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DVD-RW drive will not read DVDs, but reads CDs
Well, sir, I bought me a new Sony DVD RW DRU-810A, I install it, and everything works great...for about 2 weeks. Yesterday, for no reason, the CD drive stops reading/recognizing cds, cd-roms, cd-rs, but now the dvd drive is fine! This is the opposite of what was going on before. I originally...- mikelwood
- Post #17
- Forum: PC hardware - Peripheral issues
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DVD-RW drive will not read DVDs, but reads CDs
Well, after putting my dvd drive into a different cpu, it did the exact same thing, cds and cd-roms played fine, but dvd acted like nothing was in the drive at all. It surprised me that I could have hardware failure for dvds but not cds. Oh, well, hey, thanx for all your help!- mikelwood
- Post #15
- Forum: PC hardware - Peripheral issues
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DVD-RW drive will not read DVDs, but reads CDs
I have the same problem as chameleon35 had originally, everything works, but the dvd drive acts like it is empty. I tried steps 1-4 above and still no luck. I had gone into the DMA area, and like cdogg just mentioned, the primary IDE is forcing 'Ultra DMA Mode 5' and the secondary IDE (which...- mikelwood
- Post #9
- Forum: PC hardware - Peripheral issues
