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I can play & record DVDs just fine, but this drive will not recognize CDROMs, even the Nero CDROM that came with it. Below is the Nero Info for the drive also stating 'no disc inserted' while a CDROM is there. At the bottom is the disc info when a DVD is inserted which reads properly. Is there some switch/jumper related to this? Thanks in advance for your help, Mark Nero InfoTool 4.03 Drive Information +----------------- Drive PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-111D Type DVD±R/RW DL Recorder Firmware Version 1.29 Buffer Size 2000 KB Date 06-08-10 Vendor Specific 06/08/10 PIONEER Drive Letter F:\ Location 3:0 Mechanism Tray Read Speed 40 X Write Speed 40 , 32 X Read CD Text Yes Return C2 Pointers Yes Read CD-R Yes Read CD-RW Yes Read DVD-ROM Yes Read DVD-RAM Yes Read DVD-R Yes Read DVD-RW Yes Read DVD-R DL Yes Read DVD+R Yes Read DVD+RW Yes Read DVD+R DL Yes Read BD-ROM No Read BD-R No Read BD-RE No Read HD DVD-ROM No Read HD DVD-R No Read HD DVD-RW No Read HD-BURN No Read Digital Audio Yes Read CD+G No Read VideoCD Yes Write CD-R Yes Write CD-RW Yes Write DVD-R Yes Write DVD-RW Yes Write DVD-R DL Yes Write DVD+R Yes Write DVD+RW Yes Write DVD+R DL Yes Write DVD-RAM No Write BD-R No Write BD-RE No Write HD DVD-R No Write HD DVD-RW No Write HD-BURN-R No Write HD-BURN-RW No Buffer Underrun Protection Yes Mount Rainier No SolidBurn No Labelflash No Modes Packet, TAO, DAO, SAO, RAW SAO, RAW DAO, RAW SAO 16, RAW SAO 96, RAW DAO 16, RAW DAO 96 Region Protection Control RPC II Region 1 Changes User 4 Changes Vendor 4 Disc Information (F:\) +------------------ Type no disc inserted Hardware Information +------------------- CPU Intel Pentium 4 2800 MHz Bus Speed 200 MHz Motherboard http://www.abit.com.tw/ IS7/IS7-G/IS7-E(Intel i865-ICH5) System BIOS Phoenix 6.00 PG Memory 1024 MB Sound Realtek AC97 Audio Video RADEON 9250 ASPI Information +--------------- System ASPI ASPI is not installed Nero ASPI ASPI is installed and working properly wnaspi32.dll 2.0.1.74 164112 bytes November 02, 2004 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nero InfoTool 4.03 Disc Information (F:\) +------------------ Type DVD-R Capacity 309:46.34 (-969 MB) Tracks 1 Sessions 1 File System ISO9660, Joliet, UDF Title Multimedia Archi Date 22 January 2006 Publisher n/a Application EASY CD CREATOR 6.1 (007) COPYRIGHT © 1999-2003 ROXIO, INC.

Yes, I updated it to v 1.29 from 1.27. From other sites I found it suggested booting from the cdrom and if it isn't recognized in that situation then it is a problem with the drive. It also said the cdrom & dvd portions are somewhat independent, having separate lazers and such. Looks like I need another drive unless there are any other suggestions? Thanks, Mark

What am I missing Using the DVI output from an ATI 9200SE and plugging into a wide format projector. On boot, the dos screen comes up and is recognized as 640x400. The windows splash screen comes up with the same resolution. After that nothing comes up. I'm experimenting with configurations using the RCA connector between the two and the image comes across that way (poorly of course), but why not the DVI connection? I installed the latest ATI Catalyst and it recognizes the projector, Sharp dt300. Any help's appreciated.

I tried the 800x600@70Hz and a couple others, but no change in results. The other interesting aspect is the DT300 provides one DVI port, but accesses it as analog or digital. The boot screens show up as analog inputs through the DVI and absolutely nothing comes through the DVI as digital. Is the video card actually putting analog signals through the DVI connection and I shouldn't expect the projector to see a true digital input?

I'm told that you can upgrade CPUs without reinstalling WinXP. Is there any procedure for this? Maybe uninstalling certain hardware before the upgrade and allowing WinXP to recognize the new CPU hardware? I couldn't find anything on microsofts site. It shouldn't matter, but it is a dual CPU mbo, going from PII's to PIIIs.

The system boots fine up till completion of the IDE discovery step. Then the board's speaker beeps continuously. The system will continue to boot fine into WinXP, just continuing to Beep. The only Beep Error Info on an Award BIOS is for Video Card error. When the OS is up, it recognizes the Video Adapter correctly (ATI Radeon 9200SE) and shows no conflicts, IRQ etc. The motherboard is ASUS P2B-D supporting AGP, 1x & 2x. The 9200 SE supports 2x, 4x & 8x AGP. What can the motherboard/BIOS be signalling by the constant Beep? Thanks

Duplicate Posting.

Thanks for ATI AGP Chart. I notice that the 9200 is AGP v3.0 and though the documentation for the motherboard doesn't specify, I'd guess it's at AGP v1.0. Do you know if AGP 3.0 is backwards compatible with AGP 1.0? Since the 9200 appears to work, I don't think this would cause the motherboard/bios conflict. I had reviewed the IRQ's and cleared that out. Also I had disabled the game port. Do you know if what's the risk of disabling the motherboard speaker and continuing to use it as is?

PS-The 9200 SE was running fine in a different computer. The ASUS P2B-D, also accepts an old S3-Trio AGP card with no problems(no beeping).