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DVD Drivers - Does XP SP2 Cause the problems ??
I have a Pioneer DVD player and a CD rom (Philips) Read Writer.
Shortly after installing SP2 I have found continued problems with this. Often the drivers are missing. The DVD player is found now and then, The CD drivers have only been found a couple of times in the last two months. The problem appears to be random. Often I am forced into the BIOS screens at bootup and have to press the on-off switch to boot up. I cant understand what is going on. I have Norton Antivirus on all the time and always update and run weekly scans - no virus found. CAn anyone help - is it SP2 that has caused this as there seems to be many complaints about drivers here ?? |
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DVD Drivers - Does XP SP2 Cause the problems ??
Did u try replacing the CMOS battery? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ade" Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 7:23 PM Subject: DVD Drivers - Does XP SP2 Cause the problems ?? I have a Pioneer DVD player and a CD rom (Philips) Read Writer. Shortly after installing SP2 I have found continued problems with this. Often the drivers are missing. The DVD player is found now and then, The CD drivers have only been found a couple of times in the last two months. The problem appears to be random. Often I am forced into the BIOS screens at bootup and have to press the on-off switch to boot up. I cant understand what is going on. I have Norton Antivirus on all the time and always update and run weekly scans - no virus found. CAn anyone help - is it SP2 that has caused this as there seems to be many complaints about drivers here ?? |
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DVD Drivers - Does XP SP2 Cause the problems ??
No, but I thought the battery would affect the date and time if it was
running down. "Abhilash Tibrewal(MCSA)" wrote: Did u try replacing the CMOS battery? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ade" Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 7:23 PM Subject: DVD Drivers - Does XP SP2 Cause the problems ?? I have a Pioneer DVD player and a CD rom (Philips) Read Writer. Shortly after installing SP2 I have found continued problems with this. Often the drivers are missing. The DVD player is found now and then, The CD drivers have only been found a couple of times in the last two months. The problem appears to be random. Often I am forced into the BIOS screens at bootup and have to press the on-off switch to boot up. I cant understand what is going on. I have Norton Antivirus on all the time and always update and run weekly scans - no virus found. CAn anyone help - is it SP2 that has caused this as there seems to be many complaints about drivers here ?? |
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DVD Drivers - Does XP SP2 Cause the problems ??
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 05:53:02 -0800, Ade
wrote: I have a Pioneer DVD player and a CD rom (Philips) Read Writer. Shortly after installing SP2 I have found continued problems with this. Often the drivers are missing. What do you mean 'the drivers are missing'? You would have no way of knowing if drivers are missing. Are you getting an error message? Tell us EXACTLY what the error message reads. The DVD player is found now and then, The CD drivers have only been found a couple of times in the last two months. The problem appears to be random. Make sure the drive letter for the player is set to R...the writer to W...or use letters of your choice that are near the end of the alphabet. Often I am forced into the BIOS screens at bootup and have to press the on-off switch to boot up. Why? What error message are you getting? I cant understand what is going on. I have Norton Antivirus on all the time and always update and run weekly scans - no virus found. CAn anyone help - is it SP2 that has caused this as there seems to be many complaints about drivers here ?? Do you run any cameras, card readers, jump drives, etc. off the computer? Have a nice one... Trent Budweiser: Helping ugly people have sex since 1876! |
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Check to see if you have any 'alien' CD or DVD tools installed. EG Alcohol
120%, any of the CD ripper or other software. If you have Partition Magic installed consider removing that. If you are fluent with the registry, check to see if you have any GearSec or GearASPI drivers. Look in Device Manager and check to see if you have any weird controllers EG SCSI controllers that do not relate to any controllers installed in the system. Any of these being present indicates IME Gear device drivers that in the past have caused these issues for me. The best solution is to deinstall the software that installed the drivers, get things going, check for updates for the s/w and ask your self if you really need that software. My symptoms we assigned drive letters disappeared. Drive letters would not assign. Devices would not work. DVD corruptions (brand new with latest Nero) etc. etc. - Tim "Sam Jones" wrote in message ... Sorry, I don't have an answer yet, but SAME problem. I will let U know when I find a cure... but I've contacted EVERY computer expert I know with no results. I installed SP2 about 3 weeks ago (after seeing error every time I opened computer) and have had nothing but trouble ever since. I will try to uninstall the program and see what happens. Please contact "Ade" wrote: I have a Pioneer DVD player and a CD rom (Philips) Read Writer. Shortly after installing SP2 I have found continued problems with this. Often the drivers are missing. The DVD player is found now and then, The CD drivers have only been found a couple of times in the last two months. The problem appears to be random. Often I am forced into the BIOS screens at bootup and have to press the on-off switch to boot up. I cant understand what is going on. I have Norton Antivirus on all the time and always update and run weekly scans - no virus found. CAn anyone help - is it SP2 that has caused this as there seems to be many complaints about drivers here ?? |
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Tim wrote: Check to see if you have any 'alien' CD or DVD tools installed. EG Alcohol 120%, any of the CD ripper or other software. If you have Partition Magic installed consider removing that. If you are fluent with the registry, check to see if you have any GearSec or GearASPI drivers. Look in Device Manager and check to see if you have any weird controllers EG SCSI controllers that do not relate to any controllers installed in the system. Any of these being present indicates IME Gear device drivers that in the past have caused these issues for me. The best solution is to deinstall the software that installed the drivers, get things going, check for updates for the s/w and ask your self if you really need that software. My symptoms we assigned drive letters disappeared. Drive letters would not assign. Devices would not work. DVD corruptions (brand new with latest Nero) etc. etc. - Tim In summary, you're saying most third-party CD and DVD tools are incompatible with XP. Based on my (not inconsiderable) experience in this area, I agree. I tried all available updates, then purged software that still caused problems, but that left me unable to back up most games (my kids are constantly loosing CDs or leaving them at the cottage) or build some types of bootable CD. My solution is to keep an NT4 installation available and boot it for most CD and DVD burning tasks. ASPI had similar issues back in the mid nineties, but they eventually got sorted out for the most part. XP ditched ASPI in favour of MMC - it's a vastly superior API, but requires significant application redevelopment, which is why third parties keep trying to shoehorn ASPI into XP. It will be a while yet before third party developers catch up so end users can see benefits instead of headaches. Mind you, I'm still hoping someone will develop a truly XP compatible ASPI layer - that would restore my Plextor SCSI drives to full functionality. Sunny "Sam Jones" wrote in message ... Sorry, I don't have an answer yet, but SAME problem. I will let U know when I find a cure... but I've contacted EVERY computer expert I know with no results. I installed SP2 about 3 weeks ago (after seeing error every time I opened computer) and have had nothing but trouble ever since. I will try to uninstall the program and see what happens. Please contact "Ade" wrote: I have a Pioneer DVD player and a CD rom (Philips) Read Writer. Shortly after installing SP2 I have found continued problems with this. Often the drivers are missing. The DVD player is found now and then, The CD drivers have only been found a couple of times in the last two months. The problem appears to be random. Often I am forced into the BIOS screens at bootup and have to press the on-off switch to boot up. I cant understand what is going on. I have Norton Antivirus on all the time and always update and run weekly scans - no virus found. CAn anyone help - is it SP2 that has caused this as there seems to be many complaints about drivers here ?? |
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Check for firmware updates for your drives. I did yesterday for my two Lite-On drives and was surprised to find updates for both drives! The reason posted for the updates: so the drives would read/write to more file types. Dunno, maybe it will help. Treeman
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Treeman wrote: Sunny Wrote: Tim wrote: - Check to see if you have any 'alien' CD or DVD tools installed. EG Alcohol 120%, any of the CD ripper or other software. If you have Partition Magic installed consider removing that. If you are fluent with the registry, check to see if you have any GearSec or GearASPI drivers. Look in Device Manager and check to see if you have any weird controllers EG SCSI controllers that do not relate to any controllers installed in the system. Any of these being present indicates IME Gear device drivers that in the past have caused these issues for me. The best solution is to deinstall the software that installed the drivers, get things going, check for updates for the s/w and ask your self if you really need that software. My symptoms we assigned drive letters disappeared. Drive letters would not assign. Devices would not work. DVD corruptions (brand new with latest Nero) etc. etc. - Tim- In summary, you're saying most third-party CD and DVD tools are incompatible with XP. Based on my (not inconsiderable) experience in this area, I agree. I tried all available updates, then purged software that still caused problems, but that left me unable to back up most games (my kids are constantly loosing CDs or leaving them at the cottage) or build some types of bootable CD. My solution is to keep an NT4 installation available and boot it for most CD and DVD burning tasks. ASPI had similar issues back in the mid nineties, but they eventually got sorted out for the most part. XP ditched ASPI in favour of MMC - it's a vastly superior API, but requires significant application redevelopment, which is why third parties keep trying to shoehorn ASPI into XP. It will be a while yet before third party developers catch up so end users can see benefits instead of headaches. Mind you, I'm still hoping someone will develop a truly XP compatible ASPI layer - that would restore my Plextor SCSI drives to full functionality. Sunny - "Sam Jones" wrote in message ... - Sorry, I don't have an answer yet, but SAME problem. I will let U know when I find a cure... but I've contacted EVERY computer expert I know with no results. I installed SP2 about 3 weeks ago (after seeing error every time I opened computer) and have had nothing but trouble ever since. I will try to uninstall the program and see what happens. Please contact "Ade" wrote: - I have a Pioneer DVD player and a CD rom (Philips) Read Writer. Shortly after installing SP2 I have found continued problems with this. Often the drivers are missing. The DVD player is found now and then, The CD drivers have only been found a couple of times in the last two months. The problem appears to be random. Often I am forced into the BIOS screens at bootup and have to press the on-off switch to boot up. I cant understand what is going on. I have Norton Antivirus on all the time and always update and run weekly scans - no virus found. CAn anyone help - is it SP2 that has caused this as there seems to be many complaints about drivers here ??-- - Check for firmware updates for your drives. I did yesterday for my two Lite-On drives and was surprised to find updates for both drives! The reason posted for the updates: so the drives would read/write to more file types. Dunno, maybe it will help. Treeman Unfortunately Plextor has officially stated they won't be developing MMC compliant firmware for my SCSI drives. Sunny |
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