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 ??

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 ??

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 ??

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!

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 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 ??

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 ??

Originally Posted by Sunny

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

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