Hardware Windows 7 and SH-S203B (DVD writer)

[jedidia]

Since moving to Win7, I'm having a lot of trouble with my TSST dvd burner. Namely, it hangs up the system when it's encountering a problem. That problem can be as small as a slight hinderance on reading the disc. For example, it hangs the complete system when encountering an ever so slight scratch. DVDs that the ultra-cheap dvd player in the living room plays without problems crash my whole system (not even the task manager respnds anymore).

Generally, I have to copy anything from a CD, I can't play it in the directly, and even while copying there's a good chance the thing will hang up on me. I didn't have any trouble at all with the same device under Win2K.

Now, after the last windows update, the problem just got worse: the DVD-writer is even more liable to hang up, and I'm even getting bluescreens at windows startup (flash up for a second, mumble something about the problem being most probably an incompatible device, then the computer reboots). At least a few times, Windows computer usually succeeds to get itself started every 3 or 4 attempts...

Anyone got any advice on what to do?

 

[TSPenguin]

If it is an IDE device, check if it is running in a proper DMA mode. I've seen some machines that crash without it. Reverse logic applies too. Seen some machines that don't like it at all, so toggling this would be my first response.

More info on the bluescreen would be really helpful to pin this problem down.

 

[jedidia]

Problem about the bluescreen is it only shows up for the better part of a second, and of course I can't make a screenshot... From what I could gather it's very unspecified, merely stating that I should uninstall recently installed devices and drivers. Since I don't know what the windows update installed exactly, that's a bit tricky, and I don't have a system restore point either...

the DVD-writer in question is a SATA-device, sorry, should have specified that.

If I start windows in troubleshoot mode after the bluescreen, it can't locate any problems either.

 

[orb]

Problem about the bluescreen is it only shows up for the better part of a second, and of course I can't make a screenshot...

You can make it isn't resetting the computer to read information from it, if there is nothing in the log.

 

[Hielor]

My guess would be that Samsung didn't bother writing drivers for newer OS versions.

 

[jedidia]

I know that for a fact, actually (indeed they aren't even planning to), and I put the trouble I had so far down to that, but a bluescreen on startup after the last windows update? certainly DVD drives are standardized enough to run on some default drivers more or less stable? I somewhat resent the notion of having to buy a new DVD writer because I upgraded my system...

 

[Hielor]

I know that for a fact, actually (indeed they aren't even planning to), and I put the trouble I had so far down to that, but a bluescreen on startup after the last windows update? certainly DVD drives are standardized enough to run on some default drivers more or less stable? I somewhat resent the notion of having to buy a new DVD writer because I upgraded my system...

Bad drivers are certainly capable of bluescreening the system.

You can always try uninstalling the driver via the device manager, then rebooting and checking Windows Update to see if it will offer you one.

There's not really much that Windows can do about this--if the OEM hasn't made drivers that work for Win7, then the OS can't really do anything about it.

 

[jedidia]

Interesting, the windows update from yesterday seems to have fixed at least the bluescreen, so I can startup without trouble again. will have to run a few tests to see if it fixes anything in the overall usability of the drive. I really thought these things were more standardised nowadays...