Problem with a philips 8x4x32 cdrw locking up

[briddle]

I have a philips cdrw that I bought from someone one the board and it keeps locking up when copying or running a program off it in win98se. It will copy sometimes, but when it locks up, it locks up the whole pc. is there anyway to update anything on it. I have heard of firmware? updates? any help

Contacting the guy does no good, since he seems to have dropped of the planet.

Thanks.

 

[Kato]

Latest firmware for Philips pcrw804 is v2.5. Compare that with your version in the device manager.

 

[Santte]

These kind of problems can be caused by too small PSU. What other devices do you have connected to
your computer?
Have you tried the burner in any other computer?

I had the same problems, but they were caused by my Promise Ultra 100 controller.
-tms

 

[brinstar117]

I've had the same problem too, I've flashed the burner to the latest firmware version, I have a nice PS (431Watt Enermax), and I was using Win2k.

I'm just replacing it though, but if anyone has a solution I'm all ears for it.

 

[MaximusH825]

I don't if you have the same problem that I do but this is what happens to me:
Basically, I'll be watching a DVD or something and then the CDRW will take
control and the Disc In light starts blinking and everything freezes. I can't
do anything with my PC until it stops, and sometimes it doesn't. This is under
XP. Right now I have it unpluged but I'm planning on working on it in a bit.
Also, I do have the latest firmware...

 

[briddle]

for some reason the problem cleared up. I have burned several disk and load an entire disk and tested it thouroughly and everything is now fine.

I have a friend with a brand new pc and his cdrw locks up in the middle of burns everytime. I suspect the ps now. he is having some programs lock up as well!!


Thanks, Bruce

 

[MaximusH825]

HM, that's really interesting. Does your friend have the same Philips 8x4x32 drive?

 

[briddle]

No my friend has a lite-on 16X drive and I replaced the ps last night and it still locks up in the middle of nero.

I is also getting some illegal ops on games??

It was just built 3-4 weeks ago. A fresh install of w98 se/ 1.4 gig tbird/ msi turbo2/ pioneer 16x dvd, lite-on 16x10x40 cdrw, ibm 60 gig 7200/100, ati 32 mb 2000 pro vc.

 

[briddle]

Just in case anyone was wondering, My friends machine who was locking up with the dvd and cdrw was caused by his nic card, funny it was put in last. I has been running smooth since friday. The msworks 2001 was getting an illegal op all the time and it ended up being a printer driver. I uninstalled and re-installed the driver and all is fine. It is funny how the little thing can cause the biggest problems and you spend hours trying to find them??

 

[MaximusH825]

Hey, I was wondering if any of you guys have the firmware for the Philips drive. After flashing my drive I deleted it and I would like to experiment with it again now. If you have it please, please let me know. Philips has taken it off their site. Thanks.

Email - Maximus@telestream.com
AIM - MaximusH825

Thanks a lot!

 

[tm37]

I amy have it SOMEWHERE (groan) if you can remember the file name I can run a search. I have no desire to dig through the mess that is the shared download drive:|

LMK