Plextor px-716a

rmrj88 · 06-28-2009, 01:53 PM

So i am a little confused. My drive has been working for about a year now and it would burn dvds perfectly fine. Now just yesterday it randomly stopped working. I mean it works.. It will read a dvd, but it will not burn it anymore and if i try to copy any dvd using dvdfab it ends up going at 2.75 kb and then at the end the drive would completely dissapear. I normally use nero to burn and encode, it use to allow me when i clicked make dvd it would come up with the video encoding screen, now when i try it, it asks do i want to make a cd or video cd, like the drive is not a dvd burner at all. I was wondering if maybe a virus could mess something up, but i don't feel like i have one. or did it maybe just die out? but wouldnt the whole drive not work or acknowledge

rmrj88 · 06-29-2009, 01:30 PM

So i take it no one knows.. Ok so i ran a drive test with nero and it says no cd drive found. Even though thru my computer it shows two disk drives. Ones a daemon tools and the other ones my plextor.

rmrj88 · 06-29-2009, 02:24 PM

so i've tried a few applications and it states there is no burning hardware on my computer, but when i go into the properties on my computer and it shows my plextor drive dvdr... Soo

makinu1der2 · 06-30-2009, 03:10 AM

Hello,

Uninstall the drive from Device Manager and restart Windows.

After the reboot Windows will reinstall the device.

Try manually removing the filters. (Just follow the instructions for XP)

http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=k...060&x=12&y=13#

Clean the lens of the drive.

Reinstall burning software.

Try a different burner as the drive may have failed.

rmrj88 · 07-01-2009, 11:28 PM

After 3 hours of registry fixing and checking.. I had a major virus that was inlaid into my computer ... So it is now fixed and my drive working perfect ^_^

makinu1der2 · 07-02-2009, 05:03 AM

Glad you got it sorted and Thanks for posting back.

You can mark this thread solved under thread tools at the top of this page.

06-28-2009, 01:53 PM	#1 (permalink)
rmrj88 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 5 OS: Windows XP	Plextor px-716a So i am a little confused. My drive has been working for about a year now and it would burn dvds perfectly fine. Now just yesterday it randomly stopped working. I mean it works.. It will read a dvd, but it will not burn it anymore and if i try to copy any dvd using dvdfab it ends up going at 2.75 kb and then at the end the drive would completely dissapear. I normally use nero to burn and encode, it use to allow me when i clicked make dvd it would come up with the video encoding screen, now when i try it, it asks do i want to make a cd or video cd, like the drive is not a dvd burner at all. I was wondering if maybe a virus could mess something up, but i don't feel like i have one. or did it maybe just die out? but wouldnt the whole drive not work or acknowledge

06-29-2009, 01:30 PM	#2 (permalink)
rmrj88 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 5 OS: Windows XP	Re: Plextor px-716a So i take it no one knows.. Ok so i ran a drive test with nero and it says no cd drive found. Even though thru my computer it shows two disk drives. Ones a daemon tools and the other ones my plextor.

06-29-2009, 02:24 PM	#3 (permalink)
rmrj88 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 5 OS: Windows XP	Re: Plextor px-716a so i've tried a few applications and it states there is no burning hardware on my computer, but when i go into the properties on my computer and it shows my plextor drive dvdr... Soo

06-30-2009, 03:10 AM	#4 (permalink)
makinu1der2 Tech Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Florida Posts: 2,038 OS: Vista Home Premium SP1,Win XP SP3,Ubuntu 9.04,Sabayon 4,Windows 7 RC1 x64 My System	Re: Plextor px-716a Hello, Uninstall the drive from Device Manager and restart Windows. After the reboot Windows will reinstall the device. Try manually removing the filters. (Just follow the instructions for XP) http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=k...060&x=12&y=13# Clean the lens of the drive. Reinstall burning software. Try a different burner as the drive may have failed. __________________ "The dumbest people I know are those who know it all."

07-01-2009, 11:28 PM	#5 (permalink)
rmrj88 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 5 OS: Windows XP	Solved After 3 hours of registry fixing and checking.. I had a major virus that was inlaid into my computer ... So it is now fixed and my drive working perfect ^_^

07-02-2009, 05:03 AM	#6 (permalink)
makinu1der2 Tech Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Florida Posts: 2,038 OS: Vista Home Premium SP1,Win XP SP3,Ubuntu 9.04,Sabayon 4,Windows 7 RC1 x64 My System	Re: Plextor px-716a Glad you got it sorted and Thanks for posting back. You can mark this thread solved under thread tools at the top of this page. __________________ "The dumbest people I know are those who know it all."