Blu-Ray / HDDVD LG GGC-H20L Combo Drive Issues

prosperolt: Did you use the LG drive to install Windows? Did you insert a regular DVD, HD-DVD, or Blu-ray disc when it hanged?

Yes, I used the LG drive to install Windows Vista.

I inserted a regular DVD when it hangs.

It hangs whether it's a data CD and when it's a video DVD in both cases.

PLEASE HELP!

Updated FW to 1.03, no luck.

Vista still hangs, recognizes drive, but hangs when trying to access it.

Do you have nVidia drivers installed? If so, remove them.

yes, i'm running the CUDA drivers along with an 8600GT

i need the 8600GT for my HD playback

How about drivers for the nVidia chipset on the motherboard? Those nVidia, too? Or are they Windows' stock drivers?

yes, those would be nvidia as well

how can i run the computer without the correct drivers for the chipset?

Well, instead of completely uninstalling them, see if you can't just "update" to the Windows generic IDE controller driver using Device Manager. This will have the same effect, and be a bit safer.

Have you tried this in one of the earlier post?

i bought the LG GGC-H20L drive about a week ago and it has given me tons of troule and driven me nuts. i have a newer computer with amd 780g mobo. it seems that the drive is not compatiable with it. every time i tried to play a blue ray movie, the computer just froze. i tried vista and xp. it did tha same thing. i guess it has nothing to do with the os. i install the drive to another pc with intel 965p chipset and it can play normally. i bought the Planet Earth blue ray movies. i can only play one of them normally and the others have sound but no video. anyone has the same issue? and what could be wrong? by the way the player is Power dvd 8 ultra. any help will be very appriciated.

Same sitch here.... Running a Phenom 8750 on a Gigabyte 790GX and Radeon 4670. Previously had PDVD8 Ultra (upgrade from OEM 7.3) installed alongside Arcsoft TMT, and both would studder until freezing completely. Uninstalled PDVD8, and TMT runs, albeit with heavy studder. Have tried the Iron Man and Indy Jones/Crystal Skull BD-Roms from Netflix, and both have played with heavy lag. I'm going to uninstall Arcsoft tonite, and reinstall the bundled 7.3 ultra, then update to the latest 3.40 build and see if I have any betterluck. BluRAy advisors indicates that all of my specs are upto date (4GB Ram and Vista32bit, also) In any case, I can't recommend PDVD8 Ultra at all, as I never even got past the 2nd chapter of either movie with it.

Did you look to see if hardware acceleration was turned on and actually working? Stuttering is usually caused when hardware acceleration isn't working right and the CPU is taking the load. You'll find your CPU pegged when that happens.

HW Accel is checked in both my 4670 and 3300 profiles, but suprisingly the studdering is only slightly worse while watching from the native HDMI of the 790GX.

Should I not be checking the applications preferences boxes, when asked to customize settings. Does allowing the respective applications control things like video settings affect the Catalyst A.I.? Should I disable Catalyst A.I.??

I have a pretty baseline system with all of the current drivers. I'm not sure how others with identical 4xx0 Radeons and AMD chipsets are having worry-free playback with either PDVD7.3/8 or TMT, yet my config can barely spit out more than 2 scenes without sputtering and fizzling out.


Gigabyte 790gx
MSI Radeon 4670 w/ DVI-HDMI dongle
4GB A-DATA PC-6400 RAM
Western Digital 500GB SATAII HD
LG GGC-H20L
Antec Fusion Remote Max
Sony KLCD -V4100.

I honestly don't know about the catalyst setup. I've always kept it default for my two ATI machines. But it definitely seems to me that HW Acc is not working for you. That'd be the source of your issue. I'm not sure how to help you with that issue. Perhaps searching AVSForum might turn up some answers.

Can I do this....

LG GGC-H20L --> SATA to USB 2.0 adapter --> USB 2.0 (9 foot cable) --> PC

LG GGC-H20L Data transfer rates:
BD-ROM 215.79 Mbits/s (6x) max
HD DVD-ROM 109.65 Mbits/s (3x) max
DVD-ROM 22.16 Mbytes/s (16x) max
CD-ROM 6,000 Kbytes/s (40x) max

USB 2.0 Data transfer rates:
480Mb/s

Thanks,
Chris

I have a similar issue with GGC-H20L from yesterday.

I am running Windows XP SP3. When I insert a Blu-ray disc, the hard disk activity light on the cabinet stays on a for a few minutes, while the Blu-ray drive's LED flashes only once in like 15 seconds. This process might continue for like 15 minutes. Then the disc becomes playable.

But what really happens here is that, the drive has switched from UDMA to PIO mode. As a result, the playback is not as smooth as it used to be. Also Picture-in-Picture tracks play real jerky. And now that the drive is in PIO mode, there aren't any more delays in detecting the disc. It detects within a few seconds from insertion. But as PIO mode's data transfer rates suck, the smoothness in playback is missing.

