DVD problem in WinXP

[zision]

My DVD player WAS working fine in WinXP pro. A couple weeks ago I rented a DVD and watched part of it, and the next day I tried to finish it and when I put the DVD into my drive, WinXP tells me to "insert a disc in drive G:" PowerDVD tells me there's no disc in drive G:. Now it doesn't matter what type of disc I put in that drive, it tells me there's nothing in there. DVD, audio, data. I have no clue what I've changed in my system config to make it do this. My CD-ROM drive in here works fine. I hope someone out there has had this problem and knows what's going on. Microsoft's "knowledge base" is a joke.

Please help, I just rented The Fast and the Furious and need to watch it in the next two days I forgot about my drive not working when I went to the store.

specs:
ABIT KT7A-RAID
Tbird 1.4
512MB SDRAM
GeForce 3
2x 45GB IBM HDDS RAID0
SB Live
Creative 6X DVD-ROM drive
Creative 52X CD-ROM drive
Linksys and Realtek NICs
WinXP Pro

 

[neuralfx]

reinstall your ASPI, you could look for a program called "force aspi1.7", it works pretty well , if reinstall your aspi doesnt work .. does ur dvdrom recognize cd's .. either way, your drive most likely is defective .. and you should try to rma/replace it .. but hopefully refreshing the aspi will work ... though i had a creative 12x do this, and i had to rma it .. good luck ..
-neural

 

[imgod2u]

XP does seem to have a problem with recognizing cd's. I've had problems where the CD would work (and DVD) but autorun would not work no matter what (and the integrated CD-RW support wouldn't work). Later on, I found out this was due to some software I installed (Roxio EasyCD 5 Creator Platinum before the patch was released). I've also found reports of other software messing with XP's drive recognition. To date, I have found any other solution other than clean installing XP with all the hardware intact and watch what software I add to my system.

 

[zision]

tonight I'm going to stick this drive in my other computer and see what happens. I hope it's not the drive. I know they're cheap now, but I don't want to spend the money on another one right now

 

[zision]

oh, and NO discs will play in the drive. CD data, audio, DVDs.

actually, I've installed Easy CD creator recently, maybe that's it. I'll have to mess with that.

 

[zision]

I installed a patch on Easy CD creator and CDs started working again, but it still won't read DVDs. I still get an "invalid format" error.

 

[zision]

OK, my problem is not fixed. It started working and playing fine last night, now tonight it's doing the same thing. I tried the force ASPI program with no luck. I put the drive into another computer running Windows XP, and it still didn't work. I'm guessing it's a bad drive at this point

Anyone else have any ideas?

 

[LarryJoe]

It could be heat, but this has all the signs of a drive that is going bad It most likely will stop being listed at bootup very shortly.

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