Hello, I switched from a nec1100 to the new nec2500a because I thought the drive was shot. Now I still have the same problems. Smartripper claims the files are locked and need to be played. My players do not work anymore (nvidiadvd, powerdvd etc). I reinstalled the aspi layer and dvdinfopro seems to show all of the appropriate details. the region is set correctly. DVDshrink gives me a copy protection error. I am using winxp by the way. When I click my computer and explore the dvd all of the files are there , this leads me to believe the drive is fine. Anyone have any ideas? A nice new drive that cannot read, rip or record is not very useful. Any and all sugestions are welcome, thanks Atom
Atom, which aspi layer did you install? If v4.71, use aspichk to see which ones were installed. The only ones that should be are ASPI32.SYS and WNASPI32.DLL If you have both, you could try uninstalling both optical drives, and rebooting. Upon reboot XP will find them and install the driver again. Then reboot again and see if your programs work.
Hi Atom_224, You need to get your PowerDVD working again. Once you are able to play the original movie again for a few seconds, that will unlock the drive and DVDShrink will then decrypt the movie. This happens with Shrink quite often and I assume its the same problem with Smartripper which is giving you the LOCKED error. Jerry
thank you for all of the suggestions. I have noticed an interesting thing here. I reinstalled powerdvd and it still will not play movies. Windows media player and nvidiadvd will not play either. However they do play dvds that I have burned that are missing the macrovision and region info. When i try to play a commercial disc I don't even get a wrong region error. DVDinfopro reports the drive has region control RPC-2 and the region is set to one. All of my dvds are region 1 and I have no use for reading other region dvds. I have reinstalled the drive, the aspi layer, the software. STill no luck. It is on the secondary ide channel as master. I am about ready to fire this computer out the window thanks, Atom
You shouldn't have to do this to play a dvd movie, but try this. Download DVD43(free) and let it run in the background as the decrypter. See if the movies play. They should look like they have no encryption to your players. One other thing that happened to me when I got my first DVD burner drive a while back and using PowerDVD. I had a video card with audio /video outputs that could have gone to a VCR. PowerDVD would not let me play movies. Kept telling me the disc were damaged. After exchanging the drive (got same error with new drive) and trying every dvd I owned, I got a different error. It said PowerDVD could not play the movie with the video outputs active on my video card. It took 15 movie tries to get the last error. I swapped out the card and everything has been OK since. But it sure drove me crazy for 2 weeks. Your problem sounds like its going to be something really simple or really strange. Jerry
new problem. I just tried to burn a cd thinking that it should work since my problems were dvd related. Not true. As the spinup started to burn my pc resets. I tried it three times to make sure. Now I am more confused than ever. I wonder if the dvd drive is having a conflict with the cdrw drive that is slave on the same ide channel? Atom
Atom you said you re-installed your aspi layer. Was it v4.71? If yes, try ForceASPI1.7 http://www.afterdawn.com/software/cdr_software/cdr_tools/frcaspi.cfm _X_X_X_X_X_[small]Dell 8250, Pentium 4 2.8GHz 1.5 GB RDRAM, 200GB HD TDK 840G, Sony DDU-1612 DVD-ROM XP Pro, ATI All-In-Wonder 9000 Pro[/small]
just tried forceaspi. I also tried dvd43 which was previously mentioned. Still recieving copy protection errors with nvidiadvd and powerdvd still does not play. Smartripper claims some vobs are still locked and cant rip. Of course I can't burn anyway. so i'm basically still f*cked. I did have the exact same problem with my nec1100a dvd burner last week. That is why I replaced it. Could be a power issue or something wrong with my ide controller. Any suggestions are still welcome. Thanks for trying to help me sort this one out. Maybe I should have started out in the advanced section. thanks, I'll keep you posted. Atom
Hi there Atom, welcome to our Club - I've been following along and thought it was now time to try DVD Decrypter - http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/dvd_rippers/dvd_decrypter.cfm Different programs rip in different manners - There are several settings for DVD Decrypter, we’ll try the default “File” mode first. Question - Where did you get the Patin-Cauffin driver for DVD43 ? Lastly, do you have any Roxio on your system ? Get back to me with your results - Cheers, Pete
I got the dvd43 and other needed files from afterdawn. When I tried to reinstall dvd decrypter my pc came up with a blue error screen (crashed). It mentioned something about the irq. This sure is starting to get frustrating. I won't give up though. Any other ideas? Atom
Atom, You have something else going on in your PC. A software program doesn't use or need an IRQ address. This is a hardware conflict you have going on, this explains your burner problem. It would appear that you have 2 or more hardware applications trying to use the same IRQ / DMA address. You require the services of a tech to assign addresses - Now you know where your problem resides, go get’em guy - Cheers, Pete
Hi Pete,, Like your little fishy. Atom, As Pete stated, looks like a hardware conflict now. If you only have 1 HD, put your CD writer as slave on the IDE with it. Leave the DVD burner as Master on the second IDE. See if that helps. I have seen conflicts between 2 burner drives on the same IDE. Not too often, but it does happen. Jerry
OK, looks like I don't need to rush out to the gun store. Apparently my dvd burners and my cdrw could not peacefully coexist. What was confusing is why the cdrw and my first dvd burner worked together for a year before developing a conflict. That is common with people, not so common with devices. Anyway, i swapped out the cdrw with a cheap old dvdrom drive i had laying around and all my troubles are gone. Plus I can rip with the dvdrom and save my burner. I am glad this one had a happy ending. The countless hours of beer and spewing profanities has come to an end. Thanks for all involved and for letting me think out loud. I will check back to help field some questions from others. thanks again, Atom
OK, looks like I don't need to rush out to the gun store. Apparently my dvd burners and my cdrw could not peacefully coexist. What was confusing is why the cdrw and my first dvd burner worked together for a year before developing a conflict. That is common with people, not so common with devices. Anyway, i swapped out the cdrw with a cheap old dvdrom drive i had laying around and all my troubles are gone. Plus I can rip with the dvdrom and save my burner. I am glad this one had a happy ending. The countless hours of beer and spewing profanities has come to an end. Thanks for all involved and for letting me think out loud. I will check back to help field some questions from others. thanks again, Atom
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