Problems with DVD-rom

[Kalgarn]

for some reason my DVD-rom stopped reading DVD's it can play normal cd-roms and audio cd's but when i put a DVD disk in it it doesn't recognizes it.
I just get "please insert a disk in drive E".i tried pretty much everyting i could think of but nothing seems to work.
anyone got any ideas?thanks

 

[Herjulf]

Is it a burnt dvd u are trying to read?
If so some dvd-readers may have problems readins some dvd-media.

If its i silverback i dunno.

 

[Kalgarn]

tried different kinds and it detecs none

 

[Krait]

It may not be the reason but have you played a program lately that uses Starforce protection ?
Some people on the X3 forums and other games forums have complained about it affecting cd/dvd drives ability to read anything..............it does seem a rare case though.

 

[Kalgarn]

It may not be the reason but have you played a program lately that uses Starforce protection ?
Some people on the X3 forums and other games forums have complained about it affecting cd/dvd drives ability to read anything..............it does seem a rare case though.

not that i know.ran a starforce removal utility just to be on the safe side but nothing changed.thanks for the suggestion anyway

 

[Cylian]

heh, my Plextor 716-A doesn't read CDs anymore, but burns and reads DVDs just fine

2nd one to break :/

 

[Kalgarn]

wanna trade?
btw,how is wow these days?i'd ask to say hello to the people i knew there but i don't even know their names anymore...

 

[scorge]

for some reason my DVD-rom stopped reading DVD's it can play normal cd-roms and audio cd's but when i put a DVD disk in it it doesn't recognizes it.
I just get "please insert a disk in drive E".i tried pretty much everyting i could think of but nothing seems to work.
anyone got any ideas?thanks

Dvd's come in two formats + and - all i can think of is that your DvD cannot read one ofthese formats, also if it is a "grey" chinease dodgy import it may say DvD but not be a DvD....

can yo play no dvD's(music/data etc)?

 

[Kalgarn]

nah,has nothing to do with that.it doesn't even read DVD's anymore that it used to read.

 

[Cylian]

can't say there changed alot in WoW, even saw Gresin playing again!
got me my epic mount (finally!) and now grinding the Arathi Basin for the PvP Armor ... looks just Orctastic!

 

[confused]

o0o i had the same problem, but only after i changed my gfx card+added ram. I found out that the psu wasn't able to take the load and so made it not work properly..

 

[Bahumat]

i had it so i bought another dvd-cdrom combo thingy and its fine

 

[Kalgarn]

so it's either a new psu or a new DVD-rom?bleh,was hoping on fixing it without buying stuff
i'll see what i can do

@ cylian:aye,gresin told me he was going to start playing again.make sure he gets to 60 now

 

[confused]

if you can try with a friends more powerfull PSU.. if you have one, of either

 

[Kalgarn]

hehe,got lots of friends but if not sure if they have a more powerfull one and if they feel much for letting me inside their computer

 

[Kalgarn]

nevermind,just bought a dvd writer and works now

 

[MaCaBr3]

nevermind,just bought a dvd writer and works now

You could have tried to remove the DVD drive from Device Manager and scan for new hardware afterwards.

 

[Kalgarn]

nah,did that allready.tried everything i could think off before i went to the shop.wasen't that expensive anyway

 

[Laroma]

tried everything i could think off ..

That can't have been much.

 

[Kalgarn]

That can't have been much.

hehe,who asked you?
and btw,i wasen't ignoring you this afternoon but was sleeping and msn came online for some reason.was some girl who told you i wasen't there

and no idea when i get back,can't get a cc so might take a while but i'll pop-up again eventually