Some Advice Concerning my MSI 16x DVD Rom Needed

This probably isn't the forum to ask this but I'm running out of options. I'm using DVD X Plat and it absolutly refuses to use the MSI DVD Rom to read with. I'm having to use the writer as the reader resulting in read times of 15-18 min. By the way I have had excellent performance in burning DVD-R's and CD-R's, TDK's, Memorex and Generics. I have tried everything but consider myself a hobbiest at most. I have the reader on IDE 1, the Burner on 2 and the HDD on 3. I thought I would get the best performance with the reader on 1 and burner on 2. The reader plays DVD's, CD's fine but absolutly will not read while backing-up DVD's. Anyone familiar or experience any problems like this. Could it possibly be the reader? Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
Butch R

NovJoe, Thanks for the reply. The Seagate HDD is IDE. You gave me some advice on the settings in BIOS. Would they still be same considering my HDD is IDE? Also I was informed that having the burner and rom on 2 seperate channels would be better. While speed would not increase perhaps quality would. Any comments? I just burnt a DVD to DVD using Nero and the results were great with the Rom and Burner. No one else has experienced the problem I'm having with the program that has responded to my query on their forum. Pulling my hair out
Thanks
Butch R

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MSI 16x DVD-ROM

I recently but together a brand new system and I am having a problem with the MSI DVD-ROM. In safe mode this problem disappears oddly enough, but what happens is that is states there is an I/O error when trying to read the drive. Any suggestions? The MSI 48x16x48 CD-RW that I have hooked up to the secondary IDE as well works great. Any ideas? What gets me is how it works fine in safe mode.... I tried MSI tech support people but they still haven't gotten back to me and it's kinda been a couple of weeks.
Thanks all!!!
Islos

Did you try setting it as master on IDE2 without any slave?
What board do you have?
Do you have the option to test the drive on another computer?

Looking for HP 16X DVD ROM Drive driver

Does anyone know where I can find a driver for the HP 16X DVD ROM Drive? I have an old HP 515n and I'm attempting to install Window 7 on it. Windows 7 is asking for the DVD ROM driver.
Thanks.

Lowell, welcome to the forum.
The only drivers that are available on the Product Specifications page are for XP. Therefore, I don't believe that HP will be developing a driver for the drive. It is possibly too old.
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I need some drivers for my CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive

I have been going through the apple site for a few hours here and I would really like to speak to a human being about this. This is not hard. I have a Pismo PowerBook G3, which I purchased online, used. Wiped the HD when I got it, installed 10.2.8. Updated iTunes to version 6.0.5. I get an error message when I try to burn a CD, missing software or incompatible drive. The drive is an apple brand drive. I am not certain where to find the serial number on it, there are a lot of numbers on it, but it can be provided if someone will tell me where to look. It's not a hardware problem, I can watch DVDs and play CDs, just can't burn. The drive says "CD-RW/DVD-ROM" right on it, and my computer is able to recognize it as such in the system profiler. I am led to believe I am missing a driver(s) that will allow iTunes to burn CDs with the drive.
It'd be great if I could get this on a disc, but if I can just download it from somewhere (willing to pay for it/them!), as long as I can burn it to a disc or download it again if I install a larger HD, that's wonderful. Or, say, I could wait on downloading it until I HAVE upgraded the HD, which I will probably do in the coming year. This would not be as wonderful, but I'm willing to do it.
Please, can somebody help me?

If you can, I'd recommend upgrading to 10.4, as it usually recognizes any 3rd party CDRW/DVD or DVD burner, without the need for Patchburn.
You can check the xlr8yourmac website for reports from Pismo (and other PB) users who have added aftermarket CD/DVD burners to their Pismos, etc.
I too love the Pismo (have had and upgraded at least 10 over the years, some for me and some for family members). The expansion bay was a great idea back in the day. I've found that most if not all aftermarket notebook, a.k.a. "slim" burners fit in the expansion bay. And the Pismo, coupled with Tiger 10.4 (I find 10.4.7 to be outstanding and haven't updated beyond it), is highly usable still today, given that big hard disks and DVD burners and 54g wifi PCMCIA cards (Airport compatible, no drivers needed: e.g. the Motorola WN825G cardbus card) have plummeted in price from a couple years ago. Too bad that compatible RAM is still expensive, as are new Pismo batteries (new, they cost more than many Pismos on eBay!).
As to brands/models, I like the Sony-Nec Optiarc AW-G540A 8x DVD burner (recognized as Master, ID=0 right out of the box, very fast, fairly quiet, priced @ $50-60) because it just works; and the UJ-8xx series DVD burners from Panasonic, which are pretty reliable (and very cheap on ebay if they're older models), because you can swap the faceplate/bezel with the original bezel from the DVD-Rom in your Pismo (if it was a Panasonic model; Apple also used LG drives).
Good luck.

