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Margaret Wilson wrote:
"Edward Diener No Spam" wrote in message ink.net... More than one software package did not work but I will download Nero trial version and try it also. As others have stated, Nero is a very good program. Not all software is compatible with all drives, take CDR-Win for an example. Further, DVD burners can be picky about the media they will use. As someone else suggested, have you tried burning a CD? If you try Nero and it will not burn either a CD or DVD, I'd suspect either incompatible media or most likely, a bad drive. I will buy some CD-RWs tomorrow and try again. The amusing thing is that the DVD-RWs which I bought come from the same company that manufactures the drive, Samsung. |
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Mike Richter, were you born with "Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face? -------------------------------------- http://tinyurl.com/6eldj (No Mikey S-lickers have been able to prove ANY of the above is a LIBEL) ( ) ( -- despite Mikey claimed to have proof of misquotes !! ) ' Edward Diener No Spam wrote: I had never used a DVD Burner before, but decided to by an IDE one from NewEgg. The DVD is the Samsung TS-H552U OEM version. I installed it on my computer, an Abit At7, and the BIOS shows it. I booted into Win2k and I can see it in the Device Manager fine. When I put in a CD or DVD I can read the drive and see the contents in Explorer. So far, so good. I already checked and I have the latest firmware for the drive. I had bought along with the drive Samsung Pleomax DVD-RW 4x DVDs. The drive specifically states that it supports DVD-RW(4x). I put one of the disks in the drive and attempt to Burn some files on the DVD. I have never done this before so assume it should be easy. I tried using two different software programs for it but one completely hangs and hangs Win2k and the other says it is copy the image to the DVD but nothing ever happens and the progress bar stays at 0. snip The only other possibility that something is wrong is that VIA has a VIA Bus Master PCI IDE Utility which shows what drives are off of the two IDE channels of my mobo. When I double-click on this utility in my system tray, no drives are shown. Maybe this denoted some problem. But like I said, when I look in the BIOS I can see my drives and Win2k pick them up. The other possibility is that when I installed this DVD writer I did not remove my previous DVD-ROM drive because I wanted to make sure this worked first before I did. Is there a problem having more than one CD/DVD drive under Win2k ? The software with which I tried to burn the DVD always recognizes the particular Samsung drive, so I do not think it is getting confused between my DVD drives. (Don't think the Samsung is defective. Via chipset drivers often cause problems with optical drives. Is your Via chipset drivers up-to-date?) Go into the BIOS and double check the DVD drives are listed and set to Auto or Use DMA. Boot into Safe mode. In Device Manager, remove/delete all the DVD/CD drives. Reboot and check the drives are running in DMA mode: Control Panel - System - Hardware tab - Device Manager) and go into IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers. Double click "Primary/Secondary IDE Channel" (the channel the DVD drives are connected to). Then click the "Advanced Settings" tab and check the Current Transfer mode is DMA for both Device 0 and Device 1. |
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smh wrote:
. -------------------------------------- Mike Richter, were you born with "Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face? -------------------------------------- http://tinyurl.com/6eldj (No Mikey S-lickers have been able to prove ANY of the above is a LIBEL) ( ) ( -- despite Mikey claimed to have proof of misquotes !! ) ' Edward Diener No Spam wrote: I had never used a DVD Burner before, but decided to by an IDE one from NewEgg. The DVD is the Samsung TS-H552U OEM version. I installed it on my computer, an Abit At7, and the BIOS shows it. I booted into Win2k and I can see it in the Device Manager fine. When I put in a CD or DVD I can read the drive and see the contents in Explorer. So far, so good. I already checked and I have the latest firmware for the drive. I had bought along with the drive Samsung Pleomax DVD-RW 4x DVDs. The drive specifically states that it supports DVD-RW(4x). I put one of the disks in the drive and attempt to Burn some files on the DVD. I have never done this before so assume it should be easy. I tried using two different software programs for it but one completely hangs and hangs Win2k and the other says it is copy the image to the DVD but nothing ever happens and the progress bar stays at 0. snip The only other possibility that something is wrong is that VIA has a VIA Bus Master PCI IDE Utility which shows what drives are off of the two IDE channels of my mobo. When I double-click on this utility in my system tray, no drives are shown. Maybe this denoted some problem. But like I said, when I look in the BIOS I can see my drives and Win2k pick them up. The other possibility is that when I installed this DVD writer I did not remove my previous DVD-ROM drive because I wanted to make sure this worked first before I did. Is there a problem having more than one CD/DVD drive under Win2k ? The software with which I tried to burn the DVD always recognizes the particular Samsung drive, so I do not think it is getting confused between my DVD drives. (Don't think the Samsung is defective. Via chipset drivers often cause problems with optical drives. That