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DVD Writer not recognized after upgrading to Vista
I just installed Windows Vista and my DVD writer is now recognized as a
CD-Rom rather than a DVD writer. I have tried deleting the device and rebooting but it comes back as a CD-rom. It worked correctly under Media Center 2005 before the upgrade and was the drive I used for the Vista Home Premium upgrade. The device will still play DVD's in Media Player but in Windows DVD Maker, the dropdown DVD burner list is blank and in Media Center when I try to burn I get a prompt that says CD/DVD recorder required with a retry and cancel option. My writer is a Samsung SH-S182M and in device manager it shows up as that model number, but it says that it is a SCSI CD-Rom Device even though it is an IDE DVD writer. The driver it shows is cdrom.sys and if I try to find a new driver it shows that I have the proper driver installed. The disk that came with the writer doesn't appear to have a driver on it and Samsung's web site is of no help. I'm stumped. Can anyone help? -- John P |
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DVD Writer not recognized after upgrading to Vista
John P wrote:
I just installed Windows Vista and my DVD writer is now recognized as a CD-Rom rather than a DVD writer... See the thread 'Issues with CD/DVD Rom device driver' from this morning, and look at the post from Rick Rogers. |
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DVD Writer not recognized after upgrading to Vista
hi,
see my answer to the nec 3500 thread below - I spent some time researching this problem and it turned out to be wrong EIDE controller driver issue. It was recognized as an SCSI device. When I replaced it with plain Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller driver the problem was solved. Also installing third-party RAID device driver (jmicron etc) causes the same problem. Best regards, w. |
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DVD Writer not recognized after upgrading to Vista
I had already tried this solution. There was a Lower filters entry, but not
an upper filters one. I deleted the lower filters entry, rebooted, and no change. -- John P "Don" wrote: John P wrote: I just installed Windows Vista and my DVD writer is now recognized as a CD-Rom rather than a DVD writer... See the thread 'Issues with CD/DVD Rom device driver' from this morning, and look at the post from Rick Rogers. |
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DVD Writer not recognized after upgrading to Vista
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I had looked at this thread, but I thought it didn't apply because it was a different drive and a different motherboard. Maybe that isn't important. My motherboard is a GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3. I'm not sure I completely understand your response. Any chance you can give me some details on what I should look for and/or change in the BIOS? It would be greatly appreciated. -- John P "sp00n" wrote: hi, see my answer to the nec 3500 thread below - I spent some time researching this problem and it turned out to be wrong EIDE controller driver issue. It was recognized as an SCSI device. When I replaced it with plain Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller driver the problem was solved. Also installing third-party RAID device driver (jmicron etc) causes the same problem. Best regards, w. |
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DVD Writer not recognized after upgrading to Vista
firstly open the device manager and check IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers. There
should be few ATA channels listed and something like Intel(R) ICH8 2 port Serial ATA Storage Controller - 2825 (I have two of these, second one is 4 port and 2820). And there should be at least one Parallel ATA (or IDE) controller - in my case it is jmicron device as 965 chipset has only SATA built-in. After clean installation that IDE controller was detected as something like SCSI RAID device. The correct driver for that controller is "Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller" - you can update the driver manually and choose it from the list. I was trying to install new drivers for my jmicron IDE controller but it always ended up with cd/dvd writing being disabled. If you need a step-by-step guide please let me know, also tell me what devices can you see in IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers of Device Manager. Regards w. |
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DVD Writer not recognized after upgrading to Vista
Upon opening device manager, under IDE, I have 2 ATA Channel 0 entries, 2 ATA
Channel 1 entries, and the two Intel(R) ICH8 entries you describe below (2825 & 2820). Those are all the entries that are there, no parallel ATA or IDE entry. Any idea how to proceed? -- John P "sp00n" wrote: firstly open the device manager and check IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers. There should be few ATA channels listed and something like Intel(R) ICH8 2 port Serial ATA Storage Controller - 2825 (I have two of these, second one is 4 port and 2820). And there should be at least one Parallel ATA (or IDE) controller - in my case it is jmicron device as 965 chipset has only SATA built-in. After clean installation that IDE controller was detected as something like SCSI RAID device. The correct driver for that controller is "Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller" - you can update the driver manually and choose it from the list. I was trying to install new drivers for my jmicron IDE controller but it always ended up with cd/dvd writing being disabled. If you need a step-by-step guide please let me know, also tell me what devices can you see in IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers of Device Manager. Regards w. |
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Same problem for me - fixed
Hi John, I had exactly the same problem as you and just fixed it. Hopefully this works for you...
Look in Device Manager under 'Storage Controllers'. I had two listed there; 1 Gigabyte and 1 Microsoft... Uninstall the Gigabyte one - and tick the Delete driver option in the confirm box. Then go to your DVD/CD-Rom Drives and uninstall the entry for your CD/DVD drive also (I didn't get the delete option here). Then immediately restart Vista. On restart all drivers are then reinstalled correctly and you need to do another restart. Fixed! Good Luck! EggHeadCafe.com - .NET Developer Portal of Choice http://www.eggheadcafe.com |
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Same problem for me - fixed
"James" wrote in message ...
Hi John, I had exactly the same problem as you and just fixed it. Hopefully this works for you... Look in Device Manager under 'Storage Controllers'. I had two listed there; 1 Gigabyte and 1 Microsoft... Uninstall the Gigabyte one - and tick the Delete driver option in the confirm box. Then go to your DVD/CD-Rom Drives and uninstall the entry for your CD/DVD drive also (I didn't get the delete option here). Then immediately restart Vista. On restart all drivers are then reinstalled correctly and you need to do another restart. Fixed! Good Luck! EggHeadCafe.com - .NET Developer Portal of Choice http://www.eggheadcafe.com Exactly what are we talking about here? Where is the original post that this seems to be a reply to? You need to be sure to include the original post so we can all benefit from information here... Bob |
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Same problem for me - fixed
Eggheads have no concern with 'threads'.
It's not their fault, they were born that way. -- Maxwell Bluemeanie ---- "Bob" wrote in message ... "James" wrote in message ... Hi John, I had exactly the same problem as you and just fixed it. Hopefully this works for you... Look in Device Manager under 'Storage Controllers'. I had two listed there; 1 Gigabyte and 1 Microsoft... Uninstall the Gigabyte one - and tick the Delete driver option in the confirm box. Then go to your DVD/CD-Rom Drives and uninstall the entry for your CD/DVD drive also (I didn't get the delete option here). Then immediately restart Vista. On restart all drivers are then reinstalled correctly and you need to do another restart. Fixed! Good Luck! EggHeadCafe.com - .NET Developer Portal of Choice http://www.eggheadcafe.com Exactly what are we talking about here? Where is the original post that this seems to be a reply to? You need to be sure to include the original post so we can all benefit from information here... Bob |
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