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nd 2500a dvd burner

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  1. NOXangel1124

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    I recently bought a nec nd-2500a dvd burner. Now I installed it in one pc and it worked fine and burnt many dvd's. now i am trying to install it into a different pc and its not working. any type of cd or dvd i put in there it doesnt recognize. but it see's the drive there. any suggestions?? thanks
     
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    I would guess it is not jumpered properly. On the back of the drive set the jumper to Master, if there is another drive on the same IDE cable then jumper that drive as Slave.
     
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    i have the dvd burner on as master.. and a second cd burner is set to cable select. i thought that was ok.. should i change it to slave?
     
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    ok so i switched it anyway and it seems to be doing the same thing. when there is nothing in the drive and i open up my computer it says dvd-r drive. then when i put a dvd in it changes to cd drive. when i try to open it it says d drive is inaccessible. ???? i dont know whats wrong :(
     
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    Yes, set it to Slave - not that that is teh problem for sure but its the place to start. Both drives must be set to Cable Select for proper operation, although it works sometimes if only one is set to CS. Personally I wish CS never existed, it adds more trouble then it resolves.
     
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    Try it by itself on the IDE Cable.
     
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    it works with the other one disconnected... i guess i will leave it that way for now.. is there anything i could do?
     
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    Change the jumpers. Try them both as CS or the DVD as Slave and the other as Master.

    Or put the other drive as a Slave on the Primary IDE with the hard drive and leave the DVD burner as Master on the secondary IDE.
     
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    ok it worked for a minute.. now its back to the same error. still have the other one disconnected ....??????
     
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    Check for bent/broken pins on the IDE connection of the drive.
     
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    nope everything is fine..
     
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    any other ideas? i tried flashing to firmware again from 1.07 to 1.07, no luck. i uninstalled and reinstalled it. no luck... please help
     
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    Can you try the drive in the old computer or another computer?
     
    Triple6, Sep 8, 2004
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    In order to solve the problem for good, if you have usb 2 or firewire, may i suggest you get an external 5.25" box and put the DVD writer in. I have done the same thing with my NEC ND2500A and i never had any problems, apart from a few burned DVDs when used under Win98SE. And you can use it on more than one PC, without the trouble of taking it out and back in again.
     
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    do you know what is really weird. I found a way around it for the time being but I dont know why it works this way. I open powerdvd (even if it is not a dvd in the drive) then that recognizes the cd/dvd and I can open it to view the contents of the cd. Has anyone ever heard of such a thing? weird....
     
    NOXangel1124, Sep 17, 2004
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