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lucied5
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_ 		18. June 2008 @ 07:44 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I haven't changed anything on my computer since i installed the new OS. (Vista 32 Ultimate) and that was about a month ago. My Optiarc AD-7190A DVD +-RW drive worked fine until recently. For no apparent reason it no longer properly reads any discs.

When i place a disk into the drive it will not update the name of the media in the My Computer window, just says DVDRW Drive. Whenever I put in a game cd or dvd and try to play, it says no disc inserted. The auto play function no longer works.

Sometimes when i try to put in a game disk and explore the cd or dvd, it thinks there's an empty disc in the drive. When I go to My Computer screen and look at the drive icon, it will be a general application icon (the sheet of paper with little icons on it) and it will say whatever the last disc put in the drive was before i turned off my computer.

Last night i had UT3 dvd in the drive and turned off my computer with it in there, now no matter what i put in the drive it says DVDRW (E:\) UT3_RC7. If i put in my World of Warcraft cd and restart the computer it says DVDRW(E:\) WoW_cd2. And so on for any cd or dvd i put in that drive.

If i double click the drive icon, it thinks theres a blank disc. If i explore it i can see all the proper cd/dvd files on the disc.
I have tried many things but i don't know what the issue is.
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ferguj1
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_ 		1. July 2008 @ 22:07 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Have you tried uninstalling the driver for your DVD drive from your device manager and then restarting to let Windows re-install the drive. Have had to do this once or twice with my drives, might help.

J
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