Problem with a NEC-5330A DVD, it just wont play DVD's!!!!

[mj2000uk]

Hi all

Recently bought my first DVD drive and bought it with a software bundle that includes PowerDVD 6.0. The DVD drive is an NEC 3550A.

I have the drive installed as a master on my machine and the unit is working and recognised in the device manager.

My problem is that it just wont work with DVD's. I doesnt read or write to them but it will explore them.

More specifically, when I try to play a DVD, I have tried a few, they are all original copies so lets take Star Wars EPIII for example, it will play the opening warning screen and then when the DVD is meant to cut to the title menu, it just stops and closes playing.

Other DVD's it will momenterally pop up a window to look like its about to play and then close off.

I have also tried the drive using Nero 7.0 with the same results....am I assume that the drive is faulty or do you have any suggestions.

It runs from a driver which is part of the Win XP package and I have upgraeded its firmware from 1.5 to 1.6 via the NEC site.

Help please!!!

Mike

[bmiller]

Your hard drive should be the primary master,and the burner should be primary on the secondary buss.If that's the way you have it then it doesn't look good.Did you have a burner or dvd rom drive installed before?