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 Posted by Steven de Mena on 12/07/05 12:08 
"bw" <me@home.se> wrote in message  
news:dnqlf.667$xg.321@nntpserver.swip.net... 
> Hi! 
> Today I bought a new DVD-burner cos my old (Plextor 708A) went bad. The  
> new 
> burner is a NEC ND-3550A. 
> Since it had an older version of the firmware (1.04) I did an update to 
> 1.05. The firmware came from NEC's site and after the flashing the  
> DVD-drive 
> the flash program told me to turn off my computer. I did that. After a 
> restart I noticed that the BIOS was screwed up! All settings was at a 
> default state. It had even activated the built-in soundcard which I turned 
> off when I bought a Soundblaster Audigy a year ago. Grrr... 
> 
> It's amazing that NEC can't hire smart enough programmers that don't screw 
> up ones computer with flakey software. Obviously the flash program did 
> something it shouldn't. 
 
You have no way to know that. In fact it is pretty unlikely.  Did the NEC  
firmware get updated successfully? 
 
Steve
 
  
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