Convert NEC 1100 to NEC 1300 ?

[lordsmurf]

Has anybody done this, and gotten it to burn DVD-R fine?

[sjc160]

I have burned a few DVD-R and DVD-RW with my converted Dell 1100A to 1300 and everything has been fine. Although I mostly use my 3520A simply because it offers faster speeds and Dual Layer capabilities.

[edDV]

I have a secondary NEC-1100A.
All ears.

[lenti_75]

I did it, worked fine, -R and -RW, but I don't have it anymore.

I used herrie firmware.

[ofbarea]

The Dell I used to have had a NEC that I x-flashed to NEC 1300. It worked very good for me. A frien of mine had the very same machine with the same drive but his NEC 1100 was never able to -R media. no matter what firmware we used.

I would say the x-flasing will work most of the time, but there will be some unsuported drives out there.

[j1d10t]

How would you go about doing this? I'd be very interested in getting my 1100A drive to burn -R..... Some instructions would be nice

[drjtech]

Check out the NEC forum at cdfreaks:

http://forum.cdfreaks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=86

Plenty of info on flashing bios to upgrade NEC drives with feedback on what works....and what doesn't.

-drj

[Jestak]

Greetings,

I did the conversion more than one year ago and it runs without almost any glitch on +-R, +-RW.

The only issue I am having since the conversion is sometimes DVD Decrypter issuing an error msg at the beginning of the burn. The trick is to reboot my computer.

It is unfortunate with +-R because the disc is wasted, but for the +-RW I don't lose the disc.

Thank you

[j1d10t]

Check out the NEC forum at cdfreaks:

http://forum.cdfreaks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=86

Plenty of info on flashing bios to upgrade NEC drives with feedback on what works....and what doesn't.

-drj

Thanks for the info - I flashed mine and now it just burnt a -R with no problams. I'm going to pick up some -RWs and see how they work, but I mainly wanted the -R ability, so I'm happy Just saved me some money since I don't have to go buy a new +/- burner

[lordsmurf]

Link should be http://club.cdfreaks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=86

searching that forum, you find this:
http://etna.rpc1.org/nec/nec1100%20to%201300.html