is possible, but I have no problems reading from either drive. Just writing to the Samsung DVD Writer. Is your Via chipset drivers up-to-date?) Yes. Go into the BIOS and double check the DVD drives are listed and set to Auto or Use DMA. Listed as Auto Boot into Safe mode. In Device Manager, remove/delete all the DVD/CD drives. Reboot and check the drives are running in DMA mode: Control Panel - System - Hardware tab - Device Manager) and go into IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers. Double click "Primary/Secondary IDE Channel" (the channel the DVD drives are connected to). Then click the "Advanced Settings" tab No such thing. Only General, Driver, and Resources when looking at Primary Ultra DMA Channel properties. and check the Current Transfer mode is DMA for both Device 0 and Device 1. Where is this ? I do not see it. There is a Via Bus Master PCI IDE Controller tray icon. Looking at the two DVD drives on my primary controller their mode is Ultra DMA Mode 2 (ATA 33). |
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Mike Richter, were you born with "Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face? -------------------------------------- http://tinyurl.com/6eldj (No Mikey S-lickers have been able to prove ANY of the above is a LIBEL) ( ) ( -- despite Mikey claimed to have proof of misquotes !! ) ' Edward Diener No Spam wrote: smh wrote: Edward Diener No Spam wrote: I had never used a DVD Burner before, but decided to by an IDE one from NewEgg. The DVD is the Samsung TS-H552U OEM version. I installed it on my computer, an Abit At7, and the BIOS shows it. I booted into Win2k and I can see it in the Device Manager fine. When I put in a CD or DVD I can read the drive and see the contents in Explorer. So far, so good. I already checked and I have the latest firmware for the drive. I had bought along with the drive Samsung Pleomax DVD-RW 4x DVDs. The drive specifically states that it supports DVD-RW(4x). I put one of the disks in the drive and attempt to Burn some files on the DVD. I have never done this before so assume it should be easy. I tried using two different software programs for it but one completely hangs and hangs Win2k and the other says it is copy the image to the DVD but nothing ever happens and the progress bar stays at 0. snip The only other possibility that something is wrong is that VIA has a VIA Bus Master PCI IDE Utility which shows what drives are off of the two IDE channels of my mobo. When I double-click on this utility in my system tray, no drives are shown. Maybe this denoted some problem. But like I said, when I look in the BIOS I can see my drives and Win2k pick them up. The other possibility is that when I installed this DVD writer I did not remove my previous DVD-ROM drive because I wanted to make sure this worked first before I did. Is there a problem having more than one CD/DVD drive under Win2k ? The software with which I tried to burn the DVD always recognizes the particular Samsung drive, so I do not think it is getting confused between my DVD drives. (Don't think the Samsung is defective. Via chipset drivers often cause problems with optical drives. That is possible, but I have no problems reading from either drive. Just writing to the Samsung DVD Writer. That's a problem, isn't it? I recall a report burning was possible without error, but the resulting burn gives crc errors when copying to hard disk. Think that problem was fixed by either installing the latest Via chipset drivers or replaced with Windows drivers. Is your Via chipset drivers up-to-date?) Yes. Go into the BIOS and double check the DVD drives are listed and set to Auto or Use DMA. Listed as Auto Boot into Safe mode. In Device Manager, remove/delete all the DVD/CD drives. Reboot and check the drives are running in DMA mode: Control Panel - System - Hardware tab - Device Manager) and go into IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers. Double click "Primary/Secondary IDE Channel" (the channel the DVD drives are connected to). Then click the "Advanced Settings" tab No such thing. Only General, Driver, and Resources when looking at Primary Ultra DMA Channel properties. That's the usual location, but not always depending on the system. and check the Current Transfer mode is DMA for both Device 0 and Device 1. Where is this ? I do not see it. There is a Via Bus Master PCI IDE Controller tray icon. Looking at the two DVD drives on my primary controller their mode is Ultra DMA Mode 2 (ATA 33). That's the "usual" location for your system. g Try run Nero "Get System Info" (instead of Test Drive which checks "disc", not drive). Go thru the tabs and see if anything looks "unusual". Does the Configuration tab show any? Does the Drive tab list the Samsung with "(1:0) ..." string? |
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"Edward Diener No Spam" wrote in message ink.net... I had never used a DVD Burner before, but decided to by an IDE one from NewEgg. The DVD is the Samsung TS-H552U OEM version. I installed it on my computer, an Abit At7, and the BIOS shows it. I booted into Win2k and I can see it in the Device Manager fine. When I put in a CD or DVD I can read the drive and see the contents in Explorer. So far, so good. I already checked and I have the latest firmware for the drive. I had bought along with the drive Samsung Pleomax DVD-RW 4x DVDs. The drive specifically states that it supports DVD-RW(4x). I put one of the disks in the drive and attempt to Burn some files on the DVD. I have never done this before so assume it should be easy. I tried using two different software programs for it but one completely hangs