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DVD drive not reading any disks

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Name: TM
Date: June 28, 2005 at 20:24:48 Pacific
Subject: DVD drive not reading any disks
OS: windows XP pro sp2
CPU/Ram: 1.8 GHz/1.0 GHz

Comment:

Hi, I just reformatted my windows xp professional sp2 and now my dvd drive can't read anything. It's a LG HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4081B. I updated it to its latest firmware (A104)and it still doesn't work. It doesn't read cd rom or dvd's. It worked fine before the reformat. I also have a HP CD-Writer+9700k cd-rw drive. They are both working fine according to the device manager. Both, the cd-rw drive and the dvdram have the same driver (5.1.2535.0) which was installed by windows automatically. I tried to uninstall the dvd writer and let windows reinstall it after restarting but that didn't work. When I put the dvd in, basically nothing happens, the green light flashes for about 5 seconds and it just goes idle from there. I try to run it manually by actually double clicking the dvd drive but it just says "please insert a disk into drive E:". But I already have a disk inserted. What could be the problem?

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Response Number 1

Name: TM
Date: June 28, 2005 at 20:31:53 Pacific
Subject: DVD drive not reading any disks

Reply: (edit)

Just found something else, when I left click the dvd drive and open properties, it says "CD drive" under type.

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Response Number 2

Name: NAN
Date: June 28, 2005 at 23:50:39 Pacific
Subject: DVD drive not reading any disks

Reply: (edit)

1. check the cables.
2. unplug other drives and let just it plugged.
3. Uninstall any burning software installed.

If still not working i guess is dead.

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Response Number 3

Name: jam
Date: June 29, 2005 at 05:22:16 Pacific
Subject: DVD drive not reading any disks

Reply: (edit)

Don't put 2 optical drives on the same cable
Asus A7N8X-X
1800+ @ 8.5 x 200MHz
768MB PC3200 2.5-3-3-7
Asus A9550GE/TD 128MB
WinME/WinXP Pro

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