StevieJ's ReliefPainter-Oils by StevieJ

ah, that's good to know. so, what did you do to fix it?

reloaded drivers and did a new hardware install.....

The other problem may be that XP DVD drives don't read all UDF (Universal Disc Format) for CDs......and will show the drive to be empty.....

All in all, I would have to agree with you.....the easiest way is to take the computer to where you bought it and say "What the frick?!?!"

Hey Carl, you snuck that one in on me.....I thought you were asleep......where I'm heading right now

I inherited it - its a dell so no shop - have a good snooze

no worries

Yep I'll have to do that

Hi Carl,
I don't like disassembling or moving my computer and I certainly don't like someone else touching it. You might consider something like this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/LG-16x8x4-DVD-RW-...dZViewItem

It's cheap, external and reads/writes both CDs and DVDs.

Even if it turns out your existing drive is still functional something like this could still be used on your next system or even to move files from one to another.

Good luck

going on what steve said, you could uninstall the drivers, physically remove the drive, boot up windows again, do a registry cleaning, power down the system again, install the hardware and let windows find the hardware and install new drivers. that shld work if the hardware is ok. just one question in that regard. did you install any software besides drivers, for using the cd/dvd drive? i know Nero 7 (or some other version) comes packaged with a lot of burners these days. if that software had gotten corrupted, that could be it too. so, you'd want to uninstall that software also, along with the drivers. and when you booted up again to let windows find the drivers and install them, you'd then install the other software as well. that shld ensure a clean install of all things related.

the only other thing i could see having an effect on this would be windows media player. if that were corrupted and you're using that for ripping music, that could possibly be screwing things up. and since it was vista that you aborted, and that vista and windows media player are both M$ products, i suppose the vista abort could have reset something in windows media player.

so, do you have additional software for burning cd's/dvd's? and does this software seem to function ok, with the exception of the cd problem?

does windows media player work ok?

it would still be a lot easier if you had a spare drive to test with. and i'd also recommend not taking it to a shop. the basic shop fees these days are something like $80 and hour with a one hour mandatory fee. a new drive would probably cost less than that. so, if you take it to a shop and pay $80 just to have them tell you it's the drive, you could have already bought a new drive for that much.

I've been working on this filter some more.....

I want to live at that place.

Oh, I like how the filter looks on it too.

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ronviers wrote: It's cheap, external and reads/writes both CDs and DVDs.

Thanks Ron I'll have to do somthing

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Kraellin wrote: so, do you have additional software for burning cd's/dvd's? and does this software seem to function ok, with the exception of the cd problem?

No

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Kraellin wrote: does windows media player work ok?

yes

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Kraellin wrote: it would still be a lot easier if you had a spare drive to test with. and i'd also recommend not taking it to a shop. the basic shop fees these days are something like $80 and hour with a one hour mandatory fee. a new drive would probably cost less than that. so, if you take it to a shop and pay $80 just to have them tell you it's the drive, you could have already bought a new drive for that much.

Good advice

Look like it going to be awhile before I can do anything, the water pipe under the drive burst and Ive found out the builder of the house used irrigation pipe instead of water pipe which is reached the age where splitting will regularly happen - so the plumber has quoted me $3000 to put a new pipe from the meter to the house [ I'm on an acre ] so I'm going to have to get a loan and pay that off

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StevieJ wrote: You can also reload your operating system.....but we all know how much of a nightmare that can be......loosing things and having to reset everything.....

do you have to re-install all your programs

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StevieJ wrote: I've been working on this filter some more.....

It's looking great Steve

It looks more like oil to me. I think it's great though either way.

yeah, i can see oil when i open it up again. i guess i was concentrating on the blur effect.

I'm having too much fun with this series of filters......can't get enough of turning boring pictures into interesting paintings.....

Hey Steve, would you mind trying this one? I would like to see how your filter works on it. I would try it myself but I still don't have my copy yet.

I like it. There is just something about that photo that enables it to take a filter. I find for effects it works better than the lifesaver.
Thanks Steve

I have much higher resolution versions if you want try one. I'm not sure of the attachment restrictions at FF so I set this at 100k.

Yeah, compressed images could account for it too.....

Have a better one

original................

original

i like that texture on the oranges and the leaves in the first one.

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ronviers wrote: Steve - is this your first surface filter?

Ouch!!! LOL.....

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ronviers wrote: I think it is one of the best effects filters at FF.

Wow!!! Thanks!!!

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Kraellin wrote: i like that texture on the oranges and the leaves in the first one.

Yeah, I do too It kinda gave me an idea to do an old cracked oil painting filter using the tight fine reflections as the exposed white in the cracks.....

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ronviers wrote: I was not confused about it being great though

Thanx again!!! ......and yup, I soak up compliments like a dry sponge in Death Valley LOL.....

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Kraellin wrote: what does a dry sponge soak up in death valley?

.....anything it can get it's hands on.....like me begging and pleading for compliments LOL.....