and hangs Win2k and the other says it is copy the image to the DVD but nothing ever happens and the progress bar stays at 0. The first program I tried to use was Paragon ISO Burner. This program just hangs once I get to the part where it attempts to read the blank DVD in the drive in preparation for asking me what files I want to burn on the DVD. After that I can not even open the drive case manually to take out the drive, nor can I kill the software. I am able to shut down the system, and then remove the DVD from the drive once I boot up. The second program I tried was DeepBurner Free version. This gets to the point where it says Creating CD image, then the Device Buffer progress bar is filled, but nothing ever happens as far as Write Progress is concerned, nor do I see the DVD light go on at any time. Here I can at least Cancel and end the program, and then remove my DVD disk from the drive. The only other possibility that something is wrong is that VIA has a VIA Bus Master PCI IDE Utility which shows what drives are off of the two IDE channels of my mobo. When I double-click on this utility in my system tray, no drives are shown. Maybe this denoted some problem. But like I said, when I look in the BIOS I can see my drives and Win2k pick them up. The other possibility is that when I installed this DVD writer I did not remove my previous DVD-ROM drive because I wanted to make sure this worked first before I did. Is there a problem having more than one CD/DVD drive under Win2k ? The software with which I tried to burn the DVD always recognizes the particular Samsung drive, so I do not think it is getting confused between my DVD drives. I though using this drive would be easy, and am disappointed that it does not work. I had previously bought two Samsung 160 GB hard drives and they have worked flawlessly so far. Does any CD/DVD guru have any idea what is going wrong here ? Try running with only the DVD recorder connected. If that works, try running with the DVD devices on seperate IDE controllers. You will find this advantageous if you ever come to copying disks from the reader to the writer. |
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smh wrote:
. -------------------------------------- Mike Richter, were you born with "Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face? -------------------------------------- http://tinyurl.com/6eldj (No Mikey S-lickers have been able to prove ANY of the above is a LIBEL) ( ) ( -- despite Mikey claimed to have proof of misquotes !! ) ' Edward Diener No Spam wrote: smh wrote: Edward Diener No Spam wrote: I had never used a DVD Burner before, but decided to by an IDE one from NewEgg. The DVD is the Samsung TS-H552U OEM version. I installed it on my computer, an Abit At7, and the BIOS shows it. I booted into Win2k and I can see it in the Device Manager fine. When I put in a CD or DVD I can read the drive and see the contents in Explorer. So far, so good. I already checked and I have the latest firmware for the drive. I had bought along with the drive Samsung Pleomax DVD-RW 4x DVDs. The drive specifically states that it supports DVD-RW(4x). I put one of the disks in the drive and attempt to Burn some files on the DVD. I have never done this before so assume it should be easy. I tried using two different software programs for it but one completely hangs and hangs Win2k and the other says it is copy the image to the DVD but nothing ever happens and the progress bar stays at 0. snip The only other possibility that something is wrong is that VIA has a VIA Bus Master PCI IDE Utility which shows what drives are off of the two IDE channels of my mobo. When I double-click on this utility in my system tray, no drives are shown. Maybe this denoted some problem. But like I said, when I look in the BIOS I can see my drives and Win2k pick them up. The other possibility is that when I installed this DVD writer I did not remove my previous DVD-ROM drive because I wanted to make sure this worked first before I did. Is there a problem having more than one CD/DVD drive under Win2k ? The software with which I tried to burn the DVD always recognizes the particular Samsung drive, so I do not think it is getting confused between my DVD drives. (Don't think the Samsung is defective. Via chipset drivers often cause problems with optical drives. That is possible, but I have no problems reading from either drive. Just writing to the Samsung DVD Writer. That's a problem, isn't it? I recall a report burning was possible without error, but the resulting burn gives crc errors when copying to hard disk. Think that problem was fixed by either installing the latest Via chipset drivers or replaced with Windows drivers. I am querying on the Via Arena for my chipset. I saw other posts there, regarding DVD burner problems, about uninstalling the Via drivers and just using the Windows drivers, but I want to make sure before I do so and also understand which drivers I uninstall and how I do so. I do see a "Via Bus Master Ultra ATA Controller" in Device Manager and I do see a "Via Bus Master Ultra ATA Driver" listed in the Add/Remove programs applet, but before I uninstall that I want to make sure it is correct to do so. I did install, very early on, a Via IDE Miniport Driver in order to fix a problem which Via mentioned regarded my southbridge, the VT8233A, and Iomega ZIP 100/250 drives. I see that Via now says this driver is a legacy driver, but I could not set under Win2k the recommended PIO Mode 3 for my IOMega Zip/250 drive ( on my secondary IDE channel ) without it, and the drive ran very slow without that Win2k setting. So I kept it installed. Is