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DVD drive nightmares!

  • 20-08-2006 6:38pm
    #1
    Womble75
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭


    Hi all! I'm new to this forum so bear with me... ;)

    OK, here goes....

    In April '05 I bought a HP Pavilion t770 and up to now had no problems whatsoever with it. However, a couple of weeks ago I noticed that when the PC booted up, and started Windows Xp, there was a loud whirring noise and the sound of vibration from the F: drive (a Samsung DVD-ROM SD-616E) :eek:

    As I play Silent Hunter 3 almost every day, I've been leaving the disk in the drive ALL the time, but never had this noise before.

    I put the disk in the E: drive intead(a HP DVD Witer 630c) and it seemed fine but only for a few days because then the drive would not read the disc nor would it play ANY other disk of any type.

    I put the disk back in the F: drive but alas that's not reading it or any other disk either.

    So now I'm stuck with NO CD/DVD drive capability of any descrption which means I can't play any of my games or backup any data incase I bring the PC to a repair shop.

    Both drives are showing up in the device manager and are "working properly"!

    Occasionally, 1 disk (Locomotion) will work in the E: drive but only very rarely.

    I've tried updating the drivers and rolling them back but nothing seems to happen. I've also tried uninstalling them and re-installing them but still no joy. They just refuse to read any disks at all.

    Any idea what's caused this or how I would rectify it?

    Thanks in advance ;)


Comments

  • #2
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Lens could be dirty, try a cd/dvd rom lens cleaner. Even if it turns out that the DVD ROM is fecked, you could get one for next to nothing these days.


  • #3
    Anti
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,401 ✭✭✭✭Anti


    also unplug the ide leads to them and replug them ( this means opening up your pc ) but it is straight forward and easy to do.

    But like ruu said, it sounds like they just need cleaning. PcWorld do kits for about a tenner. Or any shop that sells cd's like golden disks and hmv. It does not have to be a pc cd/dvd cleaner. any old one will do.


  • #4
    Urban Kaos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 53 ✭✭Urban Kaos


    Since u have sai that the drive was making a whirring and vibration could indicate a blown motor within the DVD drive (f:\)

    I would bear in mind the whole cleaning schabang (and there always handy elsewhere) for your other drive; otherwise maplins tend to be good for spare parts

    ;)


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