I just got a NEC 2500a (Mad Dog 8x). I pulled my old TDK cdr burner (master) out and replaced it with the NEC. Windows XP recognized both drives. I inserted a regular cdrom in it and it read ok. I then inserted a commerical DVD and tried to view it with MS Media Player 9 (just installed through Windows Update). The player would not recognize that there was a DVD in the drive. I also tried PowerDVD3 witrh no luck. Nero 6 recognized the DVD, but wouldn't copy it due to copy protection. I then tried to read a regular cdrom disk in the NEC. It now wouldn't recognize it! I then installed DVD X Copy Platinum. It recognized the drive, but would not detect that a DVD has been inserted. This is also true with DVD-Clone II. However, when I ran the free DVD-Decrypter software, it immediately recognized the movie and made the image files. I used CloneDVD to burn a copy which played in my home DVD player, but again wasn't recognized by the NEC. I then made the NEC the slave and the cdr the master. No luck. I put the master on the end of the IDE cable and the NEC slave in the middle. No change. If I put just the NEC as the only drive set as master and removed the cdr drive, the NEC wouldn't recognize a DVD or CDR and Media Player's DVD play option was greyed out. I followed the FAQ suggestion about making sure that DMA is enabled and that the 2 drives were recognized in the Device Manager. What's going wrong? Please make some suggestion. Thanks.
Hi, An ASPI update may help and certainly couldn't hurt. Here's a good link for the download and instructions: http://forceaspi18.w.interia.pl/ Have you updated the firmware on your drive? That may help as well so here's another good link: http://forum.rpc1.org/portal.php Let us know if this helps
Try taking out your cdr completely. Uninstall the driver for the NEC drive, reboot and let XP re-install.
The situation is strange. I got a message from Mag Dog to boot into Safe Mode, remove the cdr and dvd-r drive references and reboot. If I do that both my cdr drive and the dvd drive can read regular cdroms and the DVD can read a DVD burned with photographs. However, as soon as I insert a DVD movie, NEITHER drive will read anything with a file manager. I can watch the DVD using PowerDVD 5 before and after the movie insertion. Nero 6.3.1.7 will recognize the DVD drive and burn a data disk. DVD-Decrypter 3.2.2.0 also has no problem recognizing a movie or data disk. DVD-CLONE II 2.3 demo will not recognize a movie that has been inserted. Since neither drive will read cds anymore after inserting a movie, I have to repeat the Safe Mode procedure to get them to work! Also, Windows XP Explorer has an icon for a DVD-RW drive before a movie and a CD-R for the drive afterwards. What's going on here????
Try refreshing the window. Sometime I'll get that(my burner showing up as a cd-r in my computer), so I'll close the window and re-open it and it will show up as a rw again
Correct icons are least of my worries. Inserting a movie and killing the cdr reading of both the drives is the big problem.
For the Xcopy software, check you pattin-couffin engine. Location should be.. C:\Program Files\321Studios\Platinum. You'll see a pcsetup icon, double click that and read the status and the revision number. Hopefull it'sll stateaton-Couffin driver ready and active...internal revision 19.. Also, beaneath the revision number, both drives will be there. Try placing a dvd in the dvd wirter and see if it recognizes. The firmware version of your drive show right after the name and model number of the drive. If you have the NEC 2500a, the newest firmware will be 1.07. THis should be updated as well. What are your system specs?
