Topic: DVD Burner

[TR]

Tony, Just tried all the different positions  ..get your mind out of the gutter now  .

 XYZ
 ZYX
 YXZ and so on with all the different jumper settings correct for each cable  > and all new cables.

Still sees it in the bios screen and not anywhere else........grrrrrrrr this is so frustrating  :-[


Hook

PS I wonder if I should do a repair install to see if that finds it?

[Simon]

Have you tried what I suggested, Hook?

Something else which might be worth a try is to 'uninstall' all the CD/DVD drives in Device Manager, then let Windows find them again.  I think you said they are all present on your boot screen, so maybe it has simply failed to install the CDRW, and has got confused with the drive letters?  This is only a blind guess, but I don't think it can do any harm.

[TR]

Yeah done all that Simon..ho hum  >

[Sandra]

Have you udpated to the latest mobo drivers in case its struggling with the ide controllers for some reason ?
Sorry if I suggested it before and that you have already tried it but I am a bit pushed for time today and cant re read all the thread at the moment to check  

[TR]

Just to drag this one back into life again.

After all this time I have actually cracked it  , after 12 forums countless shops etc etc.

I now have all 3 working, it was bloody easy in the end  
went into start/control panel/system/hardware/device manager/eide controllers/primary... in advance settings device 1 and typed in auto detect.


DVD Rom
DVD RW x4
Cd RW/Rom

Hookstar

[TR]

[Simon]

Mine did it automatically.  Naa na na naa na!    

Glad you got it sorted in the end, Hook.  

[TR]

Yeah but did you have ****** helping you  >

[Simon]

Can't think who you mean.  

[TR]

have just burnt a disc in under 2 mins .... now thats more like it  

[Simon]

Excellent news!    I must admit, I haven't found as much use for mine as I thought I might, but at least it fills the case up!    

[TR]

yeah but when I burn with the DVD rom it only works at 16x but with the cd rom it working at 40x so I have the best of both worlds now with DVDs at 4x and Cds at 40x  

[Sandra]

Most 16 x DVD roms read CDs at 40 x Hooky, mine does  
The older 4x and 8 x ones were slower but that has surprised me  

[TR]

Sandra.. yes it reades at the higher speeds but it doesnt burn at the high speeds, on my Pioneer x4 DVD RW/CD RW will only Back up discs at 16x.

[Sandra]

I am with you now  
I though it wasnt reading correctly, I just have my liteon 52 x CD writer and Pioneer 4 x DVD writer in and have found that to be ok for me as I heard that DVD to DVD recording on the fly wasnt a good idea