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Make sure you are using an 80 pin cable. XP doesn't seem to care, but Vista might. I had a similar problem with a Sony DVD drive with an Nvidia chipset on the motherboard. It wouldn't recognize it at all, and it complained about my CD writer, although it reads from it alright.
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Any solutions To Dvd writers not being recognized
well what was the "tweak"?
"Kevin Spencer" wrote: Your post saved my life, or at least a day of it, Rick. I have been having some of the same issues, and after reading your post I looked at my BIOS setup, specifically, IDE. I tweaked it, and the OS picked up the DVD RW capabilities of my Lite-On DVDRW SHW-160P6S drive. No other tweaking necessary. -- HTH, Kevin Spencer Microsoft MVP Bit Player http://unclechutney.blogspot.com Where there's a Will, there's a William. "Rick Rogers" wrote in message ... Hi, Just a thought, but with 4 different drives not working, I would suspect not the drives but the IDE controller or motherboard having a compatibility problem with Vista. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org "Bcs4" wrote in message ... As I have previously read and posted there seems to be numerous problems to many dvdwriters not being recognized or appearing in device manager as non functioning. I have 4 different dvdwriters that I have installed on a vista based pc and none of them work i have updated all firmware and been told by the manufactures that they should work. But alas all of them get code 39 errors when installed . As we get closer to release date I keep looking for solutions but none seem to appear only more identical problems as I have encountered anyone know if Microsoft is working on a solution for this problem? Luckily I have another box running xp pro so i am still able to burn but as to installing anything new on the vista pc i am at a standstill without functioning cd-roms. Please any response would be greatly appreciated Stuck in limbo |
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My Pioneer dvd writer and NEC cd drive worked with no problem with ultimate,
and then I installed pemiere, they worked for about a week and suddenly disappeared. I guess I'll reinstall Vista....drives are fine on other HD with XP "Pfarn" wrote: Make sure you are using an 80 pin cable. XP doesn't seem to care, but Vista might. I had a similar problem with a Sony DVD drive with an Nvidia chipset on the motherboard. It wouldn't recognize it at all, and it complained about my CD writer, although it reads from it alright. EggHeadCafe.com - .NET Developer Portal of Choice http://www.eggheadcafe.com |
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Any solutions To Dvd writers not being recognized
Bcs4
As I have previously read and posted there seems to be numerous problems to many dvdwriters not being recognized or appearing in device manager as non functioning. I have 4 different dvdwriters that I have installed on a vista based pc and none of them work i have updated all firmware and been told by the manufactures that they should work. But alas all of them get code 39 errors when installed . As we get closer to release date I keep looking for solutions but none seem to appear only more identical problems as I have encountered anyone know if Microsoft is working on a solution for this problem? Luckily I have another box running xp pro so i am still able to burn but as to installing anything new on the vista pc i am at a standstill without functioning cd-roms. Please any response would be greatly appreciated Stuck in limbo |
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"rrayw747" wrote: My Pioneer dvd writer and NEC cd drive worked with no problem with ultimate, and then I installed pemiere, they worked for about a week and suddenly disappeared. I guess I'll reinstall Vista....drives are fine on other HD with XP "Pfarn" wrote: Make sure you are using an 80 pin cable. XP doesn't seem to care, but Vista might. I had a similar problem with a Sony DVD drive with an Nvidia chipset on the motherboard. It wouldn't recognize it at all, and it complained about my CD writer, although it reads from it alright. EggHeadCafe.com - .NET Developer Portal of Choice http://www.eggheadcafe.com |
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I have been researching the same problem. I have two drives that Vista is not recognizing as burners. I cannot burn in Media Player or Media Center but Imgburn recognizes my DVD burner for what it is and I have used it successfully. In the device manager both drives are listed as SCSI CD ROM devices. I saw a post on the net where someone solved this by replacing the installed driver with a Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller driver. Problem is he did not explain how he did this. Can anyone help with how to find and install a standard PCI IDE driver in my Vista machine to replace the SCSI driver that is there now? "rrayw747" wrote: My Pioneer dvd writer and NEC cd drive worked with no problem with ultimate, and then I installed pemiere, they worked for about a week and suddenly disappeared. I guess I'll reinstall Vista....drives are fine on other HD with XP "Pfarn" wrote: Make sure you are using an 80 pin cable. XP doesn't seem to care, but Vista might. I had a similar problem with a Sony DVD drive with an Nvidia chipset on the motherboard. It wouldn't recognize it at all, and it complained about my CD writer, although it reads from it alright. EggHeadCafe.com - .NET Developer Portal of Choice http://www.eggheadcafe.com |
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I had the same problem with my dvd burner. it was also listed as a scsi cd
rom, but i am 99.99% sure that it is an IDE device (or maybe ATAPI, I don't really understand all the device interfaces). I installed the manual upgrade kb930194, restarted and now it works. The upgrade says it was for "optical drive utilizing a SiI Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment (PATA) chip from Silicon Image". I am not sure if that is what i had but i installed it anyway and it works now. "bjadams" wrote: I have been researching the same problem. I have two drives that Vista is not recognizing as burners. I cannot burn in Media Player or Media Center but Imgburn recognizes my DVD burner for what it is and I have used it successfully. In the device manager both drives are listed as SCSI CD ROM devices. I saw a post on the net where someone solved this by replacing the installed driver with a Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller driver. Problem is he did not explain how he did this. Can anyone help with how to find and install a standard PCI IDE driver in my Vista machine to replace the SCSI driver that is there now? "rrayw747" wrote: My Pioneer dvd writer and NEC cd drive worked with no problem with ultimate, and then I installed pemiere, they worked for about a week and suddenly disappeared. I guess I'll reinstall Vista....drives are fine on other HD with XP "Pfarn" wrote: Make sure you are using an 80 pin cable. XP doesn't seem to care, but Vista might. I had a similar problem with a Sony DVD drive with an Nvidia chipset on the motherboard. It wouldn't recognize it at all, and it complained about my CD writer, although it reads from it alright. EggHeadCafe.com - .NET Developer Portal of Choice http://www.eggheadcafe.com |
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