Vista only recognises my dvd burner as a normal dvd drive...

kaisersose77 · 01-02-2007 07:21PM #1

I have a pci sata/ide raid controller with the via vt6421l chipset which i use to connect my pioneer ide dvd burner to my dell pc( which is sata only) . Anyways i have installed vista home premium and installed the latest drivers for this card (5.40c). The dvd drive IS recognised in my computer in vista ( it can read dvd's fine) but vista media center and movie maker dont recognise it as a dvd burner. I havent tried any dvd burning s/w yet. Just wondering does anyone know what could be the problem. It works fine in xp.

edit: its a ide pioneer 111-d

kippy · 01-02-2007 07:27PM

Looks like driver support.
But I am no expert.
Have the manufacturer of the drive released any updates for Vista?
Although it surprises me that any would be needed.

kaisersose77 · 01-02-2007 07:33PM

tried the latest drivers for the pci card but made no difference, im just after remembering, i tried the vista beta last month, and the drive WAS recognised properly the first time i installed vista then, but a few days later it stopped being recognised fully even though nothing had changed and i was in the same situation as i am in now. I was meant to post here about it but uninstalled vista soon after and never got around to it.

8T8 · 02-02-2007 05:48PM

Well I see you tried over at the CD Freaks forums but no luck so far.

My only other suggestion would be try the Buffalo 8.29 firmware which is the latest I think for the 111D.

My BenQ 1650 is working fine, could be a controller issue as certain IDE controllers not always supported ATAPI optical drives and perhaps VIA''s driver does not in Vista. I would suggest asking over at the Via Arena forums to see if they can confirm it supports optical drives under Vista.

Only other alternatives are as you mentioned a SATA adapter or another IDE controller, a SATA adapter should do the trick.

kaisersose77 · 03-02-2007 07:40PM

seems like its only vista's own programs that are the problem ( mce, movie maker etc). Nero and others work fine luckliy, and thanks to nero, theres a burn cd/dvd plugin in the mce program library so it does everything i need ( and very handy for ppl in my house who wouldnt have a clue how to burn a cd etc as its very easy).

thanks for those tv tuner registry pictures 8t8, i installed a univsersal dvb program and vista mce now thinks my skystar hd dvbs is a proper tuner and it tunes in a lof of the fta channels on 28 east. (the universal dvb program must map the dvbs transponders to dvb-t but i cant find any file which contains these dvbs transponders - itv2,3 and bbc2,3,4 and film four dont appear so i want to add those transponders, but cant find anything about it atm).

kaisersose77 · 04-02-2007 03:07PM

that nero mce plugin seems too good to be true! from within vista mce itself, i converted and burned a 2hr xvid film to dvd within 1hr. This is on a 400 euro dell outlet e6300 core 2 duo, convertx2dvd or whatever its called is probably just as fast but the fact that it can be done so easily from within the media center itself is great. I thought video must be missing or something as that seemed too quick but from what i have checked it seems to be all there and quality is great on a normal tv. Just a matter of right clicking the xvid you want to convert, select burn, select video dvd, give a title to the tv if u want to change it and away it goes, come back in an hour and your video dvd will be ejected.

8T8 · 04-02-2007 07:06PM

Nero does the conversion with it's own plugin not bad, I was never too keen on Nero's picture quality though I suppose it depends on the source.

Vista only recognises my dvd burner as a normal dvd drive...

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