On Wednesday 30 November 2005 13:36, Stan Glasoe wrote:
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 7:01 pm, JB wrote:
With both. The new DVD-RW she got that night is a Sony. It does it all, even dual-layer (recording), but not RAM (I think that's what it's called). It looked like a pretty decent reader for $80.
Check out www.CDFreaks.com for firmware updates for CD/DVD drives. Even brand-new drives ship with outdated or down-revved firmwares. Plenty of manufacturer's own firmwares are listed.
Some drives also have third party firmwares that increase speeds, allow reading/writing newer formats, etc. Most of those third-party firmwares are first tested on the firmware writer's own drive so you know it has to be reasonably good.
Stan
Thanks Stan, I'll look into that. As for the problem, it seems to have been a chip(?) on the RAM that was incompatible (with what, I'm not sure - it was something the website for memtest mentioned that she had read), whatever it was it kept 9.3 from installing correctly, so I got another 512MB stick and the install went just fine. I told her not to use the other (bad) stick, because it might cause other problems in other ways once the installation was done and the system was up and running.