Optical Drive Woes

mattj

mattj

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I am experiencing some interesting problems with an optical drive on a Lenovo T61p laptop running Vista Business x86 SP1. The problem is that the DVD drive will not auto play and while it recognizes that a disc is in the drive and the files on the disc, it does not recognize any executables even though they are there.

I am shying away from it being a hardware issue due to the fact that I have swapped the drive out with a known working drive and it does the same thing. And the oddest thing about it is that when a disc is in the drive a little apple pops up in the lower left hand corner of the DVD icon in My Computer:

dvdApple.jpg


Any ideas of what it could be?
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+
    Motherboard
    ASUS M2N SLI Deluxe
    Memory
    4GB G.Skill DDR2 800
    Graphics Card(s)
    nVidia 8800 GTS 320bit
    Hard Drives
    WD Caviar 500GB 7200
    Seagate Barracuda 750GB 7200
I don't think the issue lies within the autoplay settings, it is more that autoplay will not work because the drive does not recognize any file that is executable.
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+
    Motherboard
    ASUS M2N SLI Deluxe
    Memory
    4GB G.Skill DDR2 800
    Graphics Card(s)
    nVidia 8800 GTS 320bit
    Hard Drives
    WD Caviar 500GB 7200
    Seagate Barracuda 750GB 7200
Hi Mattj,

Try this. Put you CD/DVD into your drive. If windows does not see it then reboot the PC with the cd/dvd still in the drive. When you boot back up I am guessing you will be able to access the data on the cd/dvd drives then?

Raj
 

My Computer

System One

I have done that a few times. I can still see the data no problem, but windows and/or the optical drive has a difficult time seeing .exe's as executables. For example 'setup.exe' is seen as just as a generic file type.
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+
    Motherboard
    ASUS M2N SLI Deluxe
    Memory
    4GB G.Skill DDR2 800
    Graphics Card(s)
    nVidia 8800 GTS 320bit
    Hard Drives
    WD Caviar 500GB 7200
    Seagate Barracuda 750GB 7200
Ummm, no.

What software do you have installed? The reason I ask is that I wonder is iTunes is causing you issues....
 

My Computers

System One System Two

  • Operating System
    Windows 10 Pro X64 Insider Preview (Skip Ahead) latest build
    Manufacturer/Model
    The Beast Model V (homebrew)
    CPU
    Intel Core i7 965 EE @ 3.6 GHz
    Motherboard
    eVGA X58 Classified 3 (141-GT-E770-A1)
    Memory
    3 * Mushkin 998981 Redline Enhanced triple channel DDR3 4 GB CL7 DDR3 1600 MHz (PC3-12800)
    Graphics Card(s)
    eVGA GeForce GTX 970 SSC ACX 2.0 (04G-P4-3979-KB)
    Sound Card
    Realtek HD Audio (onboard)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    2 * Lenovo LT2323pwA Widescreeen
    Screen Resolution
    2 * 1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    SanDisk Ultra SDSSDHII-960G-G25 960 GB SATA III SSD (System)
    Crucial MX100 CT256MX100SSD1 256GB SATA III SSD (User Tree)
    2 * Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST31000528AS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA II Mech. HD
    Seagate ST1500DL001-9VT15L Barracuda 7200.12 1.5 TB S
    PSU
    Thermaltake Black Widow TX TR2 850W 80+ Bronze Semi-Mod ATX
    Case
    ThermalTake Level 10 GT (Black)
    Cooling
    Corsair H100 (CPU, dual 140 mm fans on radiator) + Air (2 *
    Keyboard
    Logitech G15 (gen 2)
    Mouse
    Logitech MX Master (shared)
    Internet Speed
    AT&T Lightspeed Gigabit duplex
  • Operating System
    Sabayon Linux (current, weekly updates, 5.1.x kernel)
    Manufacturer/Model
    Lenovo ThinkPad E545
    CPU
    AMD A6-5350M APU
    Motherboard
    Lenovo
    Memory
    8 GB
    Graphics card(s)
    Radeon HD (Embedded)
    Sound Card
    Conextant 20671 SmartAudio HD
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Lenovo 15" Matte
    Screen Resolution
    1680 * 1050
    Hard Drives
    INTEL Cherryvill 520 Series SSDSC2CW180A 180 GB SSD
    PSU
    Lenovo
    Case
    Lenovo
    Cooling
    Lenovo
    Mouse
    Logitech MX Master (shared) | Synaptics TouchPad
    Keyboard
    Lenovo
    Internet Speed
    AT&T LightSpeed Gigabit Duplex
johngalt said:
Ummm, no.

What software do you have installed? The reason I ask is that I wonder is iTunes is causing you issues....
Click to expand...