16X DVD Rom drive?????? WHY?????

WHY is it most people list their DVD Rom drive as being 16X????
ALL DVD drives are 16X anyway.
If there were other speeds then that would be different but there are not.

Hi,
Eh? Wrong forum
Two of Many!
http://www.shoplet.com/hardware/db/005735.html
or
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Hardware/Developer_Notes/Macintosh_CPUs-G4/iMac/03_Input-Output/index.html?http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Hardware/Developer_Notes/Macintosh_CPUs-G4/iMac/03_Input-Output/chapter_4_section_10.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000884/BBCDHIBD
Axel

Msi 16x dvd rewriter

I have got studio 9 plus on my computer, I have made a movie and when I try to burn to a dvd it renders then tells me to wait and then tells me it can not burn to disc. Before I put this rewriter in I had a 4x rewriter and that worked ok. Is there anything you can advise me to do?

What size is the file you want to burn to the DVD?
Have you tried Nero or Alcohol?

Advice concerning sharing by DVD or other method

Friends,
I'd like some advice concerning saving/sharing my projects by DVD or other method. The short question is whether storing projects on DVD is the best way to store projects with high quality that, at the same time, are easy to transport and view.
I've got a fairly large number of projects, some created/edited in FCPX and others exported from FCE, imported into FCPX and edited. I often upload the projects to YouTube, but I'd like to save them on something easier to use and more dependable than YouTube. The projects are primarily home movies, three to fifteen minutes in length. I can use the share for DVD function in FCPX, but it's unclear to me if the quality is the best it can be (I don't know if there's compression or something else at play, but the files I've shared for DVD seem smaller than I would have expected). On the other hand, even at these smaller file sizes (150MB to 1GB), it won't take long to fill a DVD. I'm working on an imac i7, so BluRay, with its greater storage capacity, isn't an option unless I were to obtain an external BluRay drive.
Any other suggestions? I haven't actually burned my DVD projects to a DVD, so they might actually be the high quality that I want.
Thanks for any thoughts.
Steve

You don't have to convert them to DVD files.... you could just dump them as "data" files onto a DVD disc. e.g. as .mov files with their original quality.

K9N2 Diamond Not Recognizing SATA DVD Rom

I just though I would try to post here to see if anyone had any ideas as to what might be the cause or if I should just RMA the board and hope it gets resolved.
To sum it up I have a PC that doesn't always like to reboot (not a problem really as I don't like to reboot it except for when getting updates) and will not recognize the DVD drive plugged into the SATA ports. Originally I thought it may have just been a flaky optical drive as it worked long enough for me to get the OS installed and everything set up back in late June early July. However for some reason Windows XP Pro x64 and the BIOS stopped recognizing the optical drive. Since I thought it might have just been a flaky drive I didn't worry about it too much as I had everything set up - was just annoying that I couldn't watch DVDs (but I could just go to the other room to do that so not biggie). On Saturday I bought a new DVD drive (one that could play Blue Ray disks figuring since I have my monitor hooked up through an HDMI cable why not also have the capability to play Blue Ray disks) and the same problem exists. The BIOS will on a rare occasion actually recognize the DVD drive however as soon as it reboots again it will not and even when it did recognize the DVD drive by the time Windows loaded up it didn't pick up on it.
I have tried all four SATA ports in combination with my SATA hard drive (and alternating between six different SATA cables too) but a vast majority of the time if I have both the hard drive and DVD drive plugged in the PC will not boot up - it just seems to hang (and sometimes doesn't want to let me into the BIOS).
PC Specs (included links from original orders):
Power Supply: ZALMAN ZM850-HP 850W Continuous @ 45°C (Maximum Continuous Peak: 1050W) ATX12V V2.2 / EPS12V V2.91 SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC Modular Heatpipe-Cooled SLI ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817379007 )
Mother board: MSI K9N2 Diamond Motherboard on BIOS version 2.3 ( http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3975888&SRCCODE=WEBLET03ORDER&cm_mmc=Email-_-WebletMain-_-WEBLET03ORDER-_-Deals )
Processor: AMD Phenom II x4 920 ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103472 )
Memory: 8 GB Corsair 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) (4x 2 GB strips) (2x http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145184 )
Video Card: Galaxy 96GGF6HMFEXX GeForce 9600 GT 1GB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814162020 )
Hard Drive: WD VelociRaptor 150GB SATA HD 10K/16MB/SATA-3 ( http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4164551&SRCCODE=WEBLET03ORDER&cm_mmc=Email-_-WebletMain-_-WEBLET03ORDER-_-Deals )
Latest DVD Drive: LG - 8x Internal Blu-ray Disc Double-Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Drive ( http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9402265&type=product&id=1218099651419 ) (before that it was just a generic OEM Sony DVD Drive)
Keyboard: basic usb lenovo keyboard - nothing special about it (got this one because it is the same keyboard I use at work)
Mouse: Old Logitech USB mouse from something like 5 years ago
Gamepad: Logitech Rumblepad 2
OS: Currently Win XP Pro x64 (have Win 7 x64 disk but cannot install due to said problem with DVD drive recognition)

