DVD-RW not working in Vista

Posted: 07-31-2007, 06:16 PM

Dave

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Iv ran out of ideas myself and have done all the ones Iv seen so I hope there
may be a solution on here.

Screenshots:

http://rogueserv.net/albums/userpics/1~0.jpg
http://rogueserv.net/albums/userpics/2~0.jpg
Few Specs:

Mobo - P5W DH Deluxe
Sound - Creative SB Audigy 4
Gcard - 8800GTS
Drive - LiteOn DH-20A3P (claims that it is vista compatible)

Iv got Vista Business Installed on my system and everything else works fine,
but the DVD-RW I have does not seem to want to read any media at all. It's a
brand new drive and Iv tested it out on XP (I dual boot) and it works, iv
also tried 2 other DVD-ROM drives that worked in XP, but not on vista.

I have uninstalled the device and clicked scan for hardware, reinstalled and
restarted.

I have been in the registry to delete 'upperfilters' and 'lowerfilters' but
they were not there.

Iv uninstalled a windows update that supposedly can cause issues with
optical drives (KB936825 I think it was)

Mobo has had the BIOS updated, the drive has the best firmware out, Iv even
tried stopping all services except microsoft services and restarting.

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Neil

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Re: DVD-RW not working in Vista

Posted: 08-01-2007, 12:24 AM

"Dave" <Dave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5AB12205-C828-44B2-8CCD-577614E753F0@microsoft.com...

>
> Mobo - P5W DH Deluxe
> Sound - Creative SB Audigy 4
> Gcard - 8800GTS
> Drive - LiteOn DH-20A3P (claims that it is vista compatible)
>
> Iv got Vista Business Installed on my system and everything else works
> fine,
> but the DVD-RW I have does not seem to want to read any media at all. It's
> a
> brand new drive and Iv tested it out on XP (I dual boot) and it works, iv
> also tried 2 other DVD-ROM drives that worked in XP, but not on vista.
>

I have had three LiteOn drives (not this model they were SH-16A7S) and all
of them failed to recognise a significant fraction of my DVD movies. I
don't know whether they would have worked under XP as I don't have any XP
computers with SATA interfaces. My inclination would be to say that they
would not have done as the problem was one of the drive simply not
recognising that there was media of any sort inserted.

I have since swapped my drive for a Toshiba/Samsung drive (SH-S203) and all
appears to be well. I have tested the movies which the LiteOn drives found
most problematic, and they seem to work fine in this new drive.

If you can get your supplier to exchange the drive, try swapping for another
make; I have little confidence in these new LiteOn drives. [While I was
trying to get mine exchanged I was using a 10-year-old Hitachi DVD ROM drive
which was recognising everything perfectly - just as it had done in my old
computer].

Neil

Dave

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Re: DVD-RW not working in Vista

Posted: 08-01-2007, 11:02 AM

Iv already tried other drives with the exact same problem all different
makes, one is Sony the other is a Samsung.

"Neil" wrote:

> I have had three LiteOn drives (not this model they were SH-16A7S) and all
> of them failed to recognise a significant fraction of my DVD movies. I
> don't know whether they would have worked under XP as I don't have any XP
> computers with SATA interfaces. My inclination would be to say that they
> would not have done as the problem was one of the drive simply not
> recognising that there was media of any sort inserted.
>
> I have since swapped my drive for a Toshiba/Samsung drive (SH-S203) and all
> appears to be well. I have tested the movies which the LiteOn drives found
> most problematic, and they seem to work fine in this new drive.
>
> If you can get your supplier to exchange the drive, try swapping for another
> make; I have little confidence in these new LiteOn drives. [While I was
> trying to get mine exchanged I was using a 10-year-old Hitachi DVD ROM drive
> which was recognising everything perfectly - just as it had done in my old
> computer].
>
> Neil
>
>

Marjay

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Re: DVD-RW not working in Vista

Posted: 08-01-2007, 04:32 PM

I agree with the other person's assesment of the Lite-On drive... I
used to swear by them but now they do NOT have Vista capable firmware
which is what you need to have to make the drive perform correctly.
Not software but firmware to flash the drive's BIOS with. I had a
Lite-On with my Vista and had to exchange it for a Samsung drive which
now works perfectly!!

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:16:04 -0700, Dave
<Dave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Iv ran out of ideas myself and have done all the ones Iv seen so I hope there
>may be a solution on here.
>
>Screenshots:
>
>http://rogueserv.net/albums/userpics/1~0.jpg
>http://rogueserv.net/albums/userpics/2~0.jpg
>Few Specs:
>
>Mobo - P5W DH Deluxe
>Sound - Creative SB Audigy 4
>Gcard - 8800GTS
>Drive - LiteOn DH-20A3P (claims that it is vista compatible)
>
>Iv got Vista Business Installed on my system and everything else works fine,
>but the DVD-RW I have does not seem to want to read any media at all. It's a
>brand new drive and Iv tested it out on XP (I dual boot) and it works, iv
>also tried 2 other DVD-ROM drives that worked in XP, but not on vista.
>
>I have uninstalled the device and clicked scan for hardware, reinstalled and
>restarted.
>
>I have been in the registry to delete 'upperfilters' and 'lowerfilters' but
>they were not there.
>
>Iv uninstalled a windows update that supposedly can cause issues with
>optical drives (KB936825 I think it was)
>
>Mobo has had the BIOS updated, the drive has the best firmware out, Iv even
>tried stopping all services except microsoft services and restarting.

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