Strange Problem with CDs not being read

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Marcus21

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When I tried to play Battlefield 2 a few days ago, I put the CD into the drive and nothing happened. I checked the drive in My Computer and my drive didnt recognize that any disc was inserted. My computer also took a long time when i clicked on the drive and crashed when I attempted to right-click and explore the CD.I thought it was just a problem with the disc and I was planning on reformatting my PC anyway, so i went ahead and reformatted. However, my PC wouldn't read the windows boot disc. I found out that my NEC DVD-RW drive would read DVDs only, not any CD-ROMs. I put the drive into my roomates PC and it wouldn't read CDs in his either so I thought it was the drives problem.

I bought a new LITE-ON DVD-RW drive and reformatted on that. The reformat worked fine except that the new drive wouldn't read any of my driver discs. However, it would read burned CDs, DVDs, and audio CDs. It wouldn't read any of my game CDs or driver CDs. I rebooted my computer and tried again and now it won't read any CDs and it barely reads DVDs. My Computer keeps giving 'Not Responding' messages when trying to access the DVD.

AMD Athlon 64 3000+
Chaintech vnf3-250 nf3 mobo
Corsair 1 GB DDR 400 RAM
120 GB Western Digital HDD
ATI x800 XT AIW AGP video card
Audigy 2 zs audio card

So, now I have no idea what is causing this problem. It can't be a virus or anything as the only thing on my computer is Windows XP and a few drivers. The only thing I can think of is that the motherboard is the problem but I can't figure out why it still reads certain types of media but not others.

Help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
 
What PSU do you have? CD's have to spin a lot faster than DVD's at the same transfer rates, so (making a big guess here) your drive's not getting enough and/or clean power to read the discs.

If you have a quality PSU, then yeah, it's probably the mobo. :eek:
 
My Power Supply is an Antec 300W SL3005.

Maybe it doesn't have enough power for my system as I just upgraded my Radeon 9600 XT to an x800 XT AIW, added an Audigy 2 zs, and added a second fan all within the last few months.

Wouldn't the system show these signs much eariler though? I've been running all this stuff in my PC for the past two months or so.
 
I know you can flash the software on NEC optical drives and they end up performing better, check LiteON for similar stuff. The only other thing that comes to mind is that the cable could be screwy. Try a different cable. And though it shouldn't make a performance difference, if you can, make it the secondary master.
 
I couldn't find any way to flash the software on my LiteON drive. Do you mean upgrade the firmware?

I don't see how the cable can be the problem as my NEC drive wasn't working when I put it into my roomates PC connected to his cables. Also, I already have the DVD drive set as the secondary master while my HDD is the first master.
 
Yeah, flash the firmware. Sorry, I've been reading Cisco stuff all day and they call it software. Give it a shot if you can, and seriously, try a different cable. They're funny that way. And for the hell of it, try it as a primary slave, just to see if it operates normally. Just have to rule out all the possiblities.
 
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