SONY DVD RW DW-D22A isn't fully functioning anymore

Computer Forum Storage Devices
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I’m having troubles getting my SONY DVD RW DW-D22A drive to to stuff that until about 2 weeks ago, it had no problems with: burning and reading CD-RW’s and DVD-R’s.

The problems began, (I am guessing) when I installed a USB device (Pace Interlok, a copy protection Dongle), then uninstalled it. The DW-D22A then refused to burn or read CD-RW’s.

Thing’s I’ve tried:

  • System Restore (to before installing the iLok)
  • Uninstalling, then reinstalling the driver via the Device Manager
  • Resetting my MoBo’s BIOS to default settings

One interesting thing to note, is that under the Device Manager the drive shows up under the “Unknown” category, instead of under “DVD/CD-ROM Drives”. Weird.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
AbeAbe

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Right Click on the device and Uninstall it… Restart your computer.. Your PC will tell u that a new hardware is detected..then go through that wizard..See if this works :ohah:

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Does this device happen to use Starforce copy protection?

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I suggest u to flash the firmware of ur device..u can find the firmware of ur device at dhc014’s Firmware Collection
download the bin file and also download MTK flash to integrate the bin file and to flash ur device…
http://digi.rpc1.org/download.php?site=spcl3d1&file=MtkWinFlash-1536.zip

use the above link to query ur device and locate the bin file and start flashing it..it must work fine then.. cheers!!

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Thanks. Tried this but didn’t help.

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You mean the iLok dongle? It’s made by Pace, is used to copy-protect music software.

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Thanks. I just recently flashed the DW-22A DVD RW it and it worked for probably 2 weeks to a month before this problem showed up.

I guess I could re-flash it but I doubt that’s the problem.

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How many HDD’s and CD/DVD drives you have got?
If more than one on a same IDE Cable then make sure that jumpers are correct..
ATA Jumper Settings

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I don’t see how that would be a problem… They (2 DVD drives + 1 HD) were working fine to my knowledge before installing the iLok.

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When things goes wrong then every try is worth..i believe.
Check jumpers n see if one is on master and other one is on slave..