LiteOn LTD-166S crashes computer

[boneyard]

hello,

i have seen several topics about this type but all are about turning on dma or comparing different types i believe. if im mistaken about that sorry for the double post.

the dvd player crashes my windows 98 box when i put a cd in it. it read the cd and then goes to a blue screen. is this a known problem and does anyone know what i can do to fix this?

thanks,
bart

[Dartman]

sounds like a driver or program type conflict. I've had that happen before when 2 different programs don't play well together. You might want to look at anything you've just installed lately.

[irikumi]

Why are you using Windows 98? If you can run all your programs fine in 2000 or XP I would ditch 98.

[vbl117]

I had problems like this last year because of burning software .
What burning software do you use ?

[boneyard]

the computer only has dvd-rom so no burning software, also it almost a clean install of win98 and office 97. no extra drivers or anything else special.

lite-on has no special drivers for this drive i believe. it just says use the default windows drivers. the firmware update might help but i rather first try other options.

it seems to crash when a cd has autorun. cds without autorun it plays fine. of course i could turn off autorun but that seems a big harsh a fix.

[cfitz]

Is it just one particular CD that crashes the computer when inserted with autorun, or is it all of them? Does the same CD crash the computer when inserted into your CD-ROM drive (if you have one) with autorun enabled?

cfitz

[vbl117]

Perhaps it's an aspi layer problem .
you should use "nero info tool" to know if your aspi layer is not corrupted or if an aspi is missing .
After a bad reset , mine has been corrupted and my drive had problems recognising medias ( but it was not crashing the pc ) , so i had to reinstall it .
You can download nero info tool here : http://www.cdspeed2000.com/go.php3?link=download.html

if you need an aspi download the latest package here :
http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/suppor ... _471a2.exe

[boneyard]

thanks for all the ideas. updating some totally unrelated dlls fixed the problem in 98. but after finding out it wasnt even 98 se i installed winxp and now the dvd-rom drive is doing fine.