DVD-burner on older desktop not working-please advise!

passinggas · Mar 2, 2009, 03:17 AM

I have a desktop Dell 8200 pentium 4 , windows XP home, 1.80ghz 512ram 100gb hard drive that cam with a dvd-rom. I know its old, but I live where only dial-up is available and so this works for me. I use DVDfabdecrypter and nero 7 on my laptop, so decided to put a NEC nd-2500 burner in the desktop for copying discs. wont recognize a disc in the drive, the device manager shows it installed and working properly, I flashed with the latest Original NECdriver(1.0B), and Nero Info shows the drive and the speeds it should be capable of. Is this machine too old/slow to do this? I want to burn at 4x MAX for best quality. It has a faster processor than my laptop. Do I need additional software-I thought Nero has a dvd decoder built in. I can buy a new burner is necessary, but read that the old NEC are better than the new Sony/Nec optiarc.Any advice would be appreciated.

GigaWatt · Mar 2, 2009, 08:49 AM

so the drive shows no indication that any kind of disc is present in the drive (not just for empty ones)... did i understand this correctly...?

if so, did you try to see if the drive works in any other PC, or did you tested it only on this rig...?

[hobo]eclipse · Mar 2, 2009, 05:53 PM

what about the jumpers on the back of the deice, are they set properly?

Mar 2, 2009, 03:17 AM	#1
passinggas DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	DVD-burner on older desktop not working-please advise! I have a desktop Dell 8200 pentium 4 , windows XP home, 1.80ghz 512ram 100gb hard drive that cam with a dvd-rom. I know its old, but I live where only dial-up is available and so this works for me. I use DVDfabdecrypter and nero 7 on my laptop, so decided to put a NEC nd-2500 burner in the desktop for copying discs. wont recognize a disc in the drive, the device manager shows it installed and working properly, I flashed with the latest Original NECdriver(1.0B), and Nero Info shows the drive and the speeds it should be capable of. Is this machine too old/slow to do this? I want to burn at 4x MAX for best quality. It has a faster processor than my laptop. Do I need additional software-I thought Nero has a dvd decoder built in. I can buy a new burner is necessary, but read that the old NEC are better than the new Sony/Nec optiarc.Any advice would be appreciated.

Mar 2, 2009, 08:49 AM	#2
GigaWatt Now In Color :D Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Macedonia, Skopje Posts: 2,116 Rep Power: 81 System Specs	Re: DVD-burner on older desktop not working-please advise! so the drive shows no indication that any kind of disc is present in the drive (not just for empty ones)... did i understand this correctly...? if so, did you try to see if the drive works in any other PC, or did you tested it only on this rig...? __________________ It's not schisophrenia... it's just a voice in my head...

Mar 2, 2009, 05:53 PM	#3
[hobo]eclipse ...just bummin 'round Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 2,907 Rep Power: 112 System Specs	Re: DVD-burner on older desktop not working-please advise! what about the jumpers on the back of the deice, are they set properly?