DVD NEC 1300a Knightmare burner

[TomKatt]

Hi all back again,

I am realy giving up now I have tried everything with this drive, all the software rippers, all the media disk if is not power calibration problems its can see the files, ho DVD copy to DVD works bugger all else,

NERO ULTRA hates it
DVD X COPY hates it
Clone DVD the same
DVD encripter the same
FAB DVD the same
SHRINK the same


Theres nothing else to use on it, NEC made this drive, me thinks not to work with anything else by the looks of it. Now I have sent them an email telling that this burner must be a joke. I have now spend 6 days trying to sort this out with one DVD copied the rest in the bin. When it dose burn one it comes back with unknown file format

If the is someone out there that knows the asnwer to this tell me, what a week and lots of sleeplest nights on this, I fell like a headless chicken nothing has ever beaten me like this, but this has.

I set my DVD and other devices to this;
D:\ DVD ROM to slave
F:\ CD RW to slave
E:\ DVD burner to master

if I change anything about the PC will not start up, the wire in the back that goes to the motherboard is in the DVD RW as that's the way the set up was with the CD writer, or have a got this wrong as well. What am I to do, a mate of mine said he was thinking of me going on suisdie watch as I an going complety off me head with this. If any one cane give me an email addy I have it all on power point to show what has been happing anything will do at this time, why did I spend my birthday money on a pice of crap like this??????

Jon

[Vejita-sama]

Have you tried exchanging the drive for another one? In the end if DVD Decrypter isn't working and the drive is setup correctly (master/slave, jumpers, cable secure, etc) it's a pretty simple process.

[TomKatt]

Hi,

Went I try to do that from the above the PC will not start up, windows will not load. What do u surgest?

I have the

D:\ dvd rom set to slave
E:\ DVD writer to master with the wire going into the m/board
F:\ cd writer slave?

Is there any other comfig I can try?

[gll99]

if I change anything about the PC will not start up, the wire in the back that goes to the motherboard is in the DVD RW as that's the way the set up was with the CD writer

Do you mean the ide controller ribbon?
Sorry but if you have a problem with that, I almost hate to ask if you set the jumpers on the drive properly?

Some people have reported problems putting both a cd writer and a DVD writer either on the same ide controller or even in the same system probably caused by driver conflicts. I have my NEC on the secondary IDE as master and my dvd-rom as slave also on the secondary controller and I know that works ok but I left my cd writer out because I have 2 hd on the primary.

The nec1300a is a good drive so you didn't make a mistake buying it. It is possible to get a bad drive from any manufacturer but that would not be the first thing I would blame.

My next question would be what type of media did you try and what media code.

[TomKatt]

Hi,

Its not the big ribbion but the smaller wire I was refering to the one that goes into the mother board and the back of the writer. Maybe that what I need to no it disbale the CD RW and see if that makes a change to it, but its just dispare now

I will try that in the morning after some sleep I just cant think stright any more 6 days the hours I have spend on this you would not belive, but I still cant get over how it did a DVD to DVD disk copy in nero without any problems????, but trying to use anything else with it then the fun starts?

as for the media you asked about these are Datawrite yellow the code you asked me for is that the printed numbers near the hole of the disk. I would not mind but I have been buring mp3's for over 12 months, also had a PC for 10 years so I know what i am doing but this just gets me
Jon

[gll99]

That wire is an audio cable. You have an onboard audio card and all that does is allow the sound from the DVD burner to get to the sound card so you can hear it. Otherwise you would have to plug earphones on the front of the burner when playing a cd or dvd.

[TomKatt]

so where am i going wrong then?

[wulf109]

Most motherboards have two 40-pin IDE connectors. They are used for hard drives and Cd or DVD drives. Never place a HD and a CD/DVD on the same ribbon cable. Normal setup would be your HD on the #1 IDE cable, Your DVD writer jumpered as master and you DVD-ROM jumpered as slave on the #2 IDE connector. All drives have jumper on them to set them as master,slave, or cable select.

[TomKatt]

I have done all that thats how its always been but I have now disbaled the cd rw so I am encoding from dvd shrink its when I go to nero the fun starts

[J3M]

I have the same drive as you, and Nero did have problems with it. I downloaded the latest update for 5.5 (which is 5.5.10.54 I believe) and it now recognizes the drive no problem. Haven't tried Nero 6 with it, but I would assume it would work as well.

[Gazorgan]

I have the same drive and zero problems.

If you thought it was the Audio cable, then well, your not smart enough to be opening the case. Close it up and call a technical friend. It will take him (less than 0.5% chance of it being a her) less than 3 minutes to fix it.


1) Dump the CDRW, it's probably in PIO mode and will cause problems.

2) Set the jumpers on the DVDRW to master (or master no slave, or single).

3) Plug the DVDRW into the cable by itself (you have a HD and a DVDROM on the other cable, yes?).

4) When you boot, bring up the BIOS screen. Make sure that AUTO is selected for all IDE devices. You may also want to force an Autodetect.


That takes care of the hardware. As to software, you need the latest ASPI drivers. You also need a DVDRW rated version of Nero (like 6.3.x.x).

DVDDecryptor doesnt' like the NEC 1300a, it's a known bug. DVDShrink uses Nero burning engine (see above).

[TomKatt]

I did dump the CD RW and its OK now must have caused a conflict between the 2


thanks


Jon