Re: Corrupted CD/DVD drive names in BIOS and registry
- From: philo <philo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 15:36:17 -0600
david.f.jenkins@xxxxxxx wrote:
I have been fighting problems encountered when trying to burn CDs and DVDs on my Dell XPS Gen 4. During marathon calls to Dell support, I've reinstalled drivers, drives, reseated cables, taken out registry entries, rebooted a minimum of 100 times (maybe 100,000 - I've lost count) , etc. I'm now able to burn CDs and DVDs, but I've had to switch to Nero from the Dell-supplied burner software (SONIC RecordNow! Plus) in order to do so.
During all that troubleshooting, I was using the SONIC software to test. I noticed at one point that the drive names SONIC was offering were not the real drive names, but were in fact corrupted versions of those names. As a matter of fact, random characters in the names had been changed by the alteration of a single bit in the ASCII character - "SAMSUNG" became "SAMQULG", "R/RW" became "P/PW", "DVD" became "DTD" etc. - how in the world could that happen? I chalked that up to buggy SONIC software, until I looked at the drive names in the BIOS, where they were also corrupted. At that point, it "felt" like hardware (single bit drops/picks).
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i have seen that many times... and it was always traced to the ide being either defective or not having a good connection. unplug both ends and replug firmly... it that does not solve the problem...replace the cable .
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