Now I wanted to get back to UDMA mode. So I uninstalled the correct IDE channel in the Device Manager and gave a restart. Upon restart, Windows detected the IDE channel and set it to UDMA mode correctly. But again when I insert the disc, the same issues occur and ultimately Windows sets it to PIO mode. The same issue applies for HD-DVD too.

I wonder if this is due to any physical damage to the drive. Or could it be a software issue?

Is there anything special you had to do to make it work? I just received mine today, and it's not reading any discs (cd/dvd/blu/hd). I have it connected to the intel SATA controller.

*edit

Forgot to mention. I'm running Vista 32bit Ultimate

Nothing special needed, as long as your BIOS setting is not RAID, just plug it in and you will be all set. Please report back and let us know.

Still nothing. What scares me is that when I put a disc into the drive, I see the light blink a couple of times, but I never hear it rev up, not even once.

It's set to AHCI, unless I have something setup wrong on the BIOS. Also, in the BIOS I can see options for JMicron, but I don't see any Intel specific ones.

I just installed the Intel SATA Controller Manager, and it looks like it reinstalled the drivers for the drive. I ran the Cyberlink BD/HD Advisor and it detects both a HD-DVD and Blu-Ray drive, but still not reading discs of any kind.

Hello all,

I am new here, and I just picked up this drive (LG GGC-H20L) and am having similar problems. When I first installed it, vista 32-bit picked it up, installed the drivers, and it worked just fine. I was able to rip 2 blu-rays no problem. Then, I tried putting in an hd-dvd. No dice, didnt read it. Now it does not recognize any HD discs. Data CDs are recognized after a very long wait.

Seems like the same problems as above, except that at first it did work. My chipset is AMD 690G.

Any ideas? I would like to rule out faulty drive before buying an SATA card. I thought it was perhaps some software conflict, and I have been having vista problems, so rolled back to XP. Still no luck there, though I am trying one more time.

Thanks,
Matt

Like a bad penny I'm back after a long break, like about 3/4 years.

Ordered the H20L and it should be here in two days. Have a quick question on my set-up: Hopefully it is only a monitor problem.

Sytem:
Proc: E6400 Overclocked to 3.2 GHz
MB: Gigabyte P965-DQ6 rev 1
Mem: 4 gigs, DDR2-800 At 1::1 (FSB=1600
HDDs: 4 Drives (2 pair of Raid0)
OP: Dual Boot XPPro on WD & vista32 Bus on 2nd pair of HDDs
Optical: On Jmicron controller - Plextor 755SA ( removed Samsung ODD - Was working but just did not reinstall when switching out Case.)
GPU: ATI 4870 512MB

Monitor Dell 20 in (4:3) with DVI, VGA, Composite In (Extrenal Liton LVW-5001 attached and S-Video in. Paid $800 about 4/5 yrs ago and love the monitor. I just bought a VIZIO HD TV W/VGA input (720P) that is hook up to my Back-up computer and a Liteon LVW 5005.

If the Dell will not work (Prabably not - ????) I'm quessing that the Cheap-o Vizio will ???l

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Last edited by BGene; 10-12-2008 at 06:29. Reason: Correct spelling

If your screen is not HDCP compatible (which it may be) then just hook it up with the vga cord and it will work just fine.

The other option is use anydvd hd.

OK, Received the drive yesterday. Swapped my monitor as the Dell was not HDCP. Using the ViZio with HDCMI cable from the computer.
Vista 32.
Ran the advisor - good to go. Installed Cyberlink 7.3 + Patch (Which was more like a reinstall). Played a Blu-ray Disk (Stoped after 10 to 15 mins - Looked fine), Then burned a DVD+R of a DVD movie. Did a quality scan with Plextools using Plextor 755SA drive - looked good but not great.

Now the fun, XP pro: ( I have dual boot selectable from Bios using F12 not a boot manager).
Ran advisor - every thing OK - Should be as exact same hardware as vista Plus same Cat version 8.10 or 8.11.

Xp would not play blue-ray, Cyberlink only comes up with the DVD option. If I try to play a Blu-ray disk it plays fine for 6 to 7 sec then it stops and comes up with "Connect VGA cable" BUT Vista is fine with this setup???. I figure it's a software problem - But after deleteing other Programs (ie Nero 7) and reinstalling Cyberlink - still no workeeeee.

Any Ideas - or should I as one reviewer did "use the CD as a Frizzbe" and buy nero 8 w/plugin?????

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Last edited by BGene; 12-12-2008 at 07:50. Reason: spelling

Hi,

I have exactly the same problem. In XP the Drive is on DMA Mode, when accessed, it switches to PIO. After deleting the IDE Channel and a reboot, it's on DMA again, on access back to PIO...

Have you found a solution to this problem or can anyone else help? The Board is a Biostar GF 7050.

I also have Vista installed. There, the drive doesn't switch to DMA but when accessed it slows down everything and nothing can be read from the drive...

I hope someone can help.

Robert