I have a problem with a new dvd burner not seeing any disc which is placed in it. My system is an AMD 1.06GHz, 256M, XP pro SP2 with all latest updates to sw. The burner is a sony dru-810A and I'm using the oem nero software. Any disc placed in the burner is not seen. The drive shows up on explorer. You place a disc in the drive and it runs for 30 sec and then stops with no error and without loading or recognizing the disc (both blank media and written, ....cdr, cdrom, and dvd+r). I've tried removing the driver for the dvd and ide bus; removed nero and reinstalled; moved the drive to a primary and secondary ide bus; made the drive a master, slave and c/s. The drive always shows up in explorer as a dvd-rw, but never shows it loading a disc. I've contacted sony storage support twice with no response and am looking for some other ideas. I have not updated my bios or mobo, but am not sure if this would make a difference, and am hesitant to do this. In the bios it shows up as using UDMA 2 ?? cant remember right now, but would this have anything to do with it. I changed it at one point to the same as my cdr burner (mode 4), but this didnt make any difference. Any ideas?
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