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Why doesn't Windows recognise my DVD burner?
I suspect that this is a much wider problem! I have also had the same
problems with Vista Ultimate. I have an MSI P965 Platinum motherboard with the JMicron controller in a brand-new hiline system. The boot SATA HDD and two PATA Pioneer DVD-RW drives were connected to the JMicron controller and the other (raid 5) drives to the Intel ICHR8 controller. I had to fish around to download the JMicron driver from MSI to get the system going but everything seemed OK till I tried to burn a DVD in VideoStudio - no DVD drives showed up! They were listed as the ubiquitous "SCSI Cd-rom" drives. I could burn DVDs to them with Nero fine but not any Ulead products. So I tried MS DVDMaker and same problem! I searched for updated JMicron drivers, installed them and succeeded in crashing the system (twice) because it removed the driver from booting. There are lots of threads all over the internet on these issues - the common thread seems to be the JMicron controller no matter what the motherboard. In desperation I bought new Pioneer SATA DVD drives and shifted ALL HDDs and DVDs to the Intel ICHR8 controller, disabled the JMicron controller and suddenly everything came good. The DVD-RWs are now recognised as such by Device Manager and all programs. It would seem to me that the JMicron controller or its drivers have some bugs that have not yet been addressed. Hope this helps others with a similar problem and relieves some of the frustration. "Don" wrote: Ben wrote: Resolved! FYI I uninstalled the JMB363 device and allowed Windows to find drivers online... Hi Ben. I'm glad you fixed it, but I'm curious where the 'wrong' drivers came from in the first place. Were they leftovers from a prior XP, maybe? |
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Why doesn't Windows recognise my DVD burner?
Just as a little extra to my last post, changing the same bootup HDD to the
Intel controller and changing to 2 x SATA DVD-RWs instead of the PATA ones caused Vista to de-activate my legitimate copy of Ultimate and I had to explain at length to Microsoft what had happened to get my licenced activation back. Got the impression that they didn't believe me! Thank you Mr Gates for being so generous with my GENUINE copy of Vista when the problems were fundamental issues of compatibility in a new operating system. "ColinJ" wrote: I suspect that this is a much wider problem! I have also had the same problems with Vista Ultimate. I have an MSI P965 Platinum motherboard with the JMicron controller in a brand-new hiline system. The boot SATA HDD and two PATA Pioneer DVD-RW drives were connected to the JMicron controller and the other (raid 5) drives to the Intel ICHR8 controller. I had to fish around to download the JMicron driver from MSI to get the system going but everything seemed OK till I tried to burn a DVD in VideoStudio - no DVD drives showed up! They were listed as the ubiquitous "SCSI Cd-rom" drives. I could burn DVDs to them with Nero fine but not any Ulead products. So I tried MS DVDMaker and same problem! I searched for updated JMicron drivers, installed them and succeeded in crashing the system (twice) because it removed the driver from booting. There are lots of threads all over the internet on these issues - the common thread seems to be the JMicron controller no matter what the motherboard. In desperation I bought new Pioneer SATA DVD drives and shifted ALL HDDs and DVDs to the Intel ICHR8 controller, disabled the JMicron controller and suddenly everything came good. The DVD-RWs are now recognised as such by Device Manager and all programs. It would seem to me that the JMicron controller or its drivers have some bugs that have not yet been addressed. Hope this helps others with a similar problem and relieves some of the frustration. "Don" wrote: Ben wrote: Resolved! FYI I uninstalled the JMB363 device and allowed Windows to find drivers online... Hi Ben. I'm glad you fixed it, but I'm curious where the 'wrong' drivers came from in the first place. Were they leftovers from a prior XP, maybe? |
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Why doesn't Windows recognise my DVD burner?
THIS FIXED MY IDENTICAL PROBLEM Hi Just writing to confirm I had the same problem and the solution was to download and run the updated jmicron drivers from: ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/jmb36x/Win2k_xp_Vista/ that's the short of it. The long of it In a little more detail I experienced the very same problem. I had an ide dvd writer that would write with Nero and yet did not exist as far a windows dvd maker was concerned. It too was listed as an SCSI cd rom and only had four tabs on offer under properties. I found what was need was a driver update which you can get from this site. ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/jmb36x/Win2k_xp_Vista/ I have gigbyte GA-P35-DS3R motherboard. I didn't realise that I had the offending JMB363 chip anywhere in my computer as there is nothing in the motherboard manual about it. So, First I went to gigabyte site and downloaded anything that looked as if it was an update, but no luck. I knew from the motherboard manual that I had the intel p35 express and ich9r chip so I went to intel and downloaded the latest drivers from there. still no luck. At this point I had already figure to hell with it I'm buying a sata dvd drive. When I was looking at the motherboard review on hardwaresecrets.com (FYI A VERY GOOD SITE for beginngers like myself) I found out I did have the offending jmicron device after all - disguised a gigabyte sata contoller. well I dowloaded the file found the application within the file and ran it. Now the drive works as it should; windows dvd maker recognises the drive; and I'm wondering why I bothered because it ain't that great an application in the the first place ( but it is neccessary if you choose to use windows media center tele recorder instead of something sensible like sagetv). So if you're new to this computer building, as I am, if your problem reads identical to the everyone elses chances are you have the JMB363 chip rebranded in such a way as to make you think the mother board manufacturer made the chip themselves. Chances are jmicro did and chances are you need the update. Hope this helps. -- robert de nerdo Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |