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Confused and frustrated by DVD/RAM drivers and software
I wanted to do nightly backups and decided to try a DVD/RAM drive
instead of a DVD/RW one. My W2K system was stable and bug free. I had Nero installed and an NEC ND-2500A DVD/RW drive. Life was good... Then I swapped my regular DVD/RW drive with a GSA-4082B from LG in order to do DVD/RAM discs and my problems started. My main PC use is games and I started to get crashes to the desktop in Thief3. Since it is a new game i assumed the problem was Thief, but now i get the same crashes from Age of Wonders, which i regularly played for hours without a crash. KOTOR wont even load because of some disc emulation error... Since my system was rock solid before the LG drive, i feel the problems must be related to that change. When i switched drives, the LG drive worked without changing any software (Nero and drivers from my previous DVD drive worked). Then i installed the LG software (which created a "Removeable Disc" drive), formatted a DVD/RAM disc in UDF, and copied data there. At some point, the device driver stopped workign and gave me an Error 31 so i tried the BHA advice and removed Nero and the device and reinstalled it -- at this point the drive stopped showing up at all! I was able to reinstall the drive using the windows generic CDROM drivers and i removed the BHA software but the removable disc still shows up and the drive continues to work - which confuses me. (Sorry if this is a little confusing - i have worked on this for several days and have tried so many thigns, i forget the exact order). In trying to debug this problem I am totally confused about what software i really need in order to do DVD/RAM discs. I had Nero 6 Ultra with inCD (a half dozen small programs) and LG included its own software and driver from BHA which is another 6 programs (Power DVD, Power Producer Gold, Recorder Gold, CLiP, and "DVD RAM Driver"). Windows also has its own drivers, circa 1999. Do i need a burner program and a driver or just a driver? The BHA website implies that it has problems with its software and 3rd party programs like Nero... At this point, the DVD Drive shows up as a "compact disc" in windows explorer, both as a Disk Drive and DVD/CD ROM Drive under the PRoperties-Hardware tab and i have no software from LG or Nero installed yet the drive works... If anyone can explain some of this, i would really appreciate it. |
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Mike Richter, were you born with "Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face? -------------------------------------- (Mike Richter, any Material Connection w/ Roxio?) Purple wrote: I wanted to do nightly backups and decided to try a DVD/RAM drive instead of a DVD/RW one. My W2K system was stable and bug free. I had Nero installed and an NEC ND-2500A DVD/RW drive. Life was good... Then I swapped my regular DVD/RW drive with a GSA-4082B from LG in order to do DVD/RAM discs and my problems started. My main PC use is games and I started to get crashes to the desktop in Thief3. Since it is a new game i assumed the problem was Thief, but now i get the same crashes from Age of Wonders, which i regularly played for hours without a crash. KOTOR wont even load because of some disc emulation error... Since my system was rock solid before the LG drive, i feel the problems must be related to that change. When i switched drives, the LG drive worked without changing any software (Nero and drivers from my previous DVD drive worked). Then i installed the LG software (which created a "Removeable Disc" drive), formatted a DVD/RAM disc in UDF, and copied data there. At some point, the device driver stopped workign and gave me an Error 31 so i tried the BHA advice and removed Nero and the device and reinstalled it -- at this point the drive stopped showing up at all! I was able to reinstall the drive using the windows generic CDROM drivers and i removed the BHA software but the removable disc still shows up and the drive continues to work - which confuses me. (Sorry if this is a little confusing - i have worked on this for several days and have tried so many thigns, i forget the exact order). In trying to debug this problem I am totally confused about what software i really need in order to do DVD/RAM discs. I had Nero 6 Ultra with inCD (a half dozen small programs) and LG included its own software and driver from BHA which is another 6 programs (Power DVD, Power Producer Gold, Recorder Gold, CLiP, and "DVD RAM Driver"). Windows also has its own drivers, circa 1999. Do i need a burner program and a driver or just a driver? The BHA website implies that it has problems with its software and 3rd party programs like Nero... At this point, the DVD Drive shows up as a "compact disc" in windows explorer, both as a Disk Drive and DVD/CD ROM Drive under the PRoperties-Hardware tab and i have no software from LG or Nero installed yet the drive works... If anyone can explain some of this, i would really appreciate it. How about a fresh install of Win2k? And install only the programs that came with the LG -- without Nero/InCD? (InCD and B's CLiP should not be installed together as both are packet writers.) If reinstall of win2k is not an option, try uninstall Nero/InCD, run Nero Clean Tool, uninstall/reinstall Recorder Gold/B's CLiP. Nero Clean Tool: http://www.nero.com/us/ns4_631940828445001.html |
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