Maybe I can pick the brains of someone here

Okay - my DVD drive has just stopped recognising DVDs. I insert one, it "thinks" for a bit, the light flashes, and it ejects the disk. However, it accepts and reads CDs just fine.
:crazy:

It also displays some other strange behaviour from time to time. Such as once when I bootd, it randomly opened and closed the tray, and another time it wouldn't open at all.

Strange, yes? Is it a hardware fault or is a fixable firmware thing? Has anyone else had / seen this problem? Thanks

Did that player come with a hardware decoder card,Kristel?

You may get some help with these Updated Drivers however, I have troubles and many other problems with Creative's CD Rom & DVD's that I'm inclined to think you should see about a replacement. I’ll never buy another.

Have you updated the "firmware" lately? It may help.

Mucks

I just been having probs with my Creative 12 x DVD.

I suddenly couldn't copy an audio CD using Nero 5551, Nero wouldn't recognise the DVD drive so I had to upgrade to Nero V5582 for it to work.

It worked/works OK with Clone CD.

I'm using Intervideo's WIN DVD software for DVD movie playback, it came with the drive. Works OK, but it's a bit noisy.

All in all, I'm not that impressed with it. It's 13 months old now, time to get me's a Liteon

Flops,

So it did work with Nero 5.5.8.2?

Hi Quads, I'm getting dizzy with all this cross forum talk! :crazy: Hehe...

But yes it worked OK, I've just posted at BBF about it.

Only prob was my old serial number for V5551 wasn't valid for V5582 so I had to secure a new serial number.

Thats funny cause I bought the drive (Plextor) and Nero 5.0 was bundled with it. I continue to upgrade and now using 5.5.8.2 and I never got any message that the upgrade was invalid. I guess I am lucky in that sense.

Anyway, I am glad you got the thing sorted out!

Yes it did - the DXR3 (beta drivers only in W2K >.< )

I tried updating the firmware (0.39 I think) and it didn't help.

Think I'll sell a kidney then go out and buy a new one I got a friend of mine one of those nice slot drives (that don't use a tray) - and I like the look of that - may treat myself!

I'm very disollusioned with creative now. The Soundcards were a letdown after all the hype (SonicFury XG was so much better than my Player5.1!) and they are terrible at supporting new operating systems with updated drivers (look at all the complaints on the DXR3 creative forum!) and their DVD drive gave out just after the warrenty. Drat!

My advice to you, on your next upgrade, stay away from Creative.

Not only do they have horrible driver support (I'm using Live! drivers from 1999, they're the newest), but they have bugs with VIA chipsets.

As for CD-ROM drives, my old Creative 4x wasn't compatible with MS-DOS, so once you formatted the drive, you needed to boot off a floppy, a real issue.

Bah, no more Creative for me.

Creative are terrible. I will not buy anything else from them at least until I start reading about how shiningly good their support has become