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this can't be good

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And they were burned with the *same* drive. Go figure. These are data DVDs, not movies. If I put one in the drive, it will open in explorer, but it doesn't show any files. My old Pioneer 16x drive, on the other hand, can read them perfectly. Any ideas?

Nate
 
Originally posted by: Brian23
Try doing a disk quality test with Nero and see if there are a lot of errors on the disk.
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It's not just *a* disk. I tried 4 different ones. (All with the same kind of data - FLAC files made from a bunch of CDs that I've got.

Nate
 
Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
this can happen with cheap media i think
did you try reading these disks back when they were made?
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yeah, and they worked, if I remember correctly. These *shouldn't* be cheap media, either - they're Fuji +Rs (Taiyo Yuden; discs say "made in Japan")

Nate
 
Do you have another computer to put the drive into and test there? Maybe it's time for an RMA back to NEC?

techfuzz
 
Originally posted by: techfuzz
Do you have another computer to put the drive into and test there? Maybe it's time for an RMA back to NEC?

techfuzz
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If that were true, why does everything else work? I burnt half a dozen CDs this morning, all of which worked both in my computer and in my home theater CD player. It reads standard DVDs and CDs just fine...haven't tried burning a DVD in a few weeks though.

Nate
 
I've seen stranger things happen. There could be something wrong with the OS. Maybe there's an issue with Nero's ASPI driver being loaded incorrectly. Any number of things could be wrong with the computer. Until it produces the same problem in two different computers, I wouldn't rule out either the OS or the drive being bad.

techfuzz
 
Have you updated the bios of your 3500 ?. I've read of some ppl that upgraded their bios having problems reading disk they burned with the stock bios.

As far as my personal experience I burned a couple of DVD's (cheap legacy brand) on my 3500 with stock bios (2.16) and later updated to 2.C8 bios. I didn't experience problems reading the DVD's I burned with the stock bios.

Take a look at the CDRinfo forums, there's lots of 3500 owners there, in fact there's a whole forum dedicated to NEC Firmwares.

BTW... you could try upgrading your bios and check if that helps, using a program called binflash(more info on the forum) you'll be able to backup your current bios and upgrade/downgrade between bios versions.
 
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