Hi all, Well, have been searching for an answer for an age about this issue so thought I would try here as a last resort before going back to the store with this paper weight. The system I have is a AsusP4S533-MX mobo, P4 2.4Mhz, 1535MB ram, 2xWD 320Gig Hdd's, 1x Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-112D, 1x TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS/H552A, ATI Radeon 9550, XP Home on 1 drive and XP PRO on the other drive. The issue I have here is that the 'Pioneer Drive' which is only about 6 weeks old has decided to stop reading/recognizing all DVD discs. However it will recognize CD discs and auto/manual play them. For the first few weeks there were no problems at all with this drive in any way what so-ever. As a note to things I have lloked at; 1. Cables are secure and should be as they have not been touched. 2. Have uninstalled the contrllers for the drive and restarted pc to no affect 3. DMA is selected and running in Ultra DMA2 mode. 4. All windows updates have been done. 5. In 'Event Manager' no mention of any error reports for this drive. 6. This PC IS clean of infections and so on as this is now a freash install of the XP operating systems to try and resolve this issue. (May seem excessive but needed to re-arrange partitions anyway) I just cannot find an error report anywhere to give me direction. The drive just spins for awhile. Sometimes you will see the hour Glass showing, here a few clicks (Not loud noises denoting dead drive, just read resets I suspect.) and after awhile the light goes off. Under 'My Computer' no disc is detected in the drive. Well, any ideas would be most welcome. And I will continue for about 6 more days to resolve this. If not, I'll turf the drive and get another.
Check your ASPI using Nero InfoTool. Corrupt ASPI could give you the symptoms you describe. If it is indeed corrupt you will need to go to http://radified.com/ASPI/forceaspi.htm and follow the instruction on the site to resolve the issue. If this doesn't fix the drive then it will need binned.
I still find it ridiculous that Nero requires an ASPI layer. XP doesn't install one by default, and 99% of the time, none is needed, unless you use Nero.
I agree, I've pretty much stopped using Nero...not because of this issue but I just found there are other programs that do the job just as well. I don't mind that they aren't all bundled into one suite, that just seems to become a big bulky problem to easily.
wow.. i didnt know anyone had replied. Sorry for not getting back here. thought id recieve an e-mail notification or something. Nothing wrong with the ASPI layer. as my other burner works perfectly well. This dvd burner I typed about just stopped responding to a dvd disc of any sort. Just responds to cds. I am presentlylooking for my recept which I think is also gone
An update... Strangest thing... I removed the drive that I had been having issue with leaving the drive that was working. Note I have said was. No longer!! What IS going on here. -There are no errors in the Event Viewer report. -Under Device Manager the primary IDE states that it is running in DMA 5 mode and the secondary IDE in DMA 2 mode. -The Drive that is connected is selected as Master as it always has been. I have tried the Drive at both `middle` and `end` connections on the `IDE Tape`. All I can think of here is that there must be a fault with the cable. Any thoughts on this??
last update for tonight. I have it working now. I went into the properties of the drive and selected 'AutoPlay', 'Video Files', then 'Prompt me each time to choose an action.' Apply and ok. All is normal after this. Dvd movies etc are detected. Strange. I will re-attach the other drive tomorrow and try the same thing and let you know what the result is. If this is all it is... well hell... go figure.
I suspect something larger is wrong, but if that does the trick great. I've seen some things here and on other sites that indicate the Pioneers can be a little flakey from time to time, but those who have no problems with them love them.
Yes, I was being a little optimistic. The Pioneer is dead I suspect. I can hear a faint `Shick` sound. It happens twice.. then a pause for awhile as it is spinning then the sound twice again. `Shick` wasnt a mis-type Thats what it sounds like, really. I hear the LG drive is a good un. So I may look to them for help in a replacement.
shick, shick, shick, shick LG makes good drives as well as Lite-On and Samsung...to bad BenQ threw in the towel.