I haven't tested with a third DVD drive simply because I don't have a third :(
The original DVD drive (an OEM Sony Optiarc Beige 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache SATA DVD/CD Rewritable Drive - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827118033) was what was being used while I was installing everything and was the drive that I was noticing wasn't always showing up in Windows Explorer (well more often than not wasn't appearing, but it seemed to last long enough to get all the initial installations done and I really don't used the ROMs much past that). At the time I thought it might have been that the drive just went flaky and ignored it because I didn't use it.
The odd thing was it was also causing headaches when restarts were required for the same reason - the PC would freeze up on the motherboard splash screen (lack of a better term presently) where it normally does the POST tests (I think I am remembering that correctly .... when all the beeps takes place) so I unhooked the SATA connection to the motherboard for the drive and then the PC would actually reboot normally without the hanging. This made me also think it was the drive causing problems.
I've been running without any optical drive hooked up for a couple months now, but with getting my copy of Windows 7 I was getting ready to install that and picked up what I thought was the needed fix in a new DVD drive however when hooking it up the same problem started up again. This time when trying to figure out a setting that actually worked I rotated through all six of my SATA cables (motherboard came with extras ) and rotated them through all four normal SATA slots. Well actually I tied all six slots but it didn't seem like the BIOS wanted to pick up on slots five or six (the E-SATA if I recall correctly) as having devices (when I had the HDD and DVD Drive in slots five and six it said it couldn't find a bootable device).
I'm at work now so I can't double check in the BIOS but I am pretty sure it is just set for SATA since I don't use RAID or AHCI - I'll check again on this when I get home though.
The oddest thing about the whole thing (to me at least) is the lack of consistency with the BIOS recognizing the devices (well the DVD drive anyways). I would have thought that if it recognized the device (which it has from time to time) that it would keep on recognizing it, but it seems to want to forget that it did recognize it even after it did by the time Windows loads up.
It does not seem to have any problems when only the SATA HDD is hooked up though.
If it really is the MB being flaky I think I would only have four options:
1) Buy a SATA PCI controller card and see if I can get things up and running that way - though this wouldn't solve the problem if the motherboard is flaking out and not 100% sure what it would do for installing new OS quite yet .... not to mention be a little odd when there are 5 other open SATA ports on the motherboard)
2) RMA the motherboard and hope a replacement/fix can be made and be without a PC for the duration
3) Not upgrade to Windows 7 and sit on that upgrade till whenever and also have a new expensive paperweight (if I take the ROM out of the PC)
4) Get a new MB .... really don't want to pick this one since I built the thing tail end of June/beginning of July (just was slowly ordering the parts for longer than that .... I really need to stop doing that - kills possible return chances)
Of course I can also hope it is something else that I am just missing and that none of those are needed. I actually built my setup based on what a friend of mine has since his is/was pretty solid.

