I can't get my DVD burner to burn DVD's. Do I need a driver and firmware? If so where can it be found. The Japanese are hiding it somewhere. Thanks.
http://forum.rpc1.org/portal.php for all your firmware needs also check aspi layer is installed correctly (google for force aspi or adaptec's site has it as well) Note-upgrading firmware is done at your own risk, read the instructions, blah blah blah Also next time you post asking for help, it would pay to offer some info such as error msgs, what programs your using, system specs, etc. Anything you think may help us help you
HI, Guidecca, I've almost same problem than you ! I have windows xp pro and the system cannot recognize the DVD-writter. It works only as a DVD Reader. Has somebody has encountered the same problem ? Has he found a solution ? Which one ? Firmware ? My dvd-writter is a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR 106D and I have installed nero 5. When I'm clicking on Choose a recorder Nero find only the image recorder and not my burner. The only software that saw my writter is Nero InfoTool that show me this: I hope somebody could help me. Sorry for my poor english. Thanks in advance, Stéphane
A couple things: If you've got burner problems, what you might need to do is to uninstall the drive from Windows, reboot and let Windows automatically reinstall the device for you. To do so, (1) Control Panel, (2) System, (3) Hardware, (4) Device Manager, (5) Expand the DVD/CD-ROM Drives entry, right click on thr troublesome drive and uninstall it. Now simply reboot and let Windows try and repair itself. ASPI, Advanced SCSI Programming Interface, is the source of enough problems with anything even remotely related to an optical drive. Note that Windows2000 and WindowsXP do NOT come with ASPI installed and many users, just starting to do more than basic activities with their drives are encountering problems left and right. ASPI is one of the simplest things to check for -- it just takes one reboot. For more information regarding ASPI see http://cd-rw.org/articles/archive/aspisetup.cfm . IMPORTANT: when checking the version numbers, all four the version numbers have to match identically otherwise the ASPI is not installed correctly/completely regardless of whatever the checker says (this is especially true for Nero's InfoTools which only checks for the presence of the files rather than matching version numbers). If the above link didn't help, pay a visit to http://www.hazza.dsl.pipex.com/faq.htm#ASPI for a step-by-step guide on getting it to work. For various firmwares pay a visit to http://forum.rpc1.org/portal.php _X_X_X_X_X_[small]ASUS A7N8X-X, XP2500+ OC'd to XP3200+ Samsung 1024MB, PC2700 OC'd to PC3200 480GB [3x160GB, 7200, 8MB] EVGA, GeForce4 Ti4600 128MB Rules and Policies: http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/2487[/small]
