OT:failed dvd rom firmware update

[chuck clark]

Hi,
I am sorry for the OT post and i know in advance how stupid this was..
Ok, i just did the dumbest thing i could possibly do updating the
firmware on
this dvd-rom. First off it is a pioneer 500m. I have no floppy drive
on this
box so I burned a dos bootable cd and put it in the pioneer drive and
rebooted. I put the firmware update on the bootable cd also.
So when i booted to dos, i ran the firmware update. It deleted the old
firmware fine, and then just froze, since then it could not read the
cd in the drive, since no firmware. So right now I have a dvd drive that
has no firmware and I can not boot with it installed on my machine. If i
try, the light stays on on the drive and the machine hangs 'detecting
IDE devices..'

I am not able to get into my bios set up or anything. I have no idea
how to
fix this. Any ideas?

chuck

 

[Daniel Roth]

stupid thing to do ;-)

Try attaching the DVD to another computer with a floppydrive. If it fails to
boot with the DVD set in the BIOS, set it to no unit attached on that
controller..

Then try to flash it with the new firmware.

If that fails, send it for a repair/buy a new.

 

[wojo]

I assume you can access the computer.
Can you download the Firmware upgrade from the vendor to your HDD?

 

[chuck clark]

Hi,
I should have been clearer. I am not able to boot the computer
with the drive attached, without the drive, all is fine. I have tried
on 2 boxes and 1 will let me get into the bios setup but it will not
detect the drive. So since the bios will not reconize the drive, I am
unable to update the firmware.
I have tried connecting the drive after windows boots, it lights up,
but i am unable to get the firmware program to find the drive.

Chuck

 

[wojo]

Well then the warning the firmware upgrade would have displayed saying not
to have a CD inserted during the process or drive could be permanently
damaged...or something similar to that...spoke the truth. I suspect the
drive is toast.