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[Great King Bowser]

So I flashed my NEC 6100a drive which came with my Dell Inspiron 8600 to 6500a so that I could burn DVD-Rs using the dangerous brothers firmware.

I've been using Datawrite 8x DVDs to copy some DVDs, they'll play on my DVD player and on my friends Compaq laptop, but it won't play on my NEC drive which it originated from! Is this normal? Are the discs to blame?

Sorry guys, I'm really new to the firmware flashing scene and this is my first post.

All the information I've got on the discs are that they're these:
http://www.ukdvdr.co.uk/shop/customer/product.php?productid=17080&cat=260&page=1

Any help is greatly appreciated.

EDIT - Just realised, I mean when it won't "read", it won't play them. I can view the folders in Windows Explorer but the DVDs won't play in PowerDVD, Windows media player, intervideo winDVD, nothing

 

[Diablos]

My NEC ND-2500A is a piece of crap. If a DVD (cleaned DVD) has only a few scratches on it, then software will report CRC errors. Meanwhile my Lite-On will read the disc like any other - flawlessly.

 

[alejob]

Dells DVD drives are +R only right? So you flashed it to make it +-R?

Just wondering if thats what you did.

 

[Ecrofirt]

yea, he flashed the firmware. Same thing I did with my 2100a that came with my XPS.

Of course, my drive works very well.

 

[Great King Bowser]

Oh, forgot I posted this.

Erm, damn you NEC. Well at least I can burn - DVDs.

But not being able to read is "normal" then? I could have swore it was playing the DVDs a few days ago (smallville box set), albeit taking a while to read.

But I just tried the same datawrites again when copying a DVD and it works. So erm, damnit.

 

[Diablos]

The 25xx series is "known to have poor reading quality" according to a few forums I've lurked. I'm sure the same could very well be for your drive. Using hacked firmware is risky, too. Worked for me, but I had to actually have some guy do a custom hack on my EEPROM and firmware to get it working properly. Of course before that the light would do nothing when you put a disc in (didn't recognize it as a recordable drive).