NEC DVD drive problems with vista 64

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drzaus

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Cutting to the chase...I have a NEC ND-3520A DVD reader/burner. The problem is that vista doesn't recognize any dvd movies I put into it!

I believe this is a driver problem, as I've flashed to the newest firmware and problem persists. But NEC doesn't have drivers, its based on windows supplying a driver.

Any help/ideas are greatly appreciated.
 
well thanks for a reply but they only supply firmware not a driver....
 
I'm not sure where you are getting the idea of a driver problem, because optical drives always used the Windows supplied driver. It sounds more like a codec problem, or a conflict with other software, such as media players, not allowing the discs to be seen. Just to clarify, are the discs not playing, or not even being detected at all?
 
The drive does not see any disks at all.
The drive worked fine to install vista 64, so yes the drive works.
I believe it has been mentioned on several forums about this problem, and yes it is believed to be a vista driver problem.

It may be that vista doesn't support this device anymore....and I'm simply screwed.

Again, If you have any ideas please comment.
 
Funny, I just replaced it with an older manufactured Benq DVD and it works fine....vista detected and installed drivers....

Looks like this NEC dvd player is no longer supported....
 
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