Recently a three-year old Lite-On multi-format DL DVD burner in my Windiows XP desktop started balking at some DVD burning jons. DVD-R? Fine. DVD=R? Fine. DVD-DL? Fine. DVD RW variants? Fine. CD and CD-RW? Fine.
But it was not happy with DVD-R jobs. At first I suspected Nero, because the current version has some issues. Then I suspected a media brand/batch issue (it would do Memorex fine, but not Sony..for while. Then the problem became all DVD-R jobs). I found a firmware upgrade on the Lite-On USA website. It installed with no problems and seems the DVD-R issue seems resolved. My questions: The burner worked fine from day 1 until it started eliminating DVD-R from its functionality. The firmware upgrade fixed this. Can firmware get corrupted? Was the firmware update the best troubleshooting path (other than the obvious "yes, since it fixed it///) I've never had a similar hardware issue over 15 years of computing with optical drives... Thanks ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
