Re: DVD Writer won't read DVD's

Went to Aheads website ang got the cleaner. Used it. Turned machine off
totally. even without Nero install still won't read a DVD. Even without Nero
installed. Put any DVD in and windows explorer changes from DVD-Ram drive to
CD drive. Reinstalled Nero. Stills sees any DVD as Blank Media.

"You Know Who ~" wrote:

Nero does a lousy uninstall. I would recommend using their cleaner (you can
download it from their site). Otherwise, numerous files and registry
entries stay in place after you "un-install" it and can cause problems on
reinstallation.

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"Brian" <Brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Running Nero 6.6 on both machines. Nero was also uninstallrd using the
control panel, and then reinstalled after rebooting . When I Removed the
drivers for the DVD drive I shut the machine off, disconnected the drive,
rebooted making sure the drive was no longer showing up in th eBios or XP.
Then turned off, reconnected drive, booted up. Xp saw new hardware and
installed driver.

"Noncompliant" wrote:

Uhh...
What DVD burning software are you running on the Intel system?
Did you remove it properly, then reinstall after a subsequent reboot?

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"Brian" <Brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I recently upgraded my motherboard to an Intel D925XBC. Hard drives and
DVD
writer are on IDE channel, HD as master and DVD as slave. Running XP
Pro
SP2
with all updates and patches installed from windows update. 512M DDR2
533MHZ,
3.06 P4 socket 775 processor, ATI X300 Video, sound and LAN onboard.
Now the problem. Upgraded motherboard, preformed repair on XP. LG
DVD
writer would not read DVD's. Reads and burns CD's perfectly. Explorer
showed
drive as DVD-Ram correctly, but would not read DVD's. Purchased Movies
or
durned disks. Preformed Clean install of XP Pro, no help problem
persisted.
Oh @#$@ I thought, the drive went bad. Replaced LG drive with Samsung
DVD
writer. Same symptoms. Uninstalled drive and rebooted, no help. Tried
registry fix suggested in some of the posts here, no help. Was this
drive
bad
too? RMA'd it and got a replacement, same symptoms. Took LG drive and
installed in son's Dell Optiplex desktop, works perfectly. Put Samsung
drive
in dell machine, works perfectly. Tried both drives back in Intel
machine
and
problem is still there. Intel says it's a software problem. Oh yea,
also
upgraded firmware on both LG and Samsung drives.
By looking around the forums here I see I am not the only one having
this kind of problem. Has anyone actually found a fix for this?
Can anyone offer anymore suggestions?
Thanks






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