DarkDice
11-15-2006, 02:46 AM
Hi
Hope that some happy and bright individual will be able to help me with a problem I am currently having with my CD/DVD_Rom.
The problem I am having is that when I place a CD or DVD in the drive it just doesnt seem to be able to read it. I get lots of whirring noises, and a little green light flashes on the drive and if I try to do anything at all in windows whilst it is trying to do this I suffer numerous crashes or windows freezing up.
Now this is a drive on a computer that is reasonably new. (less than a year old anyway). I have run a DVD cleaner through it (didnt help), I have run through all the options presented on the troubleshooter (didnt help) I have checked the wires (still no help) and I considered kicking it once in frustration (doubt that it would help).
So any ideas at all would be helpful?
One last point. It has gotten progressivly worse. Originally it struggled with a second hand game I had purchased (I just thought it was because the disk was scratched). Since then it has been getting harder and harder to read anything up to the present time of it not reading anything. I tried last night on a brand new, never been used DVD from a magazine. It actually brought up the install menu, before stopping this time.
Any help would be appreciated.
Hope that some happy and bright individual will be able to help me with a problem I am currently having with my CD/DVD_Rom.
The problem I am having is that when I place a CD or DVD in the drive it just doesnt seem to be able to read it. I get lots of whirring noises, and a little green light flashes on the drive and if I try to do anything at all in windows whilst it is trying to do this I suffer numerous crashes or windows freezing up.
Now this is a drive on a computer that is reasonably new. (less than a year old anyway). I have run a DVD cleaner through it (didnt help), I have run through all the options presented on the troubleshooter (didnt help) I have checked the wires (still no help) and I considered kicking it once in frustration (doubt that it would help).
So any ideas at all would be helpful?
One last point. It has gotten progressivly worse. Originally it struggled with a second hand game I had purchased (I just thought it was because the disk was scratched). Since then it has been getting harder and harder to read anything up to the present time of it not reading anything. I tried last night on a brand new, never been used DVD from a magazine. It actually brought up the install menu, before stopping this time.
Any help would be appreciated.