Re: DVDs are not playing or recognized

I spent some time writing a response earlier only to have all the info
mysteriously deleted, but my signature posted.

Anyway...

I apologize for my lack of clarity... just frustrated from spending a lot of
time searching and trying different things with no resolution.

Originally thought I had a problem with all DVDs because I only tried 4 or 5
and they were all newer. After reading some troubleshooting on different
sites I thought I would try more of the DVDs from my collection. It appears
that the majority of the ones I am able to play are older, I use the term
majority loosely because I can only play a select few.

Symptoms: When I insert certain DVDs the drive spins and the little light
comes on for about 15 seconds or so, then the drive just stops. Nothing
appears on screen, no program attempts load, nothing. When I check the drive
properties (while the disk is in the drive) from "my computer" the general
information reads as if there is 0 bytes but the disk picture reads as full
(all blue). In WMP 10 when I attempt to play it reads as no disk in drive.
When I used Nero I would use the infotool and that would also display
information as no disk in drive. This happens on both drives. Certain other
DVDs work just fine in both drives. Some of the DVDs that do not work in the
drives don't have interactual loaded, and like I said, even if it is on the
disk I don’t even get the option to load it because nothing happens after the
drive stops. I have no way of telling which DVDs will work or not.

All the DVDs work in my home DVD player and on my Dell Laptop.

Attempted solutions: Fresh install of XP Pro SP2 with all critical updates
installed. Upgraded firmware for the Sony DVD RW drive. Tested the Sony drive
with their read and write test and the drive passed. Installed and
uninstalled Nero 6 from CD and installed Nero 6 upgrades from their website,
also tried Nero 7. Removed drives from device manager. Disconnected drives
from computer and installed individually. Installed software while only one
drive was connected. Completely removed Nero software and attempted to use
WMP 10 with only the Nvidia video decoder installed. Checked region code. All
with the same results, no change or solution to the problem.

Any help, information, or direction would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.


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"Wojo [MVP]" wrote:

Ok Rob lets try to start over here since there seems to be some
misinterpretation.
The discs do or don't play at random. Does this mean that the ones that
don't play will later (tomorrow or whatever) play or these ones NEVER play?
Is it that the menu doesn't come up or you can't get past the menu or you
just can't access the special features?
Do ALL these DVD's play on your home DVD player?
Have you tried letting the DVD's install the Interactual DVD player and used
THAT to view the DVD?
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"Rob" <Rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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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