Hi, thanks for the reply and not being more specific.

Cannot see contents.

I have Nero installed and unable to burn DVD, etc.

If I go to Device Manager, is shows as Matshita UJ-812 driver, but when I put a DVD new and movie type, cannot see anything.

Thanks

Scott

I can’t suggest much then. Have u upgraded the firmware?...check the sony site…u might have an upgrade available

Yes, I download a Firmware and when I tried to run it, it told me I have the latest version already.

Thanks

Scott

[quote author=“ellsab”]I have just installed XP and the DVD is not working?? It will read CD, but not DVD.

Any ideas, thanks.

Scott

hmmm, that’s what you said in your 1st post…it implies that before you reinstalled windows, the drive read dvd’s with your previous xp setup (correct me if I’m wrong). All I can suggest is doing a restore (factory setup) of XP and then check if that corrects things…if that too doesn’t work, call up Sony.

Thanks for your reply.

Japan Sony is colder than the coldest stone, as soon as you say you have installed English on the computer it is like talking to a brick wall.

I will do fresh install and hopefully that will work, I’ll let you know, thanks

Scott

ur welcome…could u let me know if it worked fine b4 u reinstalled windows?

Yes, I had a previous employee that worked from Microsoft do the initial install, everything worked perfect except the camera, but I found the driver online and got that working, this time, DVD and camera are the only problems

Scott

I dunno about the DVD but these 2 posts should help with the camera:

http://www.siliconpopculture.com/sonytr/viewtopic.php?t=807

http://www.siliconpopculture.com/sonytr/viewtopic.php?t=1653

Yes, 807 was a huge help,  it works very well, thanks very much.

Scott

Hey everyone.  I’m new here…came here looking for a faceplate for the UJ-812.  Anyway, I have a ThinkPad and hang out at http://www.thinkpads.com  You guys are running into the same issue as us who need this very slim drive.  We have searched long and hard and the conclusion is that the UJ-812 is the ONLY multi-burner in the world that is 9.5mm.  It is typically made for OEM notebooks and you can’t hardly find it on it’s own.  For something that burns DVD and CD (multi), it is the only option we have in such a slim bay (or in your case, the internals of the VIAO) in the world.  Hard to believe, but it’s true.  I might add that the DVD-RAM capability is nice but at only 2X burning speed for regular DVD blanks and without the “+” format burning capability, and without RegionFree flashing, you would think that someone like Liteon would come out with a ultra-slim burner by now.  We can only hope for some other drive that has more capabilities in the future.

Correction….as I was typing the above, I started seeing the UJ-822 on Japanese sites that apparently can burn + and - discs and is also 9.5mm, but I’m not sure if it’s available in the Western Hemisphere…anyone know?  In Japanese, but here is some info on this drive that just came out in Japan last Sept. http://panasonic.co.jp/pcc/news/2004/jn040908/jn040908.html

sony dapc

UJ-812 -  Part # 179689213 DVDRW (UJ-812,9.5MM)
UJ-822 -  Part # 179705711 DVD+-RW (UJ-822,9.5MM)
Bezel (TR) - Part # X-4625-895-2 ASSY (BEZEL) (OPT) M

Wish there was more information on this…like a picture or something….but for that price, I think I can wait.