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    please help with DVD

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Mique, Feb 26, 2007.

  1. Mique

    Mique Notebook Enthusiast

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    I finally clen installed XP and made my nc8430 work like a charm, but today my DVD (hl-dt-st dvdram gsa-t10n) stopped working. It isn't writing or reading any media and if I don't remove media from it, it stops my system working (freez).

    any idea, firmware update, anything to make it work?
     
    Mique, Feb 26, 2007
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    Have you checked the transfer mode under the drive in Device Manager? It could have slipped into PIO mode instead of DMA.
     
    R4000, Feb 26, 2007
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    no, its DMA, I applied the patch that I found on this forum, cause DVD was very slow before... so it was working OK for couple of days now and today suddenly this happened
     
    Mique, Feb 26, 2007
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