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[פֿяαιп βαмαgεפ]

Originally Posted by greenday5494

newegg ftw.

Shipping to Europe that's not freakn' expensive?

[Innoc]

Originally Posted by Dospac

It isn't too bad with the 8.3 hotfix driver. Everything else has been fine. Didn't have any issues with the xfi. Application support has been weird. Itunes wiped out my dvd drive and Acrobat failed to work without a poorly documented licensing file fix thing.. Other than that it hasn't been too bad! hah..

That disappearing Optical Drive issue was alos an XP issue as well. It wasn't as widespread as it is in Vista though. I've also seen that issue with Roxio 10 as well. Simple fix but annoying nonetheless.

[greenday5494]

Originally Posted by פֿяαιп βαмαgεפ

Shipping to Europe that's not freakn' expensive?

dont live in Europe?

[Dospac]

Actually for me, removing the filters in the registry did not resolve the problem. Only disabling the drive in the bios and then re-enabling it worked(or unplugging, booting, replugging in etc)

Itunes complains at launch if I delete the filter in the registry.. I've found that if I don't run Itunes w/a disc in the drive, it won't made the drive disappear, which is fine cause I don't use Itunes for anything cept podcasts and my ipod.

The Gear driver is the culprit it seems. The feb update to the Vista64 driver didn't do jack apparently and actually initiated the problem for me, as it was 7.6.2 that caused it to occur for me the first time and this included the updated driver.