Endless loop (pls restart PC) with DRU-500A 1.0f install :(

[VEFF]

I had no problems whatsoever upgrading my
DRU-500A from 1.0c to 1.0d (hooked up to my Promise Ultra100 ATA100
controller card.

HOWEVER, tonight I tried updating it to 1.0f, and the &^$%$ program
keeps telling me to restart the PC before the upgrade is run.
The problem is that no matter how many times I restart, the updater issues the exact same error message!

I tried hooking the burner up to my onboard IDE controller (even though I didn't neeed to do so for my 1.0c to 1.0d upgrade) , but that didn't help
either.
I got the same annoying message.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[ferrari]

if all else failed, try to upgrade in windows safe mode? anyone else has any other idea? i upgraded mine without turning off dma and only need to reboot once before and once after. the computer didn't freeze up at the end this time for me.

[VEFF]

if all else failed, try to upgrade in windows safe mode? anyone else has any other idea? i upgraded mine without turning off dma and only need to reboot once before and once after. the computer didn't freeze up at the end this time for me.

I just noticed a post about that somewhere else as well.
Thanks I'll try it now.

Not sure why 1.0d worked so easily.

[VEFF]

Tried Safe mode; still no luck.

[ghoster]

i had to close out everything before i could get my computer to restart otherwise it would lock up.

[VEFF]

i had to close out everything before i could get my computer to restart otherwise it would lock up.

Thanks for the tip.
I had already closed all my apps and anti-virus pgms.
However, thanks to your tip, I decided to close down a few things in Task Manager (iTouch.exe, emexec.exe, winscheduler.exe; I left the other 40 odd processes running - I have Win XP Pro, amnd didn't wnat to close processes down, unless I was sure what they were for and whether they would be safe to kill).

That seems to have done the trick, in that it now doesn't ask me to restart first.
I'll flash it now and post my results.

EDIT:
Killing 3 or 4 processes (out of about 40) did the trick. Everything went smoothly after that. I now have 1.0fLike with 1.0d, I did NOT have to disable DMA.

Word of warning for the impatient out there:
The progress bar update code isn't too great - It may seem like it is hanging (when the progress bar stays at the same % complete for a while), just give it a minute or so. Then the bar jumps to 100% all of a sudden.

[Wookie]

I had the same problem.... Killed a few processes... stopped all apps running...and the drive flashed fine...

I've burned eight DVD's since last night..... All worked no probs....
I even tried some of the budget media and they work aswell but they only burnt at 1x...... I give 1.0f a big thumbs up

2 Ritek "Gold/Purple" 2X DVD-R good burn 1 Data 1 DVD
1 FWS 1x good burn 1 Data
1 Choice DVD-R 2x good burn 1 DVD
2 Budget DVD-R www.discplanet.com good burn 1 Data 1 DVD
1 Verbatim 2.4X DVD+R good burn 1 data
1 Princo DVD-R good burn 1 DVD

[ohhowhappy]

Thanks for the report wookie. :P What burnware are you using?

[Scorp121z]

I have upgrade successfully to 1.0f
but i find read speeds of dvd video roms haven.t increased to 4.0 as Sony said they should.With smartripper and dvd drcrypter max read speed is still 2.0 max as it was with 1.0 d.
Anybody else found the same?

[-jsl-]

DVD Video reading was not said to increase, only reading of data DVD±R. The 2x ripping speed is a "MPAA feature" that several new DVD-ROM/writers have...