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"kELTIC kNIGHT" <bazz22@NO_SPAMorcon.net.nz> wrote in message
news:MPG.15fb3e3b2995c889989686@news.paradise.net.nz...
> 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

I would say, sell it while it's still going, and let some other poor sod
worry about it.  The quality of it could be a bit suspect.  A search about
it on the net, showed up nothing.

E. Scrooge