My CD/DVDRW Reads but wont work somebody help please :(

ScrinOwns · 07-27-2007, 11:47 AM

My old DVDRW reccently died on me and snapped 1 of my disks so I went and bought a new top of the range DVDRW and it still dosent work. I bought a LITEON DVDRW LH-20A1P Lightscribe and I installed it. I only run 1 drive off my computer and I set it to master it installed the drivers but when I insert a disk or a game or a music cd or dvd it reads it but wont play or when I double click the drive it freezes my machine I went into the boot up nd changed it to boot from disk chucked my XP cd in nd it reads every file perfectly is it something to do with windows ? I took it back and the tech guy tested it and it worked fine ! he said it must be something with my computer he said to reformat and my dad says the same thing. I am unsure and I really dont want to reformat my computer its a last resort can somebody please help me ?

dai · 07-27-2007, 05:06 PM

have you used an 80 wire cable on it
remove the upper and lower filters
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929461
check for a firmware update

07-27-2007, 11:47 AM	#1 (permalink)
ScrinOwns Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Australia Posts: 1 OS: XP	My CD/DVDRW Reads but wont work somebody help please :( My old DVDRW reccently died on me and snapped 1 of my disks so I went and bought a new top of the range DVDRW and it still dosent work. I bought a LITEON DVDRW LH-20A1P Lightscribe and I installed it. I only run 1 drive off my computer and I set it to master it installed the drivers but when I insert a disk or a game or a music cd or dvd it reads it but wont play or when I double click the drive it freezes my machine I went into the boot up nd changed it to boot from disk chucked my XP cd in nd it reads every file perfectly is it something to do with windows ? I took it back and the tech guy tested it and it worked fine ! he said it must be something with my computer he said to reformat and my dad says the same thing. I am unsure and I really dont want to reformat my computer its a last resort can somebody please help me ?

07-27-2007, 05:06 PM	#2 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,690 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	Re: My CD/DVDRW Reads but wont work somebody help please :( have you used an 80 wire cable on it remove the upper and lower filters http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929461 check for a firmware update __________________