DVD drive problems

[GFreeman9]

I just bought a Sony DW-Q30A DVD Drive, but it won't detect any media I put in it. BIOS and Windows detect it fine but nothing I can do fixes the problem. Any ideas on solving this?

 

[BillLeeLee]

So it doesn't read anything? Data discs, audio CDs, nothing?

First, let's see if the drive can actually read discs. Get a bootable disc (like a windows install cd or something like the ultimate bootCD) and place it in the drive. Restart your computer and make sure your BIOS is set to boot from the optical drives before it boots from hard drives. If the system boots the CD, then the drive works. If not, well, you most likely have a lemon and you should return it or exchange it.

If you get past that, there's probably a problem elsewhere. Check the jumpers, swap IDE cables, swap IDE channels, see if that helps. If not, do you have IDE drivers installed for your mobo? They might be a cause of problems with optical drives, so try to upgrade them or uninstall them to see if that fixes the problems.

Last thing you can try doing is going into device manager and removing the drive from DM. Reboot the system and windows will auto-reconfigure the drive.

If nothing works, just return or exchange the drive.

HTH.

 

[GFreeman9]

I would think everything should be fine, since all I did was remove an old drive put a new one in. Then I deleted the drivers and let Windows configure it itself. Nothing seemed to work so I'm going to try the bootable disk option.

 

[gud4u]

You could be the latest victim of the Nvidia IDE driver.

I had a similar problem with Nvidia IDE driver when installing a new optical drive on my old Abit NF7Sv2 board. The fix was to roll back the IDE driver to standard Windows IDE driver.

Of course, since it's Sony, it might have installed a root trojan (kidding).

Why does anyone buy anything from Sony, a company that intentionaly installs root trojans on customers' systems? Not kidding!

Hope this helps!