Here I start getting in over my head, but since noone else has chimed
in...and this info seems to narrow the field:
1. Read the stuff in the response you got from Emmett at MSFT.
2. It seems you may have 2 working burner devices...!
3. Does Dev Mgr or any applet in AdminTools note ANY oddities/conflicts
between the nforce and burner hdw or sftw? Addresses used, IRQs, etc.
4. Have you tried a safe-mode boot as a way of checking for driver
probs? (I have never done this, sorry.)
5. You might run the W2k sfc.exe (system file checker).
6. If you have a mainboard diagnostic you might try that; some sort of
controller problem?
7. There's a way to get W2k to recheck hdw or identify new hardware &
set it up. Can't be more explicit...
8. From the W2k CD with W2k running a command prompt you could run:
[CD]:\i386\winnt32.exe /checkupgradeonly
which with that parameter does not start an install but analyzes hdw and
issues a very useful report of potential trouble found.
9. You might reset the monitor to run on a basic VGA driver, with a low
res maybe, and see if the burner works with the nforce driver out of the
way. Not sure this is possible with the nforce card; if you have another
old videocard around you try that. You could also if you have it try the
earlier pre-update nforce drivers...
....running out of gas here... good luck
ah, ok my bad.
My original cd burner stopped working after about 1 year
of use. I had win2k the whole time and i thought the drive
was destroyed. So i bought a new one and installed it.
THat too did not work. I checked device manager and it
said the device is working properly. I think the original
burner stopped working after i updated my nforce 2 drivers
from the nvidia site. if the nvidia driver is to blame,
which one should i replace thats causing the error. THe
original burner stopped working about 2 months ago so
event viewer wont help
-----Original Message-----
You might check the manufacturer's website for a W2k
driver(s). Or make
sure you've got the right ones from the CD that came with
the drive;
drivers for older NT or W9x systems don't work w/W2k.
[Apologies if
you've done all that.]
You don't say whether the device was working fine under
W2k & suddenly
failed (something broke/loosened maybe) or you upgraded
from Wxyz to W2k
and can't get it to work. Perhaps a more detailed
description of the
whole situation, including any system mods in the way of
new
devices/apps/sysupdates made prior to problem appearance,
would help
somebody here help you. You also don't say whether you've
looked at
Device Manager, Event Viewer, and so on. And on. The
minimalist approach
to problem description doesn't usually speed things
up...
Brian said:
The Operating system is windows 2000. I tried the XP
solution but there is no such folder in the registry.
Yes,
i have tried reinstalling the drivers. I dont know if i
should reformat or not but i dont want to. I have too
much
data in this computer
-----Original Message-----
You might also try reinstalling the OS-specific driver
for the device.
Emmers Presson [MSFT] wrote:
I assume that the operating system is Windows XP? If
so, try this article:
324129 HOW TO: Troubleshoot Issues That Occur When You
Write Data to a CD-R
or
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=324129
.
.
