Ever since I installed Vista I've had CD problems. I have reinstalled a couple of times with the same problem.I have a Sony DVD-RW & a Sony CD-RW.The Cd is a slave to the DVD. The Cd has become worthless, it won't read or write.It is recognized but it can't recognize a disk.I've tried swapping different burners and Cd-Roms and it stays the same. I've un-installed the drivers and rebooted to reinstall-no joy.The DVD-RW works to a degree. It will read & write DVD's but gets problematic with data disks. (I have a lot of zip files on cd) It will start to read and copy to HDD but will quickly degrade in copy speed to a point that it no longer reads the disk.Any ideas?
Thought of that one after I posted and installed newest drivers for my Via chipset.Was realy hopfull about that but no joy. I can't think of any more drivers i need. I'll keep pokeing around-I'll get it sometime!!!
For those interested, after a clean install of Vista Ultimate-no change. Installed Xp-Both drives are working just fine. Riddle me this one Vista freaks!:w00t:
Same thing happened with me on ACER tarvelmate notebook with Phillips 8821
DVD RW. Finally found out that the drive itself required firmware update to
be compatible. ( funnily enough not listed on their support page) but the
update was included in vista upgade kit