Need help with my DVD-ROM and Burner

I’ve got a 875P Neo FIS2R, Sony DRU-510K Burner and a LITE-ON 16X DVD ROM. My LITE-ON drive is set to secondary master and my SONY burner is set to secondary slave but for some reason is the POST report it does not show my DVD drives. In windows XP it also does not show any of my drives. I have a 120 GB Maxtor 6Y120M0 SATA drive which is showing up in the POST report.
Please I need this to fixed up ASAP
If any one has any ideas the please reply
Chatura

Go to BIOS and set your IDE configuration, try this one:
For Native Mode:
ATA Configuration: SATA Only
S-ATA Keep Enabled: Yes
P-ATA Keep Enabled: Yes
PATA Channel Selection: Both

Need help reinstalling my cd/dvd-rom

Some how I deleted my cd/dvd-rom. I can't play cd's or movies. I have not found the software to reinstall my driver. My laptop is p105-6114 with windows xp. I did not get a disk when I bought it.

You can reinstall your OS.
or
you can try :
go to support.micorosft.com
search the article ID : 314060
Article: This You can no longer access the CD drive or the DVD drive, or you receive an error message after you remove a CD recording program or a DVD recording program in Windows XP: "error code 31"

16X DVD +R Discs?

I've got some recently purchased Memorex Printable 16X DVD+R discs and am wondering if they're compatible with my SuperDrive? Is there a firmware update available that will let me use these 16X DVDs?

No.
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SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW): writes DVD-R discs at up to 4x speed, reads DVDs at up to 8x speed, writes CD-R discs at up to 16x speed, writes CD-RW discs at up to 8x speed, reads CDs at up to 24x speed
As you see yours will only read and write DVD-R Media.
As another note, you will also find that you want to use only top of the line Media, as recommended in this Guide.
http://www.digitalfaq.com/media/dvdmedia.htm
Stick with a top quality and make sure you read the packaging, to make sure your drive can burn the media you choose.
There is a big difference in the Media you buy.
Cheers Don

DVD-ROM problem reloaded

HI everybody. I have posted this issue before, but got no solution for it. So, I'm trying again.
Whenever I insert a CD into my DVD-ROM drive the system gets locked. The drive's light lights up a few times, but everything gets locked, including the mouse pointer. Then after a few minutes the mouse pointer is released and the system can be used again. The DVD-ROM drive, however, is never accessed at all.
When the above useless processing is finished the mouse pointer is released, and I can use the system - as long as I don't try to access the DVD-ROM drive again. If I do try to access the drive, everything gets locked up again as explained in the above paragraph.
Would you guys be able to help me figure this out?

ttreaders:
I have had problems since I began installing nVidia IDE drivers. Whenever I install those, the problem repeats itself. With the original MS WinXP drivers I did not have it. However I get a lot more performance from the system with the newest nVidia IDE drivers. So ...
G_man:
Thanks for your "moral" support. Your description of the problem is excellent. It seems exactly the same as mine. This drive is a Samsung SD-616B 16x DVD-ROM that came with my Dell 8200 system. I took it out of the Dell system and installed in the new one. The FW version is F006. I bought this Dell 8200 in November 2001. I wouldn't think it's an old drive though. Regarding round cables, I do have them, so I might try using flat ones sometime in the near future, and see if it works better. Also, please see my reply to archermoo below.
Archermoo:
I have disabled UDMA mode in Bios and driver, and ... IT WORKS!!! Alleluiah. The system can access the drive and is not hanging any more. .
Now, my question to you guys is: what am I missing by changing the DVD-ROM drive's access mode to PIO?

K7T266 Pro2-RU won't start DVD rom drive

Hi,
I have a K7T266 Pro2-RU MB running XP 1800+. I have been using it for over a year. Recently, I found out that I need to add a new HD to my system as I was running out of HD space. Let's start by giving my original system spec:
K7T266 Pro2-RU
512 MB DDR2100 RAM Kingston
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windows XP professional sp1
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IDE 1 master 16X DVD-rom
IDE 2 master 48X CDRW
I purchased and added a 120GB WD 7200 RPM (2MB model) to IDE 1 slave. Initially, everything was happy. I partition the new 120 GB into 3 logical drives each for 40GB. Last week, I decided to repartition the 120GB into 1 120 GB. The DVD-rom stopped functioning. Windows XP said it won't start (error code 10). I un-installed and let windows re-installed its driver and it still won't start. I re-partitioned the 120GB HD into 2 60 GB HDs and same problem. I have not tried re-partition the 120 GB into 3 HDs again. But I will later this week. Does anybody know what the problem may be?
My MB is running the next to the latest version of the Bios (I just checked last night).
Does anybody know what the problem may be?
Any comment is welcome.
David

