Hi, bought this DVD burner the other day and came to install it yesterday. I thought all was going well as it was opening, green light was coming on at the start, et cetera; but for some reason it isn't being detected by the PC.
I'm not entirely sure what could have gone wrong, I have my LiteOn CD-Rw connected to it, which was previously connected to an LG DVD-Rom drive which I had no problems with. When I went to put the NEC 3500a in, I just swopped the cables (not really knowing what they were for), from the LG for the NEC. The one with yellow/red wires, and the big one which seems to connect them both.
Anything I should have done regarding wires? Something I didn't plug in correctly?
Look at the jumper settings on the drive you removed. If it was set as "slave", you probably should set the new DVD burner as "master" and use the cable end now pluugged into the CD-R. Reset the CD-R to slave and connect with the remaing cable plug. Thus the new drive will be master and the CD-R as slave.
If Cable Select was the jumper setting, all of the drives should have jumpers indicating this setting. Then if things still don't work right, could still try reversing the order of drives connecting to the flat cable.
If all of the above fails, it is possible that two burners won't coexist on the same IDE channel in your system and you'll have to take out the CD-R and put the DVD-ROM back in (as a slave or cable select jumper setting as the case may be).
I am having problems too. I have Ritek G04 but I can only burn at 1.6x but Nero says its burning at 4x but DVD Decrypter really burns slow as well and it even admits it burns at 1.6x. I just got service pack 2, it didnt solve the prob, what do I do?
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
1.81Ghz w/ Venice Core
Zalman CNPS-7000B-Cu HSF
1024mb DDR Ram
160gb Hard Drive
Radeon Sapphire X600 Pro 128mb Graphics Card (PCI-Express)
NEC ND-3500A
Ritek G04s
PS2 30001 R
Running on Windows XP w/ Service Pack 2
Quote: I am having problems too. I have Ritek G04 but I can only burn at 1.6x but Nero says its burning at 4x but DVD Decrypter really burns slow as well and it even admits it burns at 1.6x. I just got service pack 2, it didnt solve the prob, what do I do?
I can burn the G04's fine @ 4x and I'm using the 3500A and have SP1. I'd recommend updating the firmware. That may help.
I have downloaded and used the latest firmware, v2.18 also I recently got forceASPI and I re-installed my nero. Hope it works, I am going to test a disc soon. I also have DMA mode on from before.
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
1.81Ghz w/ Venice Core
Zalman CNPS-7000B-Cu HSF
1024mb DDR Ram
160gb Hard Drive
Radeon Sapphire X600 Pro 128mb Graphics Card (PCI-Express)
NEC ND-3500A
Ritek G04s
PS2 30001 R
Running on Windows XP w/ Service Pack 2
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