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Having a few issus with my CD-ROM drives. Ideas?

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Having a few issus with my CD-ROM drives. Ideas?

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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.
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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I looked in the event viewer and yes I'm getting alot of "bad block" errors.
Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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
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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.
Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top
You could bring it over to someone else's comp.
Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.