DVD drive not recognizing DVD

rhea_sparrowrhea_sparrow
edited April 2004 in Hardware
ok..sorry if this has been asked before, but not even my computer whiz bro could figure this one out..

my dvd drive which 'pretty' much always worked with movie DVDs is suddenly not working! Even a dvd that i know for a fact worked in this drive before doesnt work anymore.. it keeps saying there is no disc in the drive.. now out of a stack of 25 DVDs one of them worked, but thats the only one! Even DVDs that are SUPPOSED to work in computers arent working.. (ones that have special features for the computer and such) I dont know what's more puzzling.. the fact that a DVD that has worked in his comp before no longer works, or the fact that for some reason ONE dvd out of 25 WILL work.. very strange!

INFO:I have windows XP, