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Posted by -- TW on October 22, 2006, 8:15 am
Please log in for more thread options When I try to play it on my computer's dvd-drive, it doesn't even recognize that there's a disc in there. I tried another dvd (one I did not make), it has the same problem. Is there a chance the drive got disabled somehow? I hear it spinning. Also, I am using windows ME -- which I know to be shaky, in general. Please advise. Thanks! -- TW | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Jan Alter on October 22, 2006, 8:49 am
Please log in for more thread options anymore is to first go into the bios and enable your first boot device to be the CD-ROM drive. Next place your XP install disk into the drive and restart the system. If the system boots from the XP disk then the drive is OK. Undo everything I mentioned changing in the bios and restart Windows and restart the computer after this test. If the drive worked then now go into the control panel, then the system folder, then the hardware tab and finally devices tab. Delete the DVD-ROM drive and OK your way out. Restart the computer and see if the OS picks up the drive correctly. Besides opening the box and making sure the cable is tightly connected to both the mb and the drive there is one additional thing to try and that would be replacing the data cable on the drive to the mb. If all fails you might open the DVD drive case itself to see if the infra-red lense is dirty and try cleaning it. There are cleaning disks out there one can purchase and simply run on the drive, but with the cost of drives being rather cheap these days its hardly worth the money to spend when popping the top off the drive is easy enough and a piece of tissue in denatured alcohol will do the same thing. -- Jan Alter bearpuf@verizon.net or jalter@phila.k12.pa.us | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Jan Alter on October 22, 2006, 8:54 am
Please log in for more thread options One more thing I realized reading your post is that you mention only DVDs.
Does it read a CD-ROM? I guess you'd find that out anyway if you try the XP boot test. If it does I would go directly to cleaning the lense and see if it alleviates the problem. -- Jan Alter bearpuf@verizon.net or jalter@phila.k12.pa.us > The easiest way I can think of to find if your drive is not really working
> anymore is to first go into the bios and enable your first boot device to > be the CD-ROM drive. Next place your XP install disk into the drive and > restart the system. If the system boots from the XP disk then the drive is > OK. > Undo everything I mentioned changing in the bios and restart Windows > and restart the computer after this test. If the drive worked then now go > into the control panel, then the system folder, then the hardware tab and > finally devices tab. Delete the DVD-ROM drive and OK your way out. Restart > the computer and see if the OS picks up the drive correctly. > Besides opening the box and making sure the cable is tightly connected > to both the mb and the drive there is one additional thing to try and that > would be replacing the data cable on the drive to the mb. If all fails you > might open the DVD drive case itself to see if the infra-red lense is > dirty and try cleaning it. There are cleaning disks out there one can > purchase and simply run on the drive, but with the cost of drives being > rather cheap these days its hardly worth the money to spend when popping > the top off the drive is easy enough and a piece of tissue in denatured > alcohol will do the same thing. > > -- > Jan Alter > bearpuf@verizon.net > or > jalter@phila.k12.pa.us >>I have a dvd I made -- plays fine in my dvd player (hooked to my tv).
>> >> When I try to play it on my computer's dvd-drive, it doesn't even >> recognize that there's a disc in there. >> >> I tried another dvd (one I did not make), it has the same problem. >> >> Is there a chance the drive got disabled somehow? I hear it spinning. >> >> >> Also, I am using windows ME -- which I know to be shaky, in general. >> Please advise. >> >> Thanks! >> >> -- TW >> >
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Posted by Ken on October 22, 2006, 9:03 am
Please log in for more thread options Jan Alter wrote:
> One more thing I realized reading your post is that you mention only DVDs.
> Does it read a CD-ROM? > I guess you'd find that out anyway if you try the XP boot test. > If it does I would go directly to cleaning the lense and see if it > alleviates the problem. > Doesn't a DVD player on a computer need software other than Windows in order to recognize data on a DVD? As you said, the reading of a CD is one thing Windows can see, but it takes something like Windows Media Player or Real Player in order to see data on a DVD. At least I thought it did? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by kony on October 22, 2006, 12:53 pm
Please log in for more thread options wrote:
>Jan Alter wrote:
>> One more thing I realized reading your post is that you mention only DVDs.
>> Does it read a CD-ROM? >> I guess you'd find that out anyway if you try the XP boot test. >> If it does I would go directly to cleaning the lense and see if it >> alleviates the problem. >> >
> Doesn't a DVD player on a computer need software other than Windows in >order to recognize data on a DVD? No, but certain data formats like a video disc will need an app that understands them. >As you said, the reading of a CD is
>one thing Windows can see, but it takes something like Windows Media >Player or Real Player in order to see data on a DVD. At least I thought >it did? No, data in general is readable, same as on a CD, but you could make a video disc on a CDR and have same issue as a video DVD. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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> When I try to play it on my computer's dvd-drive, it doesn't even
> recognize that there's a disc in there.
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> I tried another dvd (one I did not make), it has the same problem.
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> Is there a chance the drive got disabled somehow? I hear it spinning.
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> Also, I am using windows ME -- which I know to be shaky, in general.
> Please advise.
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> Thanks!
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> -- TW
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