"chuck clark" wrote in message
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Martin wrote:

"chuck clark" wrote in message
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Hi,
Ok, i just did the dumbest thing i could possibly do updating the
firmware on
this dvd-rom. First off it is a pioneer 500m. I have no floppy drive
on this
box so I burned a dos bootable cd and put it in the pioneer drive and
rebooted. I put the firmware update on the bootable cd also.

So when i booted to dos, i ran the firmware update. It deleted the
old
firmware fine, and then just froze, since then it could not read the
cd in the drive, since no firmware. So right now I have a dvd drive


that


has no firmware and I can not boot with it installed on my machine. If
i
try, the light stays on on the drive and the machine hangs 'detecting
IDE devices..'

I am not able to get into my bios set up or anything. I have no idea
how to
fix this. Any ideas?

chuck




Would you be able to complete the firmware update if you got the DVD-ROM
installed (temporarily) in a pc with a floppy or even a Windows 98 pc
with
DOS boot-up??

Martin.




Hi,
The computer boots fine with the drive attached. I connect the drive,
and the
computer hangs at boot. I am unable to get into the bios when it hangs.
If i set it to no device on that ide channel it will boot, but the
firmware program
can not find the drive. I don't know if i have any options left.
I also tried putting it in one of my other boxes but similar
results. I don't think
there is a way to hard reset the firmware, like to a factory default.

chuck




An idea....

Could you get an external USB type drive housing and try booting the pc with
the DVD-ROM connected via the USB??
Maybe boot with no DVD-ROM then hot-swap it.
Or can the firmware flash only be performed via the IDE bus?

Martin.