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Thread ID: 88458 2008-03-28 02:37:00 DVD/CD Drive question Growler (12596) Press F1
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653461 2008-03-28 02:37:00 I have put in two DVD/CD drives into the old mans machine. They both come up in the properties that they are DVD/CD drives yet they both don't recognise CD's. One of the drives is brand new.
I have put in pleanty of drives into my machines in the past with no troubles what so ever.
Both are Pioneer drives. One is a DVR-112D (Brand new) and the other is a Pioneer 109 drive. Now I have this drive in my own machine and it recognises CD's and DVD's.
Any ideas I need to look at to get the drives to recognise CD's? (I have tried blank CD's and Audio CD's with no luck).
Growler (12596)
653462 2008-03-28 02:40:00 And what happens when you put a blank cd or audio cd in??

What program did u use, to test them with ?
Speedy Gonzales (78)
653463 2008-03-28 02:48:00 Have you set the jumpers on the drive correctly? (ie master/slave/cable select) jwil1 (65)
653464 2008-03-28 07:22:00 And what happens when you put a blank cd or audio cd in??

What program did u use, to test them with ?
Nothing. If I go to mycomputer/devices etc it doesn't show up in the screen that thier is a disc in there. If I click on the drive to open the CD it tells me there is no disc there. Yet when I put in a DVD (Blank or otherwise) it works fine.
I have the jumpers set correctly, and even swapped them around etc but that makes no difference.

Is there a program to test the drives?
All I have used so far is the default windows XP.
Growler (12596)
653465 2008-03-28 09:38:00 Does it show up in the BIOS? jwil1 (65)
653466 2008-03-28 19:30:00 What software did you install to burn with? Nero?

What happens if leave a CD in and reboot the machine? Can it see the CD once Windows has reloaded?
Jen (38)
653467 2008-03-28 19:34:00 See if this fixes it (www.microsoft.com)

It'll check the autorun info in the registry,if its not there or not working, it should fix it. Take any cd's/dvds out first
Speedy Gonzales (78)
653468 2008-03-28 20:39:00 Does it show up in the BIOS?
Yep.


What software did you install to burn with? Nero?

What happens if leave a CD in and reboot the machine? Can it see the CD once Windows has reloaded?
Yes - Nero 7 Premium.
I think I did reboot with the CD in the machine, but can't remember if it recognised it or not. I can try it again next tiome I see him.


See if this fixes it (www.microsoft.com)

It'll check the autorun info in the registry,if its not there or not working, it should fix it. Take any cd's/dvds out first
Cheers for that. I will try this over the weekend.
Growler (12596)
653469 2008-03-28 20:51:00 Did you make sure a cd was selected in Nero??

And that its not on Image recorder, before you burned whatever?
Speedy Gonzales (78)
653470 2008-03-29 10:35:00 Did you make sure a cd was selected in Nero??

And that its not on Image recorder, before you burned whatever?
We haven't got as far as the burning stage. We turn on the machine, put a CD into the drive and it doesn't recognise a CD (Audio or blank). Put a DVD in there and all is sweet.
Now the machine has two CD/DVD drives. The one that came with the machine is fine. It's the new drive that doesn't recognise CD's.
Confused? - OK. I have three drives. One CD/DVD reader that works great. The other two are CD/DVD burners. It's the burners that don't recognise CD's. I have changed all of the drivers to be master/slave etc in all configurations but the burners are still not reading CD's.
Growler (12596)
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