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Steve
Hi,
This one is kicking my but. Here's the story. Been running Windows XP Pro
since release. Have had no problems with any of my hardware or software. I'm
the type who dloads a lot of software for evaluation and I typically
uninstall most of what I try. As you can imaging, this leaves the registry
quite buggered. Heck, Real player left 132 strings in the registry after the
uninstall. Anyway, since its been quite awhile since my last install and I
was starting to get some weird error messages I decided to wipe the drive
and reinstall. The install went without a hitch and I was back up and
running within an hour. The only thing I notice was about a week later I
tried to watch a severely scratched DVD that wouldnt play on my home unit.
This has never presented a problem before. As you will likely tell me, of
course I checked several other DVD's in the drive and not a single one
worked. I checked several music cd's and they were fine. I checked several
game cd's without a problem, even my cd-r's and rw worked fine. Only when
inserting a DVD, the drive light will flicker for a minute or 2 and then
nothing. If I go into windows explorer to look at the file structure, I am
asked to insert a cd even though it is in. I don't even hear the drive
spinnning up as it does for other cd's. I even tried removing the drive,
rebooting, shutting down, reinstalling the drive and then rebooting. I have
tried installing the ASPI layer from Adaptec with no luck. All my drives are
showing as DMA enabled.
Here are the specs but I doubt they mean anything
Athlon 1800+ XP running at 1.4 ghz
ASUS A7A-266 mobo
Windows XP Pro with all the hot fixes
Nero 6.0 burning software.
Next thought is to reinstall Nero thinking maybe it corrupted something.
Then maybe reinstall the OS and the last resort is to buy a new drive as
they are a dime a dozen. I just really want to figure this out for the
future. Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks
Steve
This one is kicking my but. Here's the story. Been running Windows XP Pro
since release. Have had no problems with any of my hardware or software. I'm
the type who dloads a lot of software for evaluation and I typically
uninstall most of what I try. As you can imaging, this leaves the registry
quite buggered. Heck, Real player left 132 strings in the registry after the
uninstall. Anyway, since its been quite awhile since my last install and I
was starting to get some weird error messages I decided to wipe the drive
and reinstall. The install went without a hitch and I was back up and
running within an hour. The only thing I notice was about a week later I
tried to watch a severely scratched DVD that wouldnt play on my home unit.
This has never presented a problem before. As you will likely tell me, of
course I checked several other DVD's in the drive and not a single one
worked. I checked several music cd's and they were fine. I checked several
game cd's without a problem, even my cd-r's and rw worked fine. Only when
inserting a DVD, the drive light will flicker for a minute or 2 and then
nothing. If I go into windows explorer to look at the file structure, I am
asked to insert a cd even though it is in. I don't even hear the drive
spinnning up as it does for other cd's. I even tried removing the drive,
rebooting, shutting down, reinstalling the drive and then rebooting. I have
tried installing the ASPI layer from Adaptec with no luck. All my drives are
showing as DMA enabled.
Here are the specs but I doubt they mean anything
Athlon 1800+ XP running at 1.4 ghz
ASUS A7A-266 mobo
Windows XP Pro with all the hot fixes
Nero 6.0 burning software.
Next thought is to reinstall Nero thinking maybe it corrupted something.
Then maybe reinstall the OS and the last resort is to buy a new drive as
they are a dime a dozen. I just really want to figure this out for the
future. Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks
Steve