your Via chipset drivers up-to-date?) Yes. Go into the BIOS and double check the DVD drives are listed and set to Auto or Use DMA. Listed as Auto Boot into Safe mode. In Device Manager, remove/delete all the DVD/CD drives. Reboot and check the drives are running in DMA mode: Control Panel - System - Hardware tab - Device Manager) and go into IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers. Double click "Primary/Secondary IDE Channel" (the channel the DVD drives are connected to). Then click the "Advanced Settings" tab No such thing. Only General, Driver, and Resources when looking at Primary Ultra DMA Channel properties. That's the usual location, but not always depending on the system. and check the Current Transfer mode is DMA for both Device 0 and Device 1. Where is this ? I do not see it. There is a Via Bus Master PCI IDE Controller tray icon. Looking at the two DVD drives on my primary controller their mode is Ultra DMA Mode 2 (ATA 33). That's the "usual" location for your system. g Try run Nero "Get System Info" (instead of Test Drive which checks "disc", not drive). Go thru the tabs and see if anything looks "unusual". Does the Configuration tab show any? The configuration tab shows the DVD drives but says Unknown Adapter. I do not know if this means anything. Does the Drive tab list the Samsung with "(1:0) ..." string? The Drive tab lists the Samsung as (0:1). I moved it to be the slave drive off of my primary IDE controller. The Toshiba is listed as (0:0). It is the master drive off of may primary IDE controller. I have a feeling that you are on the right track regarding Via drivers and that I need to somehow remove any Via IDE drivers and let Win2K SP4 drivers only control the IDE channel. |
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"Edward Diener No Spam" wrote in
message ink.net... Margaret Wilson wrote: "Edward Diener No Spam" wrote in message ink.net... More than one software package did not work but I will download Nero trial version and try it also. As others have stated, Nero is a very good program. Not all software is compatible with all drives, take CDR-Win for an example. Further, DVD burners can be picky about the media they will use. As someone else suggested, have you tried burning a CD? If you try Nero and it will not burn either a CD or DVD, I'd suspect either incompatible media or most likely, a bad drive. I will buy some CD-RWs tomorrow and try again. The amusing thing is that the DVD-RWs which I bought come from the same company that manufactures the drive, Samsung. You know, I just had another idea. When installing Windows Updates, have you installed the "update" for HiMat support? If so, uninstall that update. A friend installed it and a few days later noticed she could no longer burn CDs/DVDs without generating errors. Once she uninstalled the update, she could burn discs again. Also, I've not had much luck with Windows XP's disc burning capabilities. Try disabling the IMAPI service. You won't need it if you're using third-party software anyway. Regards, Margaret |
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Edward Diener No Spam wrote:
I have a feeling that you are on the right track regarding Via drivers and that I need to somehow remove any Via IDE drivers and let Win2K SP4 drivers only control the IDE channel. Before doing that, have you checked your ASPI files? Version 4.6 suggested... aspichk.exe http://aspi.radified.com/ forceaspi.exe at the same place if needed. -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico |
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dadiOH wrote:
Edward Diener No Spam wrote: I have a feeling that you are on the right track regarding Via drivers and that I need to somehow remove any Via IDE drivers and let Win2K SP4 drivers only control the IDE channel. Before doing that, have you checked your ASPI files? Version 4.6 suggested... aspichk.exe http://aspi.radified.com/ forceaspi.exe at the same place if needed. I am not using SCSI but ATAPI IDE DVD rom drives. |
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Margaret Wilson wrote:
"Edward Diener No Spam" wrote in message ink.net... Margaret Wilson wrote: "Edward Diener No Spam" wrote in message ink.net... More than one software package did not work but I will download Nero trial version and try it also. As others have stated, Nero is a very good program. Not all software is compatible with all drives, take CDR-Win for an example. Further, DVD burners can be picky about the media they will use. As someone else suggested, have you tried burning a CD? If you try Nero and it will not burn either a CD or DVD, I'd suspect either incompatible media or most likely, a bad drive. I will buy some CD-RWs tomorrow and try again. The amusing thing is that the DVD-RWs which I bought come from the same company that manufactures the drive, Samsung. You know, I just had another idea. When installing Windows Updates, have you installed the "update" for HiMat support? How do I tell ? If so, uninstall that update. A friend installed it and a few days later noticed she could no longer burn CDs/DVDs without generating errors. Once she uninstalled the update, she could burn discs again. Also, I've not had much luck with Windows XP's disc burning capabilities. I am on Win2k. Try disabling the IMAPI service. What is IMAPI ? I do not see a Service in my list that says IMAPI. Maybe it has a different name. You won't need it if you're using third-party software anyway. For what, burning DVD disks ? I did not know that Win2k had this ability natively. Do you know where it is ? |
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