NEC 3520a - sudden problem reading some dvd
| NEC / Optiarc Writer Discuss, NEC 3520a - sudden problem reading some dvd at CD and DVD Writers forum; Hello folks, Hope you can help me with my query. The dvd drive NEC 3520a - working fine for a year. Yesterday, it will not recognise any game disk, neither a game i have already installed nor a new game disk. I've tried 5 different game disks and get only |
| Hello folks, Hope you can help me with my query. The dvd drive NEC 3520a - working fine for a year. Yesterday, it will not recognise any game disk, neither a game i have already installed nor a new game disk. I've tried 5 different game disks and get only ' no disk inserted' or 'please insert disk into drive D' (the dvd drive) pops-ups. OS: win 2000 sp3. The drive still reads and plays burned dvd media and plays dvd film (pre-recorded media) and it still can burn dvd/cd I'm mystified. Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated. Jules |
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| SP3? Please install SP4. Uninstall the IDE channels in Devicemanager and restart, maybe that helps.
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| Thanks for the suggestion 'Chef' - I appreciate the help. However, it didn't help. I uninstalled the IDE channel and rebooted and installed the windows IDE instead of the Nvidia. I also updated the firmware to the latest. Since then I have moved the dvd drive unit to a machine with WinXP SP 2 and it still does the same thing: doesn't read/find any cd or dvd with game or installation or 'data' on it but still reads cd and dvd with video files, dvd movie files, jpgs. I will see if it still burns in a few minutes. Any further ideas? Thanks in advance for your time. |
| That's weird, maybe it needs to be cleaned?!
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| Okay, cleaning with a 'cleaning disk' as bought from a computer shop? Sorry to be so dumb, but i don't know what experts recommend for cleaning. |
| Would be the easiest way, but not the best. The best would be by opening up the drive...
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| Thanks. Opened up the case but it looks very clean i.e. no fluff. Placed in another computer running a fresh copy of WinXP, still same issue. Will try lens cleanber tomorrow. |
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