DVD Writer not Recognized by Vist Beta 2

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I have an ACER Aspire T650, 2.8ghz Celeron D, 1.5 gb of DDR2 Ram, AI Radeon
X1300 (256 mb), TV Wonder Pro w/out remote (this card works but I get screen
flicker and it does not work with Vista MC). I am running Vista on a 80 gb
Seagate HDD with the ole ribbon technology. Windows XP SP2 is running on a
SATA 160 gb HDD. I have to hit the boot too screen button to boot to Vista.
It would not work as a multi-boot system even after I installed the ULi
controller driver for Vista. My real problem lies in that the DVD Writer will
not write in Vista. Here are the spec's on the DVD Writer: IDE
drive...HL-DT-ST DVDRRW GWA-4164B. This DVD Writer came with the base system
when I purchased it. In Win XP it uses IMAPI Drivers and Sonic Drivers and
NTI Drivers, Arcsoft and Microsoft drivers also. I think the drive is
 
Hi David,

It looks like you and I have the same problem. I have a Panasonic 16X DVD
Writer that my system recognizes as a Toshiba drive. It worked fine in
Windows 2003 Server, but not in Vista. This makes it very hard to do anything
with Vista. I hope someone out there has a solution that will help both of us.
 
Hello Ron,

Vista is acting very strangely. This is only one example. The drive has
always showed up in the Device Manager, but inserting a disk would not cause
it to spin up and so Vista would ask me to insert a disk. In response to your
question, I decided to look at it again. I inserted a DVD and Voila!, it spun
up and read the disk. For five days it would not do this, but today it does.
This is quite disconcerting. I cannot trust it to act consistently.

Another anomaly has to do with my LAN. Sometimes it cannot find it at all,
then a day later, most (but not all) of the computers on my network
mysteriously show up. Today, on a screen that I had not touched in two days,
a computer that had not shown up two days ago was mysteriously present, and a
computer that had been there two days ago is now gone. This kind of behavior
is worse than something that just flat doesn't work. You never know what to
expect.
 
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