HELP btc 1008im dvdrw wont burn at all

[stone81]

Can anyone help me please i've had my burner for a year now and it was working sweet up on till yesterday. went to burn a cd and got an error sign saying drive is in use. so i went and checked it out. the drive now thinks it's a standard cd/dvd rom drive not a dvdrw drive. i have installed old firmware and new. reboot the computer reinstalled windows xp home. and still nothing. i have even made a flash faliure and repaired it just to see if it would help.

im at my witts end here last thing i want to do is go and by a new dvd burner .. :sad:

[RmF]

did you try to uninstall the writer in the device manager then reboot?
It might get re-detected as dvd writer.
might try try to uninstall the ide channel the writer
is connected to if that doesnt work.

[stone81]

i've tryed that and still nothing. so i did a wee test i removed the dvdrw and put in my old cdrw drive and its the same as the dvdrw. keeps saying its a cd rom drive. i dont know what to do it looks like its the computer but i reinstalled windows xp ???????

[RmF]

did you remove the writer then uninstall the ide channel the writer was connected to?

i figured that would work. kind of like resets the ide channel.

then install the writer..

[stone81]

still nothing keeps coming up as cd-rom drive this is killing me now ready to stick the boot into this computer lol

[RmF]

well you could install either drive(the dvd writer or the cd writer) on another computer then youd know for sure if it was your computer.

[stone81]

think thats the next thing to do then.
thanks for the help i'll keep at it

[stone81]

ok it was my ide port. its dead have to get a new motherboard now. thanks for the help rmf

[phil1]

an ide controller card will cost less then a new motherboard look at "ide controllers the definitive thread" in general hardware forum

[RmF]

hmm... did you check ide in the BIOS?
was the device detected in the BIOS?
i would think that if the ide port was dead the device would not be detected at all.