OS: Win98SE, two optical drives: CD rw and DVD rw.
Everything was working fine until last night when I tried to reinstall INCD on my system. It wouldn’t go, because it was missing a loader and something to do with dcom98. –I ran dcom. But it made no diff.
Shut down System.
This morning, “My Computer” shows that I have two CD drives instead of a CD and a DVD.
In the control panel, system, device manager. It lists CD drives and under that heading shows the CD and DVD drives (at least the labels). Properties, say both drives are working.
Nero Info tool shows a CD and DVD burner in the system. ASPI is working. Everything looks normal, there.
But My Computer says, two CD burners.
The DVD burner will not record to DVDs. It will play a DVD that was recorded as data, but gives the capacity of the DVD as being full, when it isn’t.
A CDFC burned DVD will not play. The system freezes. It also freezes when I put in blank DVD media, read its properties, then remove it.
I also tried to reflash the firmware NEC 2500A 1.0b. –at the end of the flash, the system crashed. (black screen). But NERO still shows the firmware as being installed, so I think it’s ok?
As a fix I unistalled INCD: that didn’t help.
I removed both optical drives from the CP|System|Device Manager, and rebooted. — that didn’t help.
Sounds like an OS problem to me, but maybe not–what matters is does anyone have experience or an idea how to fix this?
Oh, the BIOS shows a DVD & CD burner, recognized.
But, right after post, the pre-windows splash screen info, says it has loaded two CD devices. The option to boot into windows from a CD or a DVD, now is boot from a CD.
Any ideas on where to start? Thanks, Bob