DVD drive won't recognize DVDs

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Michael Quint

I recently upgraded to Windows XP Pro from Home. I can
read cd data and cd audio, but when a dvd is put in the
drive, nothing happens. When clicked on from 'my
computer', the drive says there is no disk in drive. I
have downloaded new IDE drivers and new dvd decoding
patches. I have PowerDVD 3.0.
I am running a P4 2GHz,
<700 MB RAM,
45 GB Hard Drive,
a HP CD-RW Drive
and the infamous generic IDE DVD Drive.
I'm on an MSI SiS motherboard. Help Me Please!
 
same problem with my dvd-cannot play a movie----not responding:thinks there is no disk in the drive!
 
CD/DVD drives by ALL makers these days are cheesy
plastic pieces of crap.

Whenever I have one that starts giving me trouble such as
you all are having, I just replace it. Happened just yesterday with
a 2 year old Pioneer DVD-115 - it suddenly simply refused to "see" a DVD-R
as
anothing other than an Audio CD with no tracks. Same disc on 4 other
computers ran fine. Replaced the DVD-115 with
a DVD-106 (I always keep two new spare DVD drives in the box and
ready to go) and now everything's peachy.

Works every time.

I would GLADLY pay $100 for an optical drive that would
last for more than two years...

Steenkim said:
I am having the exact same problem. Insert a DVD and your drive just sits
Click to expand...
there after spinning for a bit. Then you try to watch it manually with
anything and you see that the drive still sits in "no disc in drive _:". I
would love to find out why and get it fixed. I've tried patches and changing
resolutions anything I can find to help with no avail.
 
The DVD used a different lens than the CD so it would partially be explained
by that. Optical drives are definitely short life in this household. Back
in the days of Windows95/98, I was overjoyed when I got one to last more
than about 14 months!

I guess it's this 'disposable' world in which we now live. The average life
of a PC is only two years, and that of a printer seven years.

Scary.
 
I was able to get this fixed just by cleaning my tower. I found inches of
lint and dust inside it. I CAREFULLY moved things around and used a can of
compressed air. In fact, I used the whole thing dusting the inside of it. I
put everything back and re-inserted a DVD. I was able to view it without any
problems using any program I wanted.
 
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