🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi to you all

Got a couple of problems with my DVD that someone may be able to shed 
some light on hopefully.(and excuse the length of post !!)

1st problem is finding out anything about it. 

It is a MUSTEK MRM-0824. I purchased it about 6 months ago (in New 
Zealand) and have been to Mustek's web site and there is no info 
available at all. They do not even list it there and I have searched for 
hours on their site for any info. Is it in fact made by them or is it a 
rebadged model from another maker? If so can anyone shed some light on 
who ? I was looking for firmware upgrade or patch for it and found 
ziltch. Reason for doing so was due to problem 2......

That problem was weird behavior under win200 pro. When 2000 was first 
installed it worked fine then began to refuse to eject CDs with the 
button on front panel. Could only do so from windows using eject in 
explorer etc.

Then one day out of the blue a dialog box popped up saying it could be 
set to region of choice and changed another 4 times. I set it to 4 and 
hoped for the best. It also said that no matter the OS used or even 
machine used it would still limit it to 4 more chasnges. I deduced that 
it must then be hardware locked and that I would be stuck with that 
region.

Later on a week or 2 later it refused to read CDs,DVDs,CD-Rs etc at all. 
No way would it work at all. I came to the conclusion that it was stuffed 
and thought about removing it later.
I subsequently removed 2000 and went back to win98 and even then all the 
above problems still remained.

Yesterday I accidentally run a diagnostics program showing DVD regions 
and firmware revisions.( Drive Region Info ver 1.1) I was actually trying 
to run a CDR utility and clicked on wrong one !!!! It reminded me to do 
something about the DVD so I chucked in a DVD disc and was about to run a 
benchmark/DVD diagnostic proggie when out of the blue Power DVD fired up 
and the movie started !!!!!

So what was going on with the damn thing or is it just a stuffed unit 
that will likely die soon ? 
Any ideas especially what I could do to prevent it happening again.

Thanks for any ideas

Bazz

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