RE: DVDs are not playing or recognized
- From: Rob <Rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:53:02 -0700
Please help,
Can someone please tell me what the missing link is?
The DVDs that I have tried in my desktop machine (those that work and those
that don't) all work in my Dell laptop. So far it seems random that the discs
don't play.
The region code is set properly, the DVD drives work just fine (on some
DVDs). I have tried the Nero 6 software and WMP 10 with the Nvidia decoder
and still get the same results. Some DVDs play and some don't. The ones that
do not play read "no disc in drive" or the drive is empty, take your pick.
There has to be an explanation... can some one point me in the right
direction?
Thanks.
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"Rob" wrote:
Hi,.
I recently upgraded my system and I have 2 DVD drives that do not recognize
DVDs. One is an older (5 years) Compaq DVD - ROM DV 5700B and the other is a
Sony DVD RW DRU-700A (a little more than a year old). Both played DVDs before
the system upgrade. I had a Western Digital HD that was a few years old and
when I upgraded the other hardware in April I did a fresh install on that HD.
At that time I had Nero suite 6 from the CD that was included with my Sony
DVD drive and I installed that software and discovered the problem. I updated
version 6 and that did not work and just for the heck of it I downloaded
version 7 to see if there would be any change and there wasn't. I also had
the IDE SW drivers installed from Nvidia but for this latest install I left
them out to see if that might be the problem.
My newly upgraded system Abit KN8 SLI MB, 2048 Ultra PC 3200 DDR Ram, 2
GeForce 6600 Graphics cards, Ultra X-finity 600w PSU, and just recenlty (this
week) 2 Seagate SATA 160 GB HDs. I have a fresh install of XP Pro SP2 with
all updates, I have Nvidia drivers all updated, I installed the Nvidia video
decoder so I could use WMP and I did not install Nero because... it did not
work before.
I can play, burn, and rip CDs but nothing with DVDs, and I have tried
several different types of media. The lights will come on for a few seconds
and then the drive stops and reads like there is no disc. I upgraded the
firmware for the Sony DVD RW drive and I used Sony's read and write test from
the web. Apparantly it does not test for DVD read or write capabilites. Today
I reinstalled Windows again (I had some other issues) and the Sony Drive
actually spun and attempted to read a DVD for over 1 minute... that is the
most action for a DVD since April.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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