DVD DR8-A2

Hi I’m having a problem with my DVD burner
My pc is
Athlon 64 3200+
Msi k8t neo
Xp pro
SP2
I purchased an msi dr8-a2 DVD burner and I have 2 problems with it. first all DVD’s it makes at some point when playing the movie back lock up (The picture freezes). The second problem is the speed the DVD burns at it will burn at 2.4*.
Things I have tried
I went in to device manager and it called the drive an ATAPI DVD RW 8*MAX
I double clicked on it to give me properties then went in to details and is said
IDE\CDROMATAPI_DVD_RW_8*MAX_____________150D___\5&211F198B&0&0.0.0
I THEN WENT ON TO MSI WEB SITE TO DOWNLOAD THE LATEST FIRMWARE
Went in to download optical storage
Then optical storage firmware
Then DVD Duel drive firmware
Looked down the list until I found the DR8-A2 then downloaded the file called DR8A2_150D
Then made a boot floppy and put the files in and restarted the pc the pc booted from the floppy and run the software.
Executed dvflash_scr.bin it gave me 2 choices 1) dvd rw 2) cdrw so I went with choice 1 DVD.
IT THEN TOLD ME “THIS FILE IS NOT SUPPORT FOR DEVICE”
SO I HAVE AN MSI DVD RW (DR8_A2) I GO TO THE MSI WEB SITE DOWNLOAD THE DR8_A2 SOFTWARE AND I GET BACK AN ERROR THIS IS NOT SUPPORT FOR DEVICE.
SO WHAT IS IT WHEN I’M SURE I DON’T KNOW
Helppppppp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi there
both your problems are likely to depend on the media you used. Depending on the DVD brand you may have a different DVD speed and a DVD8x will be sometimes burnt at 4x or 2.4X. This is not that bad, expecially if you have an old DVD player, which may not accept DVds burnt at the highest speed.
Concerning the picture freeze you noticed, well, sometimes it happens when you didn't remove properly the dvd "protections"...
And pay attention to the firmware upgrade, it's somewhat risky.
Ciao
Quote from: pspec on 30-April-05, 23:46:21
I purchased an msi dr8-a2 DVD burner and I have 2 problems with it. first all DVD’s it makes at some point when playing the movie back lock up (The picture freezes). The second problem is the speed the DVD burns at it will burn at 2.4*.

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