hoping you guys can help me on this one ... i recently upgraded my pioneer dvr 105 to the 106 - wanted to get dvd+r ability and it came in black which matches my case. however, ever since installing this drive my system has been flaking out on me. on several occasions the drive has just disappeared from my system; shutting down and rebooting after several minutes seems to fix this (rebooting instantly doesn't!?) on several other occasions the system has hung during cd writing or erasing. also, on boot-up the drive shows up in windows explorer as a dvd-rw; however, once i have used the drive to burn a disk it is shown as just being a cd-rom drive.
system specs: winxp pro, all the latest patches. latest firmware installed on the drive (1.07). nero 6, latest versions of everything. two optical drives installed, each as master on a seperate ide channel. allowing winxp to select dma mode, both are being set to "multi-word dma mode 2". the other drive is a pioneer dvd 106s. also running virtualCD which installs a virtual cd/dvd drive in the system.
at this piont i am at a complete loss as to how to debug this problem. i hate to hassle with returning it for repair but at i don't know what else to do. any ideas?<B>
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system specs: winxp pro, all the latest patches. latest firmware installed on the drive (1.07). nero 6, latest versions of everything. two optical drives installed, each as master on a seperate ide channel. allowing winxp to select dma mode, both are being set to "multi-word dma mode 2". the other drive is a pioneer dvd 106s. also running virtualCD which installs a virtual cd/dvd drive in the system.
at this piont i am at a complete loss as to how to debug this problem. i hate to hassle with returning it for repair but at i don't know what else to do. any ideas?<B>
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