I haven't tried the drive with XP yet, simply because of problem #2, and the fact that Vista is my main OS and I don't want to be diving into my BIOS and getting the XP drive to start up every time I want to put a CD in the drive and play it. then I installed Nero 7, but that's the second problem, so I won't say much about that. It would read every CD or DVD put in it, and burn CDs and DVDs with nary a problem.
For about ten or so months, the drive worked an absolute dream. Up until September this year, I used Windows XP (SP2), which I've still got on my second hard drive. The drive itself is as old as the computer. I've got my fingers crossed that someone, somewhere, has been kind enough to upload generic DVD drivers for Vista. I've tried drivers, and the firmware update, from the Pioneer site. I've tried the method on the Microsoft help pages (go into the registry entry and delete the upper and lower limits then restart) that everyone seems to love.
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For some strange reason, the driver it has chosen to install is a CD-ROM driver. You'd have thunk that Vista, being the all-powerful OS that Microsoft claims it is, would be up to the simple task of recognising a DVD drive. Whilst the computer recognises the drive is installed (shows up in Device Manager, completely free of the dreaded yellow exclamation mark), the driver Windows has chosen is incorrect, and the drive won't recognise anything that is put in it.īefore anyone comments - yes, yes, I know the motherboard has a design flaw that causes problems with large data flow over IDE, but I doubt that the current problem bears any relation to said flaw. As said in the title, it's a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-111D ATA Device, and the problem seems to be a strange one (well, two problems really, but the second is moot if the first persists): Straight to the problem - my DVD drive simply won't work.