DVD burns are emtpy?

Sandok

Okay, I got a strange thing. I got a DVD burner in my old Dell 8300 and now, I took it onto a new PC and whenever I burn anything on it, I can see that htere is something on the disc (stuff was burned) but I can't read it anywhere!!! On my pc, some one elses.. No ones!

Zardon

Are you using plus rs or minus rs? have you tried different media in the burner? what way have you it set in the IDE chain? on its own, slave or master?

Sandok

Using plus DVDs (only ones which work according to dell guy). I have tried different media... Still no go! And it's a slave....

Zardon

do you know the model of the DVD burner? have you tried updating the firmware?

Judas

can you get a specific model/brand name of the burner... like Zardon said, a firmware update might be needed..

HOPEFULLY, Dell hasn't modified the drive so that it requires specific drivers/software off the orginal Dell Xp install... (i've seen this happen with some system, drives me nutz)

Also, Is there a specific reason you have it running as SLAVE... (rule of thumb, DVD/CD writers are usually best set as the priority drive, MASTER, alot of manuals state clearly that they should be master or they might produce odd problems or not even burn at all...)

Also, try and set it to PIO Mode 4 and give it whirl if your desperate (WARNING, setting to pio mode 4 will severly degrade burning preformance and will require a hell of alot of CPU/Memory and other resources)

BTW, i'm guessing that it worked completely flawlessly in the dell machine... and you put it in the new one ... from the moment you finished building the new machine, it never worked?

And make sure you try to set it up as similare to the dell machine as possible ( similare bios/IDE Channel/windows settings)

Sandok

Well in the Dell it was slave... I got it in slave here too cuz it's what my Dell had... I just did a firmware upgrade and am going to try to burn things the moment I find a DVD... The company according to dell is: NEC ND-1100A 4X DVD+R/2.4X DVD+RW

Judas

wish you luck.. hopefully all it needs is a firmware update.. HIGHLY recomment you read through the firmware upgrade prosedure carefully and thoroughly....

The_Neon_Cowboy

yep he needs updated firmware for updated media support. I burn a few coasters my self on my NEC 2510A

and burn your bvd's finalized no multi session

Zardon

I used to have a 1000 NEC drive and it needed a firmware flash, I found this guy on the net who modded the firmwares to region free and additional media speeds, worked wonders for me at the time when I got a lot of cheap 1x media, with this guys firmware it could burn to them at 2x without errors.

Its another option if you dont want to use the offical firmwares or fancy something a little different, google "nec 1100 firmware" or the like and you will see quite a few sites dealing with this.

topbob

(which is typical of dell)

Sandok

well, the drivers cleared all! I never knew there were flashes for hardware! Thx all!

Zardon

Not sure I understand, are you saying dell had proprietary modded "drivers" for an NEC 1100A? if they did, then I strongly recommend flashing the drive to a default NEC firmware to remove the need for those.

Vampyromaniac

I think he meant the firmware.