wonkanoby,
thanks for your help. After opening up my case, I tried setting my 120 GB HD to master jumper and the DVD to slave. They both remained on the same IDE port. It seems to have solve the problem. I am crossing my finger for this one. If it fails again later, I will try your suggestion.
Again, thanks for your help.
David :D

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The recording device is the built-in SuperDrive on my iBook G4 1.42. I've been archiving copies of my photos to recordable DVD. It's usually 2 copies of each set - one in DVD+R and one in DVD-R. I store each set in a different place.
My preferred media is (Made in Japan) Taiyo-Yuden media sold under the FujiFilm and Sony label. So far, the spindles I've opened and used are the FujiFilm (8x-listed) DVD+R (regular silver label) and DVD-R (from the "Color Tower" package).
The DVD-R recordings seem to read back fine in most DVD-ROM drives I've tried. I have a circa 2001 PC with a DVD-ROM drive, and it doesn't read back the DVD+R copies. It'll just whirr for about 20 seconds and then just stop without the disc mounting. All DVD recordings seem to read back just fine on my iBook G3 600.
Are there any known problems with readback of DVD+R recorded from OS X on some DVD-ROM drives? I figure I'm eventually going to get an external drive that also records DVD+R (I'm thinking that would present the fewest compatibility problems) or a new machine (it's about time after five years).
14 iBook G4 1.42 1.5GB (10.4.3), 12 iBook G3 600 640MB (10.3.9)

Just a note of interest. If your machine is 2001
vintage, my guess it doesn't like + media at all.
There are some reports that in some cases that these
older drives can read them sporaticlly at best, this
is normally caused by the poor quality of some
manufactures.
It's a Sony VAIO desktop with a Pioneer DVD-ROM drive. I don't know about "quality" per se, but it probably finicky.
I find that using the best quality media eliminates
many problems. And I realise that it is more
expensive to use this media but in the long run it's
worth the extra money.
Have a look at the Media Guide below.
http://www.digitalfaq.com/media/dvdmedia.htm
Cheers Don
Like I said - Taiyo Yuden all the way unless it's maybe sometime like video storage where it's no big deal. I just got three spindles of MIJ (had to look carefully for that) Sony 16x DVD-R for $12.99 each at CompUSA. They didn't have it on sale, but they price-matched the $12.99 price at Best Buy (my local store only had made in Taiwan stock). I was next to the manager at the customer service area, and she said I could have as many as I wanted at that price. If it were some expensive item, I think I would have been limited to one or two.

I have a DVD-Rom and DVD-Video card for Powerbook and need advice

I acquired 2 accessory components for a G3 series powerbook. I have a dual G4 so have no use for them. There is a M4743 DVD-Rom for Powerbook and a DVD-Video PC card for G3 series Powerbook family M5163. There is also a software CD. I would like to sell them but I really don’t how to explain what this stuff does. I tried Ebay and did not find any matches. Does this make a DVD upgrade for a particular Powerbook? Is something else required? Is Ebay the best place to sell? Any idea what this stuff is worth? Any advice would be greatly appreciated
Bob

Robert,
You apparently have the DVD Video Player Kit for the Powerbook G3 Series "Wallstreet" M4753.
This is the DVD-ROM module:
http://www.powerbookmedic.com/xcart1/customer/product.php?productid=16219&cat=26 6&page=1
This is the DVD Decoder PC card:
http://www.ifixit.com/cart/customer/product.php?productid=296&cat=&page=1
The above DVD PC card is not Apple's but there were two third-party vendors who also offered a DVD kit...VST and MCE. They all served the same purpose and will all be priced similarly.
Both PC card and optical drive are required to play DVD movies on the Wallstreet, plus Apple DVD Player is only supported when booted to 9.x, not 10.x.
I really cannot give you a fair price to ask; the above hardware prices are probably high but you will get an idea.

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