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    NEC AD-7590A-01 DVD-RW master to slave?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by bhxtyrant, Feb 12, 2008.

  1. bhxtyrant

    bhxtyrant Notebook Guru

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    Hey guys,
    Well where to begin,I just purchased a new NEC AD-7590A-01 DVD +/- RW DL burner as a replacement for my laptop burner which recently died.I have a Toshiba Qosmio F-25 AV205 and i already read that i will need to switch my new NEC drive to slave via tools from NEC.I also purchased a slimline to IDE converter for this purpose.After contacting NEC they e-mailed me back with the tool in question telling me i needed to conect the drive to my desktop via the converter then run the tool to change from master to slave jumper settings.

    After connecting the drive to my desktop it is reconized as a Sony NEC Optiarc AD-7590A-01 but when i run the tool "Optiarc_G540_ReverseATA_Tool" i get a message saying "Target Optiarc DVD drive is not found correctly" i tryed connecting it as per instruction to each IDE connector making sure that it was also the only device on that IDE channel but nothing seems to help and i get the same error every time.Now im pretty stuck and just e-mailed NEC support again but thought i would also ask here.Any help would be great.
     
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  2. dfpalyu

    dfpalyu Newbie

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    There is a software patch that will change the drive from Master to Slave from NEC in Germany. I will try to send it to you. It will only work with AD-7590A-01. Let me know if it works. It did for me.

    Toshiba Sattellite A25-307.

    You may need to attach the converter to a desktop to run the software.
     

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  3. bhxtyrant

    bhxtyrant Notebook Guru

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    Hey man,
    Thanks for your reply,Sorry i didnt get to check online lately but i already had found this information out through NEC tech support and got the drive working correctly.Was quite a pain at first as they sent me the wrong tool "G540A" but now all is good.Thanks again
     
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