well guys i'm at the end of my wits here i have lite on dvdrw drive that wont reed cd's but plays dvd's now i have removed in from my computer and tryed in 2 other computers and it reeds and writes anything fine but as soon an it is back in this computer with Vista Ultimate 32bit it wont reed cd's i have tryed all the driver things i even formatted my computer and it worked for a few weeks then back to the same thing i even pulled it and put in a cdrw but it would not reed so i tryed a dvd rom and it worked ireally dont get it i need some help is i have been looking all over and a lot of people have this happen to them but noone seems to know how to fix it
help dvd drive works but wont reed cd's
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Night Hawk
Vista Guru
I just had to replace a drive here when at first it refused to even see dvd-rw disks in the drive. At first a new cable worked well for all disks until just lately hearing a grinding sound while trying to boot off of a live cd. New cable or drive? I tried both out here.
My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- Custom built desktops =2 Toshiba replace HP laptop
- CPU
- AMD Phenom II X4 975 Deneb core 3.6ghz
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-790XTA-UD4
- Memory
- Kingston Hyper X 1.5v DDR3 PC12800 1600mhz 16gb
- Graphics Card(s)
- MSI Radeon HD 5750 1tb
- Sound Card
- Creative X-Fi XtremeAudio PCIe
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Asus 19" HP 20" second lcd main HP 20" remote pc.
- Screen Resolution
- 1440x900, 1600x900 main - 1600x900 2nd desktop
- Hard Drives
- WD Black Edition 1tb Sata II -2
WD SAS "Heavy Duty" RE class 2tb - 2
External usb/eSata WD Black 1tb main -1
External usb only WD Green Power 1tb -1
- PSU
- Corsair 750w 750TX main - Corsair 600w remote
- Case
- Antec 900-2 - SSD compatible eSata ports 2 - NZXT Vulcan 2nd
- Cooling
- Zalman CNPS9900A cpu, twin front 120s, top 200cm, rear 120
- Keyboard
- AZIO Ilumminated keys gaming keyboard/volume control usb
- Mouse
- MSI Interceptor D200
- Internet Speed
- 30mbps upgrade
Do you have any other cd ripping/burning tools installed - or any or the commercial apps. like Nero , etc?
SIW2
SIW2
My Computers
System One System Two
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- Operating System
- Vista
- CPU
- Intel E8400
- Motherboard
- ASRock1333-GLAN R2.0
- Memory
- 4gb DDR2 800
- Graphics Card(s)
- nvidia 9500GT 1gb
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- Operating System
- win7/vista
- CPU
- intel i5-8400
- Motherboard
- gigabyte b365m ds3h
- Memory
- ballistix 2x8gb 3200
Night Hawk
Vista Guru
With the cable replaced the next thought would be the connection on the board since the drive seems to work well on other systems. Have you tried a different drive on this one inplace of the problem drive?
If you see another drive run into the same problems since Windows has been reinstalled ruling out an OS problem of some type you may be seeing a cold solder point on the connector itself. But if another works normal leave that one in and put the problem drive on a system you know it works on.
If you see another drive run into the same problems since Windows has been reinstalled ruling out an OS problem of some type you may be seeing a cold solder point on the connector itself. But if another works normal leave that one in and put the problem drive on a system you know it works on.
My Computer
System One
-
- Manufacturer/Model
- Custom built desktops =2 Toshiba replace HP laptop
- CPU
- AMD Phenom II X4 975 Deneb core 3.6ghz
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-790XTA-UD4
- Memory
- Kingston Hyper X 1.5v DDR3 PC12800 1600mhz 16gb
- Graphics Card(s)
- MSI Radeon HD 5750 1tb
- Sound Card
- Creative X-Fi XtremeAudio PCIe
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Asus 19" HP 20" second lcd main HP 20" remote pc.
- Screen Resolution
- 1440x900, 1600x900 main - 1600x900 2nd desktop
- Hard Drives
- WD Black Edition 1tb Sata II -2
WD SAS "Heavy Duty" RE class 2tb - 2
External usb/eSata WD Black 1tb main -1
External usb only WD Green Power 1tb -1
- PSU
- Corsair 750w 750TX main - Corsair 600w remote
- Case
- Antec 900-2 - SSD compatible eSata ports 2 - NZXT Vulcan 2nd
- Cooling
- Zalman CNPS9900A cpu, twin front 120s, top 200cm, rear 120
- Keyboard
- AZIO Ilumminated keys gaming keyboard/volume control usb
- Mouse
- MSI Interceptor D200
- Internet Speed
- 30mbps upgrade