Hi, i have several problems using the ND3550A, most of all interruptions in DVD play buck. i have download the NECND3550_v106.exe and i have follow all the steps to update, but i get the message (target is not found correctly). please help! what to do???
Ok that means the firmware can't find your drive. What problems are you having? Maybe a firmware update isn't required...
For one thing, if you are going to update the firmware, use a bitsetting firmware i.e. either the Liggy's Bitsetting 1.06 or the 1Y6 firmware from http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com. Then it'll bitset single-layer DVD+Rs as well as do everything else that the 1.06 firmware does. Liggy's and Dee's also has a firmware flasher that seems to be more tolerant than the NEC one. However, playback problems are almost always the result of using junk media. See my sig on that.
Thanks, Liggydee 1y6 seems to solve the interruption problems and many more. But I think I have a big problem with my XP professional. Software thought that my nd3550a was a hard disc. After flash with 1y6 it sees a DVD-R … ok. The problem is that when a DVD is in the player, it doesn't play with any player. I have to select the video ts files to play the disc. I don't know what to do. Please HELP!!!
Yeah, that's a possibility. Another is that the DVD software itself may have gone flaky. PowerDVD reliably goes bonkers on any PC I use, and I'll bet a lot of the other players are like that too. I don't think it's the fault of your drive though. Maybe uninstalling your DVD software and then reinstalling it might help.
Ok I think I am having the same problem as you and maybe you can help me if you have gotten further then me. I have a NEC 3550A setup as a external hardrive and it is plugged into my Dell 1100 by usb 2.0. I burn on TDK dvds and Veibatum DVDs. It begins burning and then an error pops up and it stops. I use Alchol 120% and Nero 7.0 Ultra. I went to the NEC website and saw that I was running 1.5 and that 1.6 is the latest so I downloaded there upgrader and ran it. Well it asks to restart your computer so I let it. When it started back up it now says that my burner is now a Mass storage device. So I can no longer burn with it. How can I get it back to a burner. Is this the same problem that you are having? Any advice?
Last think may be help! Where con i find a spatial software (driver)for ND3550A? Is there one? At the momment it works with windows drivers. Thanks
To SVTSkippy. press start, options, control panel, system, devices, device control, select device CD/DVD and double click on ND3550A. Select software (driver). I see this: 1/7/2001 5.1.2535.0 Microsoft Windows XP Publisher (Europe) With this windows software ND3550A works good.
