SP2 stopped my DVD drive working

[Guest]

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I installed SP2 a while back, before I went on holiday.
On returning, I noticed that my DVD writer (NEC ND-2510a)
refused to read DVDs or CDs; when I inserted a CD or DVD, for
about a minute after, no light was seen on the drive and no noise occured.

Only after about a minute was any noise heard or light occur. At each
stage, although I could move my mouse cursor, the system was unresponsive;
I couldn't bring up the task manager, activate buttons or use Windows
Explorer, for example.

The system only became responsive once I opened the drive using the
hardware button - though sometimes, the system froze entirely at this
point.

After playing around with the firmware with no results, I eventually decided
to uninstall SP2. Once I rebooted, the DVD writer worked straight away.

Has anyone else had the same experience? If so, is there a "safe" way to
apply SP2, without running into this problem again?

Thanks,

P.

 

[thewizz]

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Paul,

If you find out what is going on let me know!!!! I have the same issue, CD
and DVD/CD-RW worked fine, installed SP2 now they won't work.

John

"Paul Moloney" wrote:

> I installed SP2 a while back, before I went on holiday.
> On returning, I noticed that my DVD writer (NEC ND-2510a)
> refused to read DVDs or CDs; when I inserted a CD or DVD, for
> about a minute after, no light was seen on the drive and no noise occured.
>
> Only after about a minute was any noise heard or light occur. At each
> stage, although I could move my mouse cursor, the system was unresponsive;
> I couldn't bring up the task manager, activate buttons or use Windows
> Explorer, for example.
>
> The system only became responsive once I opened the drive using the
> hardware button - though sometimes, the system froze entirely at this
> point.
>
> After playing around with the firmware with no results, I eventually decided
> to uninstall SP2. Once I rebooted, the DVD writer worked straight away.
>
> Has anyone else had the same experience? If so, is there a "safe" way to
> apply SP2, without running into this problem again?
>
> Thanks,
>
> P.
>
>
>
>