Pavilion 754n DVD writer problem

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Ok, last year I found a 754n pavilion in the dumpster outside a
Servepro (fire damage cleaning biz). It had obviously been on in a
smoke filled room, but had no visible damage. The HDD had been
stripped and that's it. I took it home, discovered the power supply
had burned out. Instead of paying the $180 bucks for a new hp power
supply, I got a fancy ass new tower for $50 with a power supply. So
I clean everything off, swap everything over, turn it on, it runs
like a dream, no problem. Almost.
It has a DVD writer in it and I can't get it to work. It will read
CD's and DVD's, but won't write anything or play DVDs(the title
screen will come up, but I get an error every time I try to play). I
installed and am running GTA San Andreas off it so it can't be damaged
too bad.
I use Nero and it won't let me select it even. Since the HDD was
missing, I downloaded all the drivers for it and it asks me everytime
I turn it on to look for new firmware for it, but it still doesn't
work. Anyone run into something like this before?
Thanks.
Pat.

 

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Suggestion: Replace the drive. You've already gotten your money's worth.

If you want to persist, try a vendor-agnostic CD/DVD burning package like
CDBurnerXPPro. It's free and works with most any drive.

It's possible that the version of Nero you installed does not have the drive
make/model in its list of acceptable drives... Ben Myers

On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:32:15 GMT, meyerp006@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid
(meyerp006) wrote:

>Ok, last year I found a 754n pavilion in the dumpster outside a
>Servepro (fire damage cleaning biz). It had obviously been on in a
>smoke filled room, but had no visible damage. The HDD had been
>stripped and that's it. I took it home, discovered the power supply
>had burned out. Instead of paying the $180 bucks for a new hp power
>supply, I got a fancy ass new tower for $50 with a power supply. So
>I clean everything off, swap everything over, turn it on, it runs
>like a dream, no problem. Almost.
>It has a DVD writer in it and I can't get it to work. It will read
>CD's and DVD's, but won't write anything or play DVDs(the title
>screen will come up, but I get an error every time I try to play). I
>installed and am running GTA San Andreas off it so it can't be damaged
>too bad.
>I use Nero and it won't let me select it even. Since the HDD was
>missing, I downloaded all the drivers for it and it asks me everytime
>I turn it on to look for new firmware for it, but it still doesn't
>work. Anyone run into something like this before?
>Thanks.
>Pat.
>

 

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Thanks for the advice, CDBurnerXPPro worked perfectly.

Pat.