Having a few issus with my CD-ROM drives. Ideas?
Sunday, March 27, 2005 by kona0197 | Discussion: PC Hardware
Anyone ever had a DVD-ROM refuse to recognize or play an DVD? My DVD-ROM is old and probably the lens is dirty but it will recognize any other data or CD audio disk but not an DVD movie disc - and this is on a fresh install of XP with every update except SP2 and I am using cyberlink PowerDVD 6... and the movie is brand new.
Also something is wrong with my CDRW drive as well - it seems it dosen't like to write to CDs correctly. Out of 20 I got 6 to write good. HMM. I'm using Nero 5.5 and writeing at 4x.
I'm using a rounded IDE cable. My motherboard is a Shuttle mobo using the Nvidia Nforce2 chipset. Ecvery driver is up to date. I am using the Nvidia IDE driver instead of the default MS IDE driver. Could that cause problems?
The cable is setup that the DVD-ROM is master, CDRW drive is slave.
Also something is wrong with my CDRW drive as well - it seems it dosen't like to write to CDs correctly. Out of 20 I got 6 to write good. HMM. I'm using Nero 5.5 and writeing at 4x.
I'm using a rounded IDE cable. My motherboard is a Shuttle mobo using the Nvidia Nforce2 chipset. Ecvery driver is up to date. I am using the Nvidia IDE driver instead of the default MS IDE driver. Could that cause problems?
The cable is setup that the DVD-ROM is master, CDRW drive is slave.
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MadDeez
Reply #22 Monday, March 28, 2005 3:39 PM
Reply #22 Monday, March 28, 2005 3:39 PM
kona, i bet if you install SP2, things will be fine. wink, wink 
sorry, i had to say it
sorry, i had to say it
PurrBall
Reply #23 Monday, March 28, 2005 3:56 PM
Reply #23 Monday, March 28, 2005 3:56 PM
I had a similar problem, except Windoze stopped detecting all drives except the HD. A few hours later, whenever I boot it just restarts. Was on phone with Gateway and my HD died after a test. Now up and running with new HD. 
Everything works fine. Try putting your drive in another computer and that should tell us the problem..
Everything works fine. Try putting your drive in another computer and that should tell us the problem..
kona0197
Reply #24 Monday, March 28, 2005 4:14 PM
Reply #24 Monday, March 28, 2005 4:14 PM
Snidely: It has nothing to do with SP2 as it was playing movies just FINE before SP1 and even after SP1. It's a old drive. Either it's just old or dirty. (Nice try)
Meowy: I have no other computer to put it in. My hard drive is fairly new and tests out just fine. XP detects all my drives as it should. After all it's not a matter of XP detecting my drive but rather why the DVD-ROM will read any disc I put in it and recognize every disc I put in it BUT a DVD Movie.
Meowy: I have no other computer to put it in. My hard drive is fairly new and tests out just fine. XP detects all my drives as it should. After all it's not a matter of XP detecting my drive but rather why the DVD-ROM will read any disc I put in it and recognize every disc I put in it BUT a DVD Movie.
mrtee
Reply #25 Monday, March 28, 2005 6:03 PM
Reply #25 Monday, March 28, 2005 6:03 PM
Look in event viewer, are you getting "bad block" errors on the drive?
There are 2 LASERs in the drive the LASER for DVD might be bad. Had the same problem with an HP combo writer, they replaced it. Then the replacement did the same thing, of course the warrenty was expired then.
There are 2 LASERs in the drive the LASER for DVD might be bad. Had the same problem with an HP combo writer, they replaced it. Then the replacement did the same thing, of course the warrenty was expired then.
kona0197
Reply #26 Monday, March 28, 2005 6:12 PM
Reply #26 Monday, March 28, 2005 6:12 PM
I looked in the event viewer and yes I'm getting alot of "bad block" errors.
ActionJay
Reply #27 Monday, March 28, 2005 6:59 PM
Reply #27 Monday, March 28, 2005 6:59 PM
hi guys, pouncing the thread here since I've been fighting with my DVD drive recently as well. It's a fairly old, cheap drive, and I won't rule out that it's simply worn out... but the whole thing is pretty much exactly as Kona's been describing. I also have rounded IDE cables, whether that makes a difference, and my CD-RW is on the same chain. They're set to cable select, and the CD-RW gets master while the DVD takes slave.
There is definitely no driver issue here. My drive won't read CDs or DVDs in Windows XP or Linux, and I can't boot from the drive using a bootable DVD.Sometiems the drive isn't even detected in Linux, either. In XP, when it does try reading a disc, it starts to drag down the system while it spins and spins. I've tried a cleaning disc but to no avail. This has happened to me a few times before, and resolves itself seemingly at random. Bad connections maybe? Dust in the circuits? As an IT guy myself, I hate having to attribute this sorta thing to gremlins
There is definitely no driver issue here. My drive won't read CDs or DVDs in Windows XP or Linux, and I can't boot from the drive using a bootable DVD.Sometiems the drive isn't even detected in Linux, either. In XP, when it does try reading a disc, it starts to drag down the system while it spins and spins. I've tried a cleaning disc but to no avail. This has happened to me a few times before, and resolves itself seemingly at random. Bad connections maybe? Dust in the circuits? As an IT guy myself, I hate having to attribute this sorta thing to gremlins
kona0197
Reply #28 Wednesday, March 30, 2005 1:37 AM
Reply #28 Wednesday, March 30, 2005 1:37 AM
After cleaning the DVD_ROM several times with a CD-ROM cleaning kit the drive still refuses to play DVD movies. So I'm going to get a new drive. I think the DVD laser went out because the drive still reads everything else.
After cleaning the CD-RW writes CD's just fine.
After cleaning the CD-RW writes CD's just fine.
PurrBall
Reply #29 Wednesday, March 30, 2005 3:29 PM
Reply #29 Wednesday, March 30, 2005 3:29 PM
You could bring it over to someone else's comp.
kona0197
Reply #30 Wednesday, March 30, 2005 4:43 PM
Reply #30 Wednesday, March 30, 2005 4:43 PM
I'm not going to tear apart my machine just to test a DVD-ROM in someone else's machine. I'll simply replace the drive.
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Reply #21 Monday, March 28, 2005 2:46 PM
Zero - If I find a solution I'll let you know.
The drive was made on 10/2000 so it's 5 years old. I think it's time to get a new one.