Thats what I am wondering as well. Its not my machine, I am on the IT team that manages a few hundred laptops. The user installed iTunes but uninstalled it because of that problem. Yet he still has the problem. I definitely do not discount that it could be it, I was moreso wondering if anyone had ever seen something like that before. The only other program that made me wonder is one called XPlay 3, which is a iPod ripping software.

Thanks everyone for their help by the way. I really appreciate it.
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+
    Motherboard
    ASUS M2N SLI Deluxe
    Memory
    4GB G.Skill DDR2 800
    Graphics Card(s)
    nVidia 8800 GTS 320bit
    Hard Drives
    WD Caviar 500GB 7200
    Seagate Barracuda 750GB 7200
Have you tried the CD in another machine? Maybe it is corrupt.

Diablo is a fun game. Diablo 3 will be out sometime in the future....
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    Core Duo 2 E6700
    Motherboard
    ASUS P5W DH Deluxe
    Memory
    4g-Corsair XMS2 6400
    Graphics Card(s)
    ATI 4870x2
    Hard Drives
    2 Maxtor Essential SATA2 drives Raid 0
    Pioneer 212D SATA DVD-R/W
If the user installed iTunes then uninstalled it, use a System Restore to a date previous to the installation of iTunes and see if that helps.
 

My Computers

System One System Two

  • Operating System
    Windows 10 Pro X64 Insider Preview (Skip Ahead) latest build
    Manufacturer/Model
    The Beast Model V (homebrew)
    CPU
    Intel Core i7 965 EE @ 3.6 GHz
    Motherboard
    eVGA X58 Classified 3 (141-GT-E770-A1)
    Memory
    3 * Mushkin 998981 Redline Enhanced triple channel DDR3 4 GB CL7 DDR3 1600 MHz (PC3-12800)
    Graphics Card(s)
    eVGA GeForce GTX 970 SSC ACX 2.0 (04G-P4-3979-KB)
    Sound Card
    Realtek HD Audio (onboard)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    2 * Lenovo LT2323pwA Widescreeen
    Screen Resolution
    2 * 1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    SanDisk Ultra SDSSDHII-960G-G25 960 GB SATA III SSD (System)
    Crucial MX100 CT256MX100SSD1 256GB SATA III SSD (User Tree)
    2 * Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST31000528AS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA II Mech. HD
    Seagate ST1500DL001-9VT15L Barracuda 7200.12 1.5 TB S
    PSU
    Thermaltake Black Widow TX TR2 850W 80+ Bronze Semi-Mod ATX
    Case
    ThermalTake Level 10 GT (Black)
    Cooling
    Corsair H100 (CPU, dual 140 mm fans on radiator) + Air (2 *
    Keyboard
    Logitech G15 (gen 2)
    Mouse
    Logitech MX Master (shared)
    Internet Speed
    AT&T Lightspeed Gigabit duplex
  • Operating System
    Sabayon Linux (current, weekly updates, 5.1.x kernel)
    Manufacturer/Model
    Lenovo ThinkPad E545
    CPU
    AMD A6-5350M APU
    Motherboard
    Lenovo
    Memory
    8 GB
    Graphics card(s)
    Radeon HD (Embedded)
    Sound Card
    Conextant 20671 SmartAudio HD
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Lenovo 15" Matte
    Screen Resolution
    1680 * 1050
    Hard Drives
    INTEL Cherryvill 520 Series SSDSC2CW180A 180 GB SSD
    PSU
    Lenovo
    Case
    Lenovo
    Cooling
    Lenovo
    Mouse
    Logitech MX Master (shared) | Synaptics TouchPad
    Keyboard
    Lenovo
    Internet Speed
    AT&T LightSpeed Gigabit Duplex
sounds like that drive needs a firmware update:geek:
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Me :P
    CPU
    Core 2 Quad Q6600
    Motherboard
    Abit IN9 32X MAX
    Memory
    8 GB OCZ PC2-6400 nVIDIA SLI-Ready Edition (4X2GB)
    Graphics Card(s)
    AMP! GeForce GTX 260² 896MB 448-bit GDDR3 (650MHz/2100MHz
    Sound Card
    Realtek 7.1 CH HD Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    17" Fujitsu siemens TFT + 32" LG HD LCD TV
    Screen Resolution
    1280x1024 + 1360x768
    Hard Drives
    150GB Raptor HDD
    500GB Caviar HDD
    PSU
    Thermaltake W0133RB 1200W PSU
    Case
    Antec 900
    Cooling
    Stock + Antec 900 case fans
    Keyboard
    Logitech G15 (full layout)
    Mouse
    Logitech MX Revolution
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