Win2K SP3 broke my DVDs

[whytless physh]

Hey All,

I'm having a dickens of a time with burning DVDs since I installed Win2K SP3. The symptoms are as follows:

Using Nero 5.5.9.0 (or any other buring apps for that matter), the file cache works but the entire app freezes on actually accessing the DVD device. It locks hard. No other apps will run while this is happening. CPU usage is nill. Soft-booting won't work. I have to hit the reset switch to get control back. Here's the real kicker; it works perfectly if I attempt to burn a CD.

I had the same problem with XP so I switched back to 2K thinking it would solve the problem. Everything was peachy until SP3 came along. Whatever broke it in XP is now in SP3. I've tried downgrading the UDFS.sys file to the SP2 version with no luck. What I have discovered is that booting to safe mode will allow me to burn both CDs and DVDs. This smacks of a driver issue but damned if I can determine which one. Nothing has changed on my box except installing SP3. Has anyone seen or heard anything like this before?

SYSTEM STATS:

Asus A7M266-D
Dual Athlon 1900+MP
2gig Infineon DDR266 (4 sticks 512mb)
ATI Radeon 8500DV AGP (primary) Catalyst 2.2 drivers
Promise TX2-RAID (PCI64 slot 2) 2.0.25 drivers
Voodoo 3 (secondary - PCI slot 3) Omega 1.03B drivers
3COM 3C905B NIC (PCI slot 4) latest drivers (version unknown)
Asus USB 2.0 Card (PCI Slot 5) Asus 1.01 drivers

HP DVD100i DVD+RW firmware 1.37 (it was a GIFT!)
Panasonic LF-D310 DVD-RAM
2 WD 80gig special edition drives in RAID-0
1 WD 40gig Boot
1 WD 40gig Apps

Win2K SP3
AMD IDE Driver 1.43S
AMD AGP Driver 5.33
AMD Power Management Driver 1.22s

All this sits in a Koolance 602-BW water-cooled case which is a thing of beauty.

Let me know if anyone out there can help with this problem.

[lattedfw]

I replied to another post with the following information.

I applied a bunch of Windows 2000 service packs and upgraded to Windows Media Player 7.1 with its service packs. This was on one of my PCs that doesn't have a DVD burner, but has a CD-ROM and a CD-R/RW drive. Neither CD drive was recognized after I did that- apparently there was a driver conflict.

I uninstalled Windows Media Player, which left the original lean 'n' mean media player that came with Windows 2000. I had to reinstall my CD burning software as well, but the drives came back and I was once again able to burn CDs.

Another thing to check is to go to Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs. Select Windows Media Player. Click to 'Change' the installation. Select a list of components and uninstall the Adaptec CD burning plug in that Windows Media Player installs.

My other PC with the DVD burner seems OK so far. With the new .Net service that the latest service pack installed, Win2k downloads fixes and patches a couple times a week, it seems. I have it set to ask me before downloading and installing, but I'll be more careful in the future.

[Xesdeeni]

Be careful with those Win2K service packs.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26517.html

Xesdeeni

[Boonchai]

I have dual amd with Tyan mobo 3x80gigs HD, 1 120 gigs HD with Promise Ultra TX2 ATA(non raid). Having all kind of burning apps problems off & on. Had to reinstalls Win XP Pro at least every month.
Once I reformatted $ reinstalled OS more than ten times in a week.
Since disable and taken out Promise Ide controller with latest XP drivers nearly two months now. I'm having no more problems.

Now after installed latest XP update of June 22,2002. IFOEdit doesn't work ( I know XP doesn't like IFOEdit) but it's works for me 2 weeks ago.

regards,
Boonchai

[King Dick]

I have to agree with "lattedfw" about Windows Media Player 7 upwards. Because I have had problems before with WMP7 I reinstalled my system some months back with WMP6.4. This morning I have installed SP3 for Windows 2000 and everything works fine - I have just burnt a 2 hour DVD +RW using Nero 5.5.9.0 on an HP100i, no problems.
My feelings about WMP7 is that if you do not need the facilities it provides
(e.g. listening and downloading from radio broadcasts) do not install it.
Hope this helps some of you that are having problems.

[whytless physh]

Let me say thanks to all who have replied. I knew someone out there was having the same issues. If uninstalling WMP7 will fix it, that POS gone. I use ZoomPlayer for most things anyway. I'll give it a go and let everyone know the results. Thanks once again for you advice.

-wp

[lattedfw]

I want to add to my previous experience with Windows Media Player 7.1.

I installed it on my P-4 1.7GHz machine running Windows 2000 SP3 with a DVR-A03 burner. I attempted to burn a data disc to DVD-R and DVD-RW and in each case got an "Error -8 at sector 16." Even trying to burn one small MP3 file produced the same error. I had burned many times to the -RW disc, so I ruled out a bad disc. It doesn't seem to have made coasters out of the DVD-R discs- it failed very early in the burn process, so it may not actually have begun to write to the disc.

The fix:
I uninstalled Windows Media Player 7.1 and reinstalled Prassi PrimoDVD 2 (came with the drive). No more errors. I went through a similar process on another, older machine to get my CD burner working again.