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DVD Drive And XP HELP!
Name: Michael Rowntree Date: October 22, 2003 at 06:02:02 Pacific OS: ME was XP CPU/Ram: 633Mhz 320Mb SDRAM
Comment:
I have a 16xDVD Drive and when i installed XP it worked fine but after then downloading all the updates fromt he microsoft site, my DVD drive stopped reading discs, prior tot his it worked perfectly fine. My DVD drive shows up in my computer and is recognised by Device Manager, there are no driver faults either! I recently formatted my machine and installed ME which is what i ahd on before XP. My DVD Drive still does not read discs. I blame XP and I shall be boycotting any of microsofts OS's XP and any future releases form them cuz they get worse each time, 98 was definitive and still is cuz it isnt as buggy as XP
Name: TJ Date: October 22, 2003 at 06:11:49 Pacific
Reply:
You're going to blame an OS for messing up hardware?? Hmmm, that's funny. I've NEVER had any problems with XP or my DVD drive. I'm not a big MS fan but before you go start blaming software for ruining your hardware, try replacing your monitor with a mirror!
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Response Number 2
Name: Anakin Date: October 22, 2003 at 06:41:01 Pacific
Reply:
This is a hardware problem and not software. Try many discs (Music, Data, DVD) and if it can't read any of them than replace your DVD ROM.
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Response Number 3
Name: Davy H Date: October 22, 2003 at 06:58:08 Pacific
Reply:
Hey, do you think he's checked the simple stuff like DMA setting in device manager?
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