I have an acer 2010 CD-RW drive with firmware version H.DF

I recnetly flashed the firmware from Version H.DF to H.PF which is the latest on ur site.

Although the flasing went well, and a "successful" msg was displayed at the end of the process, after re-starting my computer, the drive now no longer detects any CD's placed in it. It acts as though there is no CD in the drive.

I am using Win XP with SP1. The drive powers up upon the PC starting, but simply does not read/detect any cd placed in it, even those burned by the drive. I am sure this issue relates to the firmware upgrade, as the drive worked well just before the flash.
Reason for the flash was, when an SVCD CD is made with this drive, it was not possible to erase the CD anymore !!! the 2010 drive seems incapable of reading a SVCD disk after it makes it !!!

Grtfl for any help, or a copy of the older firmware version H.DF to return the drive to its original firmware.

Assuming you are using WinXP, go into your device manager, and DELETE the IDE channel that the drive is connected to, then reboot your computer and let Windows find the channel and drive again...

(in reply to sammy7)

Hi,

Yes, I am using XP, just tryed the unistalling the IDE Channel, and rebooted. But still same-o-same-o

Any thing else I can try?

(in reply to sammy7)

Try "reflashing" the drive (same firmware) in "Safe Mode" or make sure you change the drive to PIO mode "before" flashing and then back to DMA after you are done.

(in reply to sammy7)

Hi again,

tryed all the above, still no hope.

What I have noticed however, is only when a finalized CD is inserted into the drive, it is detected, any unfinalized CD's or blank Cd's are not detected !!!

any ideas??

(in reply to sammy7)