Up until now I've had no serious problems with my Emprex 16x DVD burner. However, I recently installed Vista beta 2 (removed it since) and in the middle of burning a disc Vista crashed. Since then the drive has semi-died. It powers up and the tray works; in both XP and Linux, the computer can recognize that the tray is open or closed, but that's about it. No matter what type of disc I put in the drive, it just says no disc. There seems to be no data communication between the lens and the computer. It seems that this would be something that would be fixed with some form of drive reset, but I've flashed this thing with different firmware versions and all have the same effect. I'm figuring that this thing is dead and I'm gonna go get an NEC. Any ideas on fixing this?

Thanks,
JM

I'm having similar problems as this.

I installed the Vista beta, didn't care for it, and removed it. I went back to Windows XP Home SP2, and now my burner barely works. After I reinstalled XP, the burner wouldn't burn a single thing, so I reformatted again and it seemed to work for a while. Yesterday it was burning the discs without a problem, but after they were done they wouldn't play in any DVD player. I ran a disc check with Nero and it's coming back with most of the disc being bad. I updated to firmware from A07R to A091, and that still doesn't work.

Hopefully someone can shed some light on this subject.

those BTC drives are too bad to bother; buy another drive and chill.

Hi everyone,I havent been here for a while as my motherboard crashed.My problem is I have just had a liteon dvd burner installed and it worked fine but I thought I would be clever and update the firmware which I did and now the burner will not recognise any discs.It,s a LH-18AIP RAM DRIVE.Any help would be greatly appreciated thanks