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nandrews
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_ 		27. September 2007 @ 01:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I have an NEC DVD-RW ND-3500AG drive which has worked well for many months. Recently tho' I find that if I insert any disc (DVD/CD blank or otherwise) then the PC reboots and will keep rebooting until I eject the disk!
I find I can get the PC to successfully boot if I insert the disc early on in the boot process. Just after it has checked the drives and before it would check for auto boot on a CD (tho' I have changed the boot sequence). If I insert the disc before or after then the reboot will occur, but not immediately but upto 10 - 15 seconds after!
When I can successfully load a blank DVD then it will burn O.K.

Can anyone suggest what might be wrong?
Thanks

Nigel
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Mr_Del
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_ 		13. October 2007 @ 03:36 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Go into device manager. Delete the drive and hit scan for new hardware or hit F-5. This will reinstall the drive and may fix it. If not then the drive may be bad.

-Del
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nandrews
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_ 		13. October 2007 @ 03:54 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Del,

Thanks for that I will give it a try.
The drive works fine once I can get a disc in and the PC staying up.
That is it burns fine and the discs are quite readable on other PC's.

I seem to have found one way to make it keep up once I insert a disc. If I keep selecting different folders on the HD within Explorer, just after I push the DVD drawer in. It seems to keep the system busy and somehow stops the reboot. But not everytime!

Nigel
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