Pioneer DVD Burner

[James E Middleton]

Windows XP Home SP2

The CD burner in a friend's PC just died. We replaced it with a Pioneer
DVR-110; it's the first time for the PC to have a DVR. After we installed
it, we rebooted the PC, and Windows recognized the hardware and installed
drivers for it.Went to Device Manager, it's installed properly, 'device
working properly'. Tried to burn a CD, not a DVD, and Windows wouldn't do
it. Also tried a 3rd party CD burning application, still wouldn't burn. Got
'insert proper media' message. Why will Windows not burn a CD on a DVD
burner on his computer when it works on mine?

Installed with another CD ROM drive, jumpers set correctly, checked twice.

I also unplugged the secondary drive, things still wouldn't work.

I tried to open a few data CD, some would explore, with others I got 'Insert
disk in D:'

Other points to ponder. It was late, so I don't remember all the specifics,
but I put an audio CD in the drive and WMP wouldn't play it. I tried the
other CD ROM drive in the system, got a codec error message. Probably not
related....?

I'm stuck on this one, any ideas?

 

[Rich Barry]

James, you may need a firmware update. Go to Pioneer's website and see if
it's available for your Model.

 

[Guest]

The drive is probably bad. As long as the jumpers are set to master and it is
the only drive on the channel of the IDE controller then it should read
atleast. return the drive if possible.