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I appologise for noy having responded earlier as I was travelling. I tried everything as suggested above but apparently the problem was with the hardware and problem was solved once I replaced it with a new dvd-writer. The amazing thing is that how quickly (apprx 6 months) the driver became useless. Thanks to all for your help and support!
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I appologise for noy having responded earlier as I was travelling. I tried everything as suggested above but apparently the problem was with the hardware and problem was solved once I replaced it with a new dvd-writer. The amazing thing is that how quickly (apprx 6 months) the driver became useless. Thanks to all for your help and support!
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I have successfully flashed the BIOS to latest update but this did not solve any of the issues mentioned above. So I will try and write a dvd and see what happens, try connecting it to different sata before tring a different device. Will keep you posted.:(
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I have successfully flashed the BIOS to latest update but this did not solve any of the issues mentioned above. So I will try and write a dvd and see what happens, try connecting it to different sata before tring a different device. Will keep you posted.:(
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I don't have any experience flashing the BIOS. I downloaded the latest update from ASUS. However ASUS website instructs that the update done via a floppy disk. I don't have a floppy disk drive on my PC. Any help appreciated.
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I don't have any experience flashing the BIOS. I downloaded the latest update from ASUS. However ASUS website instructs that the update done via a floppy disk. I don't have a floppy disk drive on my PC. Any help appreciated.
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Hi Jack, As I mentioned above I already updated the firmware and you're correct, it is version 1.02. This machine was put together not more than 6 months ago and I really have doubts that the problem has anything to do with the head being dirty. A problem I am concurrently having is that when I turn on the PC I get a blue screen saying "a problem has been detected..............the BIOS in the system is not fully ACPI compliant. Please contact your vendor for an updated BIOS" Then when I restart the PC in safe mode and then normally, everything works ok except for the DVD RW. This started happening when I downloaded a windows hotfix (to fix the windows search index error I was getting). This could be a separate issue but wanted to mention in case it may have anything to do with my DVD RW's strange performance.
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Hi Jack, As I mentioned above I already updated the firmware and you're correct, it is version 1.02. This machine was put together not more than 6 months ago and I really have doubts that the problem has anything to do with the head being dirty. A problem I am concurrently having is that when I turn on the PC I get a blue screen saying "a problem has been detected..............the BIOS in the system is not fully ACPI compliant. Please contact your vendor for an updated BIOS" Then when I restart the PC in safe mode and then normally, everything works ok except for the DVD RW. This started happening when I downloaded a windows hotfix (to fix the windows search index error I was getting). This could be a separate issue but wanted to mention in case it may have anything to do with my DVD RW's strange performance.
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First of all the game DVDs are brand new and manufacturers DVDs, earlier versions of which worked fine on this drive. Also some dvds I tried that come with pc magazines and contains data of trial software etc that previously worked on this drive do not work either. However a couple of DVD movies I tried and normal cds work. My D drive recognises the DVD Writer as "DVD RW Drive". Device manager recognises the brand name/driver of the dvd drive and indicates that the device works properly. Only when I insert a non-movie DVD in the tray, nothing happens. If I right click on the D drive then green light on the harware flashes and the windows explorer stops responding.
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First of all the game DVDs are brand new and manufacturers DVDs, earlier versions of which worked fine on this drive. Also some dvds I tried that come with pc magazines and contains data of trial software etc that previously worked on this drive do not work either. However a couple of DVD movies I tried and normal cds work. My D drive recognises the DVD Writer as "DVD RW Drive". Device manager recognises the brand name/driver of the dvd drive and indicates that the device works properly. Only when I insert a non-movie DVD in the tray, nothing happens. If I right click on the D drive then green light on the harware flashes and the windows explorer stops responding.
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I have a ASUS DRW - 2014 L1T DVD-RW installed on a Vista-32 sp1 desktop PC. Recently it has stopped reading or recognising data DVDs (game, data, etc). It does recognise and play movie DVDs or CDs though. Nothing wrong with the failed DVDs as they work fine on different PCs. When I insert a game DVD, I see the green highlight on "my computer" window indicating it is reading the , then either of 3 things happen: 1) nothing happens at all 2) nothing happens and cd tray ejects with a message "insert disc" or 3) windows explorer fails to respond I have downloaded and flashed the manufacturer's latest firmware. Nothing. I had also an issue with a certain Vista update that randomly gives me a blue screen which I will ask in another thread. I don't know whether it's a coincidence or related to this problem. Any suggestions? Thanks
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I have a ASUS DRW - 2014 L1T DVD-RW installed on a Vista-32 sp1 desktop PC. Recently it has stopped reading or recognising data DVDs (game, data, etc). It does recognise and play movie DVDs or CDs though. Nothing wrong with the failed DVDs as they work fine on different PCs. When I insert a game DVD, I see the green highlight on "my computer" window indicating it is reading the , then either of 3 things happen: 1) nothing happens at all 2) nothing happens and cd tray ejects with a message "insert disc" or 3) windows explorer fails to respond I have downloaded and flashed the manufacturer's latest firmware. Nothing. I had also an issue with a certain Vista update that randomly gives me a blue screen which I will ask in another thread. I don't know whether it's a coincidence or related to this problem. Any suggestions? Thanks
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Thought I had enough cooling but anyway. Thanks a million Dalo Harkin!
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Tried it in other slots. Didnt work. Took both out and put the one I took out and didnt work. So it is a dead ram stick. Think there is a lifetime warranty on these things and hope my local retailer takes care of it. But any idea what may have caused to go bad overnight?
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OK. Found it and changed timings as above. Reinserted the other stick. Problem reoccured. I also noticed that the VCore Voltage is 1.24V, not 2.1V. So I took out the stick again to be able to access BIOS. Anything else I should to be able to work with 4GB of RAM. I also am curious as to what happened to cause the probelem in the first place.