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SP2 stopped my DVD drive working
I installed SP2 a while back, before I went on holiday.
On returning, I noticed that my DVD writer (NEC ND-2510a) refused to read DVDs or CDs; when I inserted a CD or DVD, for about a minute after, no light was seen on the drive and no noise occured. Only after about a minute was any noise heard or light occur. At each stage, although I could move my mouse cursor, the system was unresponsive; I couldn't bring up the task manager, activate buttons or use Windows Explorer, for example. The system only became responsive once I opened the drive using the hardware button - though sometimes, the system froze entirely at this point. After playing around with the firmware with no results, I eventually decided to uninstall SP2. Once I rebooted, the DVD writer worked straight away. Has anyone else had the same experience? If so, is there a "safe" way to apply SP2, without running into this problem again? Thanks, P. |
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SP2 stopped my DVD drive working
Paul,
If you find out what is going on let me know!!!! I have the same issue, CD and DVD/CD-RW worked fine, installed SP2 now they won't work. John "Paul Moloney" wrote: I installed SP2 a while back, before I went on holiday. On returning, I noticed that my DVD writer (NEC ND-2510a) refused to read DVDs or CDs; when I inserted a CD or DVD, for about a minute after, no light was seen on the drive and no noise occured. Only after about a minute was any noise heard or light occur. At each stage, although I could move my mouse cursor, the system was unresponsive; I couldn't bring up the task manager, activate buttons or use Windows Explorer, for example. The system only became responsive once I opened the drive using the hardware button - though sometimes, the system froze entirely at this point. After playing around with the firmware with no results, I eventually decided to uninstall SP2. Once I rebooted, the DVD writer worked straight away. Has anyone else had the same experience? If so, is there a "safe" way to apply SP2, without running into this problem again? Thanks, P. |
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