Problems & Support for this product

• Making progress but not there yet...HELP
Question by rocket61, Sunday 2nd of November 2008 19:25
OK...had a problem with my Hewlett Packard OEM NEC ND-2100AD burner. It would not burn a DVD. Found out if I downloaded a 2.18 TDB windows flasher and made the burner a NEC ND2510A it would work. Well I did so and the burner now recognizes there is a DVD in the drive. However, instead of getting the error msg "no media" I now get "A write error occured. Bad request. Cannot format medium-incompatible medium. It is an Imation DVD-R disc at 16x. Is the problem with the media or the drive? I thought the flasher would work for both DVD-R or DVD+R. Please help!
Answer by imkidd57, Sunday 2nd of November 2008 21:07
Hey rocket61: your first post about this was in the Newbie forum, so let's continue there please:

http://club.cdfreaks.com/f34/problems-oem-nec-255580/

Cross-posting the same question to other parts of the forums can lead to frustration for members trying to give you a coherent response, so for that reason it's not allowed on CD Freaks

This thread closed.
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• problems with OEM NEC
Question by rocket61, Sunday 2nd of November 2008 13:40
Ok... using this site I realized the 2100 wouldnt burn to DVD-R discs. Therefore I flashed it to a ND2510A using 2.18 TDB Windows flasher. Now the error message is no longer "no medium" which is cool but now I get the error message "A write error occurred. Bad request, cannot format medium - incompatible medium" Any advise? The blank DVD is an Imation DVD-R 16x, is this a problem with the drive still or is it just the wrong format disc. Thanks.
Answer by eric93se, Sunday 2nd of November 2008 22:29
I once had the 2510, excellent burner, made some of the best +RDL discs I've seen. It been a while, but I'd have to guess that the discs that you are using are much much newer than what the 2510 is programed to support. You can check the "MID" code of your blank disc by using nero cd dvd speed 2000, under the info tab. After you find the mid code, you can then compare to what the supported codes that are available in the firmware for the 2510. Do this with "MCSE" media code speed edit, by the all mighty Ala42. There maybe the ability to change or add (or replace) a MID code that already exists to allow the drive the support your blank media. For example you might be able to take the MID identifer from your blank disc and put that in place for the "T02" mid code (which is the code for the well known taiyo yuden media).
Answer by rocket61, Sunday 2nd of November 2008 23:54
I took everyones advice and reflashed my HP OEM NEC ND-2100AD drive so that it is now a ND2510A drive. Some progress but not quite there yet. Instead of getting a "no media" message... I get "A write error occurred. Bad request cannot format medium. Incompatible medium." Is this a problem with the newly flashed 2510 drive or my Imation DVD-R 8x discs? How can I resolve this. Thanks!!!!!
Answer by Arachne, Monday 3rd of November 2008 01:27
** Thread from General Hardware merged with this one **

@rocket61 - as Imkidd57 mentioned in your (closed) thread in the Burners forum, crossposting is against forum rules. Let's keep everything in this thread please.
Answer by bigmike7, Monday 3rd of November 2008 05:28
Yo-

Did you crossflash from 2100 to 2500 - then cross flash from 2500 to 2510??

Or did you crossflash directly from 2100 to 2510-eh??
Answer by rocket61, Tuesday 4th of November 2008 00:45
I crossflashed directly to 2510...was this wrong? Whats the solution? I am new to all this burning DVD stuff. Spent most of my life programming and designing databases. Now its time for fun and with all the different formats and stuff it seems a whole lot more complicated. Anyway... any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Answer by bigmike7, Tuesday 4th of November 2008 05:32
rocket61 said:
I crossflashed directly to 2510...was this wrong? Whats the solution? I am new to all this burning DVD stuff. Spent most of my life programming and designing databases. Now its time for fun and with all the different formats and stuff it seems a whole lot more complicated. Anyway... any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!


Yo rocket61-

The correct proceedure was to go from 2100 to 2500 - then go from 2500 to 2510 - which worked (4 years ago) - not well most of the time-

Suggestion - bin the 2100 with bad flash and buy a current drive - like the LiteOn 20A4P or the Optiarc 7200A at less than $30 shipped - you will have a burner that will play/burn all current medias at a very reasonable cost-

Also - suggest using quality media such as Taiyo Yuden and/or Verbatim - (the Imation isn't very good stuffs)-eh!!
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• My NEC DVD RW ND-2100AD can't read blank DVD-R's
Question by flamedude3, Sunday 7th of September 2008 16:10
For some reason, my NEC DVD RW ND-2100AD won't read DVD-R's yet it reads CD-R's. I'm not sure what the problem is because it can read DVD movies perfectly. Plz help!
Answer by KTL, Wednesday 10th of September 2008 05:21
As I recalled, the ND-2100A does NOT support -R media. It is shown here as well. You will need to crossflash it to a ND-2500A/2510A to gain -R capability.
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• My drive doesn't recognise sony accucore DVD RW
Question by raffgaro, Friday 5th of September 2008 13:25
Recently purchased sony accucore DVD-RW disks and my drive doesn't regognize them. I have a dell with CD-DVD drive: NEC DVD+RW ND-2100AD 103D. What should I do. Sorry only new to this...
Answer by Liggy, Friday 5th of September 2008 15:13
You may try flashing one of the latest NEC ND-2500A or ND-2510A firmwares. All firmwares for these models are compatible. In addition you may also want to change your drive to a real 2500/2510 by using the NEC Drive Converter.
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• firmware update caused BSOD?
Question by matty1stop, Tuesday 26th of August 2008 17:22
I have a NEC 2100AD dvd+r drive that I updated with the Liggy and Dee firmware 2A5C so I could booktype DVD's. Since then I have been getting the BSOD and other errors regarding my usb drivers (usbccgp.sys). Is it possible there is some conflict and does anyone have any advice on how I can resolve this conflict? I am running XP on a Dell 4600.

Thanks for the help,

Matt
Answer by _chef_, Wednesday 3rd of September 2008 11:37
This drive is internal.......... or externally connected?
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