just bough a new Liteon 16 x SHW-1635
Installed it as master, with a DVD ROM as slave
Booted PC. Windows recognises drive ok. No problems on device manager, it appears as tho it is working fine.
Nero Drive info tool looks fine.
Problem is as soon as I try to get it to read a disk.
Put a DVD in - nothing happens
Audio CD - After massive delay I can open the drive to see the audio files, but when i try to play them nothing happens.
Data cd - v e r y s l o w. pretty much unusable.
Have I just bought a dodgy drive? Could it be a faulty laser?
or is it my system it doesn't like.
Am gonna have to take it back, but no point in exchanging if the next one aint gonna work either.
Am running XP sp2 on AMD AThlon 3000+ w/ 512Mb Ram
Just wanted to let you know I just bought the same burner last night and I'm having no problems what so ever. Working great, better than I thought it would be. I've never purchased a Liton product before and I was a little unsure, but I'm very satified.
I'd like to sneak in and borrow this thread as I'm having what appears to be the exact same problem. Only this is an upgraded PC and the drive worked flawlessly before when it was a decrepid P4 with 512mb of sdram. Now it's a 2ghz Opteron with 2GB of PC3200 with a Sata hard drive and the thing is driving me nuts. It recognizes discs pretty quickly and I can view the contents, but when I goto click on anything there's a long delay, and heaven forbid if I try to copy something to my harddrive, after about 3 minutes a window comes up stated it'll take about 50 minutes. The drive is set to Master and is the only device on any IDE channel as the HD is on Sata (via the mobo, not a pci card).
I just installed a Sony DW Q30A (which is oem Lite-on 1635s). And had similar trouble to yours when trying to run under Windows XP Home. However, I have a dual boot Linux (Slackware 10.1) and with THIS os the Q30a performed flawlessly.
Back to Windows and tried "Safe mode". The Q30A worked perfectly!
Back to normal mode - complete mess and could not read/write any type of disk as before.
After investigation discovered that the problem was a conflict with my HP Internal IDE Colarado 20GB tape backup device (on the same IDE). When I disconnected the power lead from this device the Q30A also works perfectly under Windows XP normal mode.
Explanation? Windows XP Safe mode does not load the Colarado drivers! Similarly I use TAR for linux backup so there's no driver and nothing to kick off the conflict when using Linux. By the way - my previous NEC drive (DVD single layer) did NOT show any of this type of problem - the Q30A/1635s seems to be susceptible to it in my installation.
I hope the above helps. NOW I still have a problem trying to get my Colarado and Sony devices to work TOGETHER. Any SUGGESTIONS gratefully received.
