Hi. I replaced my internal TDK CD burner with a Mad Dog Dual Layer 8x +/-R and I have problems. With the TDK, if I placed a blank CD in the drive, Windows used to ask me how I wanted to burn it. I don't get any such popup with the DVD burner. However, it does play audio CDs and DVDs. It came with a Nero which I installed. Nero only lists my hardrive as a possible destination. It does however list the DVD drive as a possible source. Nothing changed after updating Nero with the latest posted patch. I think the problem lies in the driver but the Mad Dog website says that Windows driver is all I need. Any help would be much appreciated.
The following output from Belarc describes my system. One thing that surprised me is that under the hood, my Mad Dog is a Lite On and when I tried to install the latest firmware from Mad Dog, the flash utility failed with the message that it could not find a NEC ND2510A.
Thanks
Erwin
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Belarc Output
Operating System System Model
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (build 2600) VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693/A
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
800 megahertz Intel Pentium III
32 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: Giga-Byte Technology Co., LTD 693A-596B-8671
Bus Clock: 133 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. 4.51 PG 03/21/01
Drives Memory Modules c,d
61.48 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
1.19 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
JLMS XJ-HD166S [CD-ROM drive]
LITEON DVD-ROM LTD163 [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]
Disk drive -- drive 1
eUSB SD-MS-SM USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 2
IC35L060AVV207-0 [Hard drive] (61.49 GB) -- drive 0, s/n VNVB01G2R92DVG, rev V22OA63A, SMART Status: Healthy 512 Megabytes Installed Memory
Slot 'BANK_0' has 256 MB
Slot 'BANK_1' has 256 MB
Slot 'BANK_2' is Empty
Local Drive Volumes
c: (on drive 0) 61.48 GB 1.19 GB free
Controllers Display
Standard floppy disk controller
Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
Secondary IDE Channel [Controller]
VIA Bus Master IDE Controller RADEON 7000 SERIES [Display adapter]
ViewSonic GS790 [Monitor] (17.7"vis, s/n MO01715414, April 2000)
Bus Adapters Multimedia
NEC PCI to USB Enhanced Host Controller (B1)
NEC PCI to USB Open Host Controller
NEC PCI to USB Open Host Controller
VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller ESS 1969 PCI AudioDrive (WDM)
Standard Game Port