cd/dvd drives gone mad

[haggis@home]

hi all ...


i have just made my self a new pc with a asus crosshair mobo , amd 6400 X2 (black edition) 2 gig of crucial ram and a 800x pci gfx card and vista ultimate 64bit ..

the install went well after building , the cd/dvd drives were working well on xp and just before they stopped working i burnt about 10 cd with them , now they wont work at all ! , i try ed looking for fixes and have flashed the firmware and deleted the reg as it seems to work for some . but not me !

i removed one of the drives and changed the ide lead , this did not fix it . it seems to be able to see dvd films , but will not read cd or data dvd,s . and when i try burning a cd with nero 8 i put a blank disc in and try burning , it spits the disc out and tells me i need a empty cd although its says its a blank cd in the drive !!
the drive is visible in device manager and when i do put a disc in the drive spins up and trys to run the disc , some times locking up the pc at boot if its left in

please help , this is the first time i have used vista and so far i like it . but the xp pro disc is starting to look very promising ATM


H@H

btw love the forum

 

[johngalt]

Hi, haggis@home, and welcome to the forums.

See if http://www.vistax64.com/drivers/138541-asus-drw-2014l1t-dvd-not-working.html helps at all. It seems to be a known, and widespread, issue with SP1.

 

[haggis@home]

hi john and thanks for replying ..

i did check out that link but will it apply to my cd/dvd drive ? as mine are connected by ide not sata , also my drives are lite-on

thanks


H@H

 

[dmex]

hi john and thanks for replying ..

i did check out that link but will it apply to my cd/dvd drive ? as mine are connected by ide not sata , also my drives are lite-on

thanks


H@H

Hi Haggis,

How old are the drives and how often do you burn cd/dvs?

 

[haggis@home]

hi dmex

the drives are about 3 years old , i have been burning lots of cd/dvd of late . but for both drives to go down at the same time is surly impossible !

 

[haggis@home]

no other advice from the experts ?

 

[Fumz]

hi dmex

the drives are about 3 years old , i have been burning lots of cd/dvd of late . but for both drives to go down at the same time is surly impossible !

Surely not impossible. Cheap drives are ... well... cheap. At $20.00 a pop they don't last very long these days. I have an old Plextor that has outlasted, and still outperforms at least 3 Lite-On DVD drives.

I tried to breath new life into the Lite-Ons with firmware updates, but, the easiest way to sort this out is to go easy on the extras with the next week's sandwiches... you'll have saved enough to just get a new drive.

 

[haggis@home]

with my luck atm , you may be right . i have a bit of a update , i now only have the one drive plugged in atm . the firmware has been flashed , and now the drive will play dvd and cd,s fine ! but still just hangs its like it can not understand what blank media is ! .


i am going to order a new dvd/cd drive later tonight (just in case some one come to my aid at the last min) do you think a sata drive would be better ? or stick with ide ?


thanks for the replies all

 

[z3r010]

Get a SATA one if you have enough SATA ports.