Posted by Marty on 12/07/05 22:26

Somewhere around Wed, 7 Dec 2005 01:52:23 +0100, while reading
rec.video.dvd.players, I think I thought I saw this post from "bw"
<me@home.se>:

>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. I have updated the old Plextor burner about five
>times without a hitch. Perhaps NEC could consult with Plextor before they
>write any firmware.
>
>My computer has Windows 2000 which has been working stable as a rock for
>over three years now. Luckily I could set everything as it was (I hope) in
>the BIOS.
>
I could be wrong, but I didn't think NEC directly allowed users to get
updates to BIOS. I have one (I also had the same Plextor before,
surprisingly enough), and when I looked, it seemed like only 3rd party
updates were available, and none yet for my unit.

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