DVD Burner no longer reads DVDs.

[Dr. Tyler; Captain America]

After no distinguishable software changes (that I'm aware of), my DVD burner stopped reading DVDs. It reads CDs and CD+-R/RWs fine, but if you insert a DVD into the drive, it reads as a blank CD. I've tried:

 

- Uninstalling and Reinstalling the driver for the drive, both IDE channels, and the IDE controller

 

- Flashing the drive's firmware

 

- Switching the IDE socket from secondary to primary, and the hard drive worked fine on both channels.

 

- Sacrificing two chickens

 

 

Anyone have any clue as to how to fix this problem? I'd prefer not to have to resort to reformatting and reinstalling, especially when there is no guarantee that this will help whatsoever. The drive is a master and is not slaved to anything else (although, I might try slaving it to the hard drive just for the hell of it). Uh, it's a Rosewill RD-162 Black model. I can't think of any other pertinent information. I'm running WinXP Pro.

Edited December 17, 2005 by Dr. Tyler; Captain America

[Guest Vitamin X]

Since you have XP, do you have System Restore? That's worked for me a bunch of times when things mysteriously quit working. Have you changed/upgraded/updated anything in the time between when it was working last and now?

 

You might also want to try sacrificing three chickens, just to be safe.

[Dr. Tyler; Captain America]

I tried the system restore, it didn't work. That leads me to believe it's a problem with the hardware itself.

 

I don't think I made any changes, really. I was copying Doom 3 off of my friend and that was the last DVD I could read. I dunno. I think I'm going to pop it into my mom's crappy computer and see if it reads DVDs there, and if not, I guess it's time to buy a new burner.

[Guest Vitamin X]

Rosewill? I don't think I've heard of that brand.

 

Well, now you can angrily post a review of it on various computer websites.

[Dr. Tyler; Captain America]

It's definitely the hardware. Plugged it into another computer and it had the same problems. Hopefully, cleaning the lens will help but I doubt it. Looks like I'm gonna be out $40 during the Christmas season

[Guest Vitamin X]

Eh, that's not all that bad, really.

Edited December 18, 2005 by Vitamin X

[Mole]

That is all a DVD burner costs?

[Black Lushus]

it depends, Mole, if they're internal or external...I have an older laptop (almost everything on it is newer, though) and it was hella expensive to get an external burner...internal ones are quite cheap...

[The Czech Republic]

Is everybody's DVD drive crapping out or what? THey must be timed to all die right before Christmas. Mine just stopped working again/