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Article #627Re: DVD Problems.......HELP PLEASE!!
From: Craig
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 08:32
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 08:32
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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...... I don't think anyone will find a firmware update at www.firmware.fr.st cause that would be just naughty. > 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 > > remove NO_SPAM to reply by Email
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 104164,1defd28b2d34b97d X-Google-Attributes: gid104164,public X-Google-Thread: 1153bc,1defd28b2d34b97d X-Google-Attributes: gid1153bc,public X-Google-Thread: 107044,1defd28b2d34b97d X-Google-Attributes: gid107044,public X-Google-Thread: 106e5e,1defd28b2d34b97d X-Google-Attributes: gid106e5e,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-01 01:32:20 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newspeer.monmouth.com!203.97.37.7!news.xtra.co.nz!not-for-mail From: "Craig" <cokekid@i4freedotco.nz> Newsgroups: nz.comp,alt.video.dvd.tech,aus.dvd,rec.video.dvd.tech References: <MPG.15fb3e3b2995c889989686@news.paradise.net.nz> Subject: Re: DVD Problems.......HELP PLEASE!! Lines: 57 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Message-ID: <n21k7.2013$Q_.283457@news.xtra.co.nz> Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 20:32:44 +1200 NNTP-Posting-Host: 210.55.118.167 X-Complaints-To: newsadmin@xtra.co.nz X-Trace: news.xtra.co.nz 999333139 210.55.118.167 (Sat, 01 Sep 2001 20:32:19 NZST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 20:32:19 NZST Organization: Xtra