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Posted by John Walsh (Member # 168) on 03-27-2005, 09:30 AM:

I put a Pioneer DVR-108 in my Dell a few months ago. It worked fine; I could put in a blank DVD and drag and drop stuff. XP would burn the DVD. I'm not sure when, but sometime after a few Microsoft updates, the DVD stopped working with XP, although I don't know if it was the Microsoft updates. The problem is when I put in a blank DVD, the "DVD-RW" icon changes to a just "CD" and won't burn. Any suggestions?

I have NERO, which works fine, so I can still burn stuff. But I like doing it through XP because NERO's interface is a pain to navigate through for a simple burn.

Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 03-27-2005, 01:30 PM:

Are you using the most recent firmware?

This page from Pioneer says 1.18 is the current version. It also has a program that will tell you what firmware your drive is using.

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 03-27-2005, 02:50 PM:

Off-topic discussion moved here.

[ 03-28-2005, 03:44 AM: Message edited by: Adam Martin ]

Posted by Christopher Duvall (Member # 284) on 03-28-2005, 03:07 AM:

Off-topic discussion moved here.

[ 03-28-2005, 03:44 AM: Message edited by: Adam Martin ]

Posted by John Walsh (Member # 168) on 03-28-2005, 04:32 PM:

Thanks Adam, I did try that, but no luck..

Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 03-28-2005, 04:44 PM:

Also check http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com for any Windows patches. Now that I think about it more, I seem to recall there was some sort of patch involving writing to CD or DVD. It wasn't a critical update, so it wouldn't have installed automatically.

Posted by Dean Kollet (Member # 1789) on 03-28-2005, 04:59 PM:

Windows Update - HighMAT Support

is this what you were talking about, Adam?

Posted by David Stambaugh (Member # 1102) on 03-28-2005, 05:13 PM:

When did XP get the ability to natively burn DVDs (without a helper-app)?

Posted by Dean Kollet (Member # 1789) on 03-28-2005, 06:48 PM:

They haven't, he was either using something in the background or burning a CD. It's supposed to be in the next version of windows, but we all know how that goes.