Re: 2nd DVD-rw drive stops reading discs (2 days old this time)

From: Neil Caulfield (ken475uk_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/25/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 11:16:45 -0800

Thanks for replying
Using AMD Athlon XP 2800 333MHz Barton
512 DDR333 ram
Master (only cd drive i have)
IDE1008
Power supply i'm not sure (if i open the case it voids
the waranty)
Using Memorex DVD+RW
But can't read Gta3, BF1942 commercial discs either
The machine is only a month old nad was bought complete
(not a self build)
Hope this helps
Neil
>-----Original Message-----
>what is the name brand of the media you are using?
>how big of a power supply do you have?
>Is the drive set to master or slave and on what pci bus
is it set on,
>primary or secondary?
>What is the speed of your processor and how much ram do
you have?
>
>
>"Neil Caulfield" <Ken475uk@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:167601c3fbcb$94d3d7b0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>> Last week my 3 week old NEC ND 1300a dvd-rw stopped
>> reading discs, regardless of type (copy / commercial),
>> tried all the usual install/uninstall drivers etc. Gave
>> up phoned the waranty people who said the drive was at
>> fault. Now have a 2 day old BTC 8x DVDRW and low and
>> behold the same thing has happened! Disc goes in light
>> flashes but the drive doesn't start to spin. Funny
thing
>> is it will play DVD Movies, but any other media simply
>> doesn't register.
>> When I double click on the drive it comes up blank with
>> the CD writing taskbar on the left even if an un-
>> writeable media is inserted.
>> I'm running Windows XP Home with SP1
>> And i'm loosing the plot
>> Please help
>> Thanks
>> Neil
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