Just finished building my Dads new PC out of my old (but still quite new) parts and just used his old case with the old CD/RW and DVD/RW drives.
Got everything installed nicely and then it came to the very last thing which was Nero. Installed my new version and it just wouldn't work properly. Was very very slow and kept ejecting and taking back the tray until a DVD was inserted and then just froze up the PC until I closed the program or took the DVD back out. I figured I'd uninstall and try his older version as both drives had worked fine on it before. Same problem though.
Decided to make both drives master and give them each their own ribbon in case they were interfering with each other but still didn't solve it.
The DVD drive was a no name brand but had a web addy on the front of it in really small writing. Went to the web site and downloaded the little tool on there to see if there was a firmware update available which it turned out there was. I proceeded to update the firmware nice and easy and rebooted.
It bloody worked!! Couldn't believe that this no name, ancient drive actually still had a support site up and running. Fair enough it looks like it hasn't been updated in a decade but at least it's still there!!
Never even had to update firmware on an optical drive before :S
Got everything installed nicely and then it came to the very last thing which was Nero. Installed my new version and it just wouldn't work properly. Was very very slow and kept ejecting and taking back the tray until a DVD was inserted and then just froze up the PC until I closed the program or took the DVD back out. I figured I'd uninstall and try his older version as both drives had worked fine on it before. Same problem though.
Decided to make both drives master and give them each their own ribbon in case they were interfering with each other but still didn't solve it.
The DVD drive was a no name brand but had a web addy on the front of it in really small writing. Went to the web site and downloaded the little tool on there to see if there was a firmware update available which it turned out there was. I proceeded to update the firmware nice and easy and rebooted.
It bloody worked!! Couldn't believe that this no name, ancient drive actually still had a support site up and running. Fair enough it looks like it hasn't been updated in a decade but at least it's still there!!
Never even had to update firmware on an optical drive before :S
