DVD Won't Play, Please Help

[Greg Kamer]

I discovered today that my DVD burner won't play dvd's anymore..... If I put
one of my audio cd disks in, it plays them with no problem. But if I put a
dvd in, and click my dvd software to watch it, it tells me that no valid
disk/drive found....

Someone told me it might be the laser light that reads the dv is shot, so I
have to get a new dvd player/burner.... I thought I'd ask here to see if
there might be something else I can try first....

Running a NEC DVD +RW ND 1100A in a Dell 2.2ghz 512 meg ram running under
WinXP. Thanks for any suggestions/ideas you guys might have.

 

[Duane Phillips]

Have you tried removing and re-installing the device driver? If it is
reading CDs... I don't think the drive is bad. You might also try
re-installing your DVD player software.

~ Duane Phillips.

 

[Greg Kamer]

Hi Duane,
Yes, I have uninstalled and reinstalled both the dvd player
software as well as the dvd player from the system. Once I unistall the
drivers and restart, XP loads the drivers back, I gess it sees the unit and
does it Automatically. I also tried to upgrade the drivers but XP tells me I
have the most current ones.

The way t was explained to me, the dvd player uses different optics (laser
lights) to read audio cd's and dvd, thats why it will play music but not
video.

 

[Jim]

I discovered today that my DVD burner won't play dvd's anymore..... If I put
one of my audio cd disks in, it plays them with no problem. But if I put a
dvd in, and click my dvd software to watch it, it tells me that no valid
disk/drive found....

Someone told me it might be the laser light that reads the dv is shot, so I
have to get a new dvd player/burner.... I thought I'd ask here to see if
there might be something else I can try first....

Running a NEC DVD +RW ND 1100A in a Dell 2.2ghz 512 meg ram running under
WinXP. Thanks for any suggestions/ideas you guys might have.

Dell replaced this unit in my computer with the NEC model 1200 to solve this
problem. Your player is broken. It is obsolescent anyway.

Did you by chance run the diagnostics on your unit (described in the
manual)?
Jim

 

[Greg Kamer]

Alls' well. Must have been a bad encoder. Downloaded up ugdate from WinDVD's
web site and things are back to normal gain. Thanks all.....

 

[Duane Phillips]

Glad to hear it. *Extremely* rare to have optics go out, without a lot of
other problems to...

~ Duane Phillips.