Wanted: Matsushita (matshita, panasonic) UJ-840D driver
Ok, a friends computer, a Sony Vaio laptop (pcg-7a2l) has a maushita dvd burner. The drivers seem to be corrupt, and i cannot find the drivers anywhere. The laptop is brand new, purchased recently and i would love to help her out, but i havent found a single shread about this burner at all.
If anyone can help with a driver, or point me in the right direction, i would really appreciate it!
Alex
just burned a cd-r w/ uj-840d
i burned a cd-r a min ago at 8x, a little far from matsushita's advertised 24x....
i will be testing this drive burning a dvd as soon as i can,
i have IMAPI services disabled and i used nero 6.0.6.16 to burn
o ya, good luck ever finding a firmware update for this crapper
found matshita oem drivers.... 840d
only problem is that they are hosted at techzilla.info under the dvd/cdrw forum
...not even playin around
I Got the fix for problem with the matshita UJ-840D
*****back your data up before doing this as a precautionary measure!!!****
here is a start
http://www.techzilla.info/viewtopic.php?t=7
techzilla would not let me post at the lik about i have no idea why but here goes.
first i tried this from sharky forum:
(http://www.sharkyforums.com/showthread.php?t=275046)
Nemesys
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Matshita!!
The name says it all, these drives are total garbage. They have absolutely no support. I would go to the notebook manufacturer's web site and check if there are any firmware updates (doubtful).
An exclamation mark in Device Manager suggests a corrupted Registry entry which normally cites an error Code 31, Code 32, Code 19, Code 39, or Code 41.
Solution.......................
Start your Registry Editor.
Locate the UpperFilters value under the following key in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4 D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
If present, delete the UpperFilters
Locate the LowerFilters value under the same key in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4 D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
If present, delete the LowerFilters
Quit Registry Editor.
Restart the computer.
NOTE: After you remove the Upperfilters value and the Lowerfilters value, if you notice lost functionality in a particular program, such as CD recording software, you may need to reinstall that software.
Otherwise, optical drives do not require drivers other that the cdrom.sys and atapi.sys drivers that are automatically loaded by Windows.
and after nothign happened. I figured i needed to restart, but before i did I downloaded the drivers for the drive listed here http://www.techzilla.info/viewtopic.php?t=7 and installed them I did not try the last post listed on this link.(just realized that now, so may be wrth a try before going my route)
after installing the drivers everything seemed ok until i restarted my computer then my comp got stuck at the windows login screen. and my keys and mouse on my laptop stopped working for some reason(even when i plugged in the usb keyboard and mouse from another computer they didnt work). so i rebooted and this time took windows into safe mode(i believe its hold F5 or F8 as the computer is restarted[friend helped over phone]) once i got to the options(regular windows start, safe mode start, safe mode with networking start, etc) i chose reboot windows with last known good configuration. after i did this all my headaches with this matshita uj-840 drive were gone.Its as if windows realized what was wrong and then fixed i...possibly with the help of the driver I installed.
I can now play dvds with out them jerking/skipping ever 3 seconds, movies are way smother. games are better as well no issues at all ..period.
i hope this halps many people out there on the net.
much thanks to techzilla for getting the ball rolling.
kene
oh my laptop is a
compaq presario v2000(bluish black on the outside and gre on the inside, widescreen as well)
AMD turion 64 ML-37
512 ddr ram(pc2700)
ATI radeon express x200
hopefully this helps.