Nero 5.5.n.n (non) burning and RPCII

[Dunk]

Hi all,

Got myself a NEC ND-2500 last week after much deliberation as to whether to buy a dvd writer.

I have a couple of problems that I hope someone can help me with.

1. I installed the ND-2500 as the secondary master in my system and moved a LG-GCC4480 combo drive to 2nd slave. I flashed the firmware on the ND-2500 for rpc2 ok and restarted the machine. I then tried to flash the combo drive but it failed and Windows disabled both drives and wouldn't let me re-enable them. I had to delete both drives under system manager and restart. Can anyone suggest how to flash the combo drive?

2. I can't get Nero 5.5.n.n to see the dvd-rw! I have tried installing Nero ASPI and Force ASPI but it still won't see the drive! I have downloaded a demo version of Nero 6.3.16 and that works ok. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance
Dunk

System details
GigaByte GA-7VA motherboard, AMD Athlon 2600XP, 512Mb PC2700 RAM, C:\80G Seagate Barracuda, D:\17Gb Maxtor Diamond Max, E:\NEC ND2500, F:\LG GCC4480

[Dimmer]

Hi and welcome to the forums.

You certainly meant that you flashed the drive for RPC-1 since RPC-2 is the region-protected mode the drives come with. Here's a great site about flashing: http://forum.rpc1.org/portal.php. There is a link to your combo drive firmware on that site: http://tdb.rpc1.org/#GCC4480B.

However, if you already messed up the combo drive by flashing to the extent that Windows won't recognize it, these is a chance that it'll be easier/cheaper to throw it away than fixing it. After all, you don't really need it since you got a DVD burner unless you do a lot of on-the-fly CD-copying. Remember that flashing can easily damage your drive and certainly voids the warranty.

Nero 5.5 is relatively an old version while ND2500 is a new model, so there is a chance Nero won't recognize the drive. Why don't you use ver. 6 since it works fine for you; it's not any worse than ver.5.5.

[Dunk]

Did indeed mean that I flashed the ND-2500 with firmware for RPC1. Got the firmware for the combo drive from rpc1.org.

Drive isn't goosed. After removing both drives from device manager and restarting, windows sees them both ok. Trying to flash the combo again gives same story.

Problem with using Nero 6 is that it's a demo version I have and would have to cough up more money to get full version :-{
Should have paid the extra £5 to get it when I bought the dvd-rw.

[killingspree]

does dvddecrypter see the drives?

[Dunk]

As long as I haven't tried to flash the combo after removing them under system devices and restarting then all programs see the drives.

I think I've sussed this. Reading the notes about flashing firmware again, I should be doing this under dos! Dozy f***er I am.