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"kELTIC kNIGHT" <bazz22@NO_SPAMorcon.net.nz> wrote in message
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> 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

"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
>
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In article <MPG.15fb3e3b2995c889989686@news.paradise.net.nz>, 
bazz22@NO_SPAMorcon.net.nz says...
> 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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Un-*FU**ING*_believable........ 
have just rebooted the machine and now find it has reverted back to being 
unaccessible.It had a CD_RW disc in it that I had copied some stuff off 
earlier today and now will not read it or any other disk.

Get error message in windows as follows..

G:\ is not accessible
The device is not ready

Retry		Cancel

So now am back to square one again.

Bazz

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In article <gve1pt0qft0ai0rlilbao4crapvsv40umr@4ax.com>, 
roger.s@paradise.net.nz says...

> Do you Smoke, ? if so then its stuffed, if not the Lasers  Lens could have dust on
> them, very common for Computers to suck in dust..
Nope.

> 
> You will have to get it removed and cleaned a cleaning CD will no work for DVD..

Any ideas on how to clean it myself ??

> 
> Find out who are the Mustek agents are and give them a ring...

Am looking into that on Monday
> 
> WIN 2k has its own region counter and can be reset..
> 
> Use the DVD Info Utile to see if it can talk to the drive as this does not use a
> disk..
Yep. Used a couple of these utilities and they all can see and talk to 
the drive. Give the model no 0824 and firmware rev 1.05

> 
> This could be a NZ model as I can't get any hits with that number at all..
Yeah I too have had the same problem. Tried all sorts of search engines 
and have done all the DVD sites to death. Have even Emailed Mustek 
themselves but have had no reply yet. I did find one NZ site that had 
them listed still for sale so may chase that up for NZ agent.

All in all it is bloody frustrating

Bazz

kELTIC kNIGHT <bazz22@NO_SPAMorcon.net.nz> writes:

> > 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 it has an FCC ID on the bottom (I have yet to see a computer
peripheral that doesn't), you can enter it at
http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/ to find out the real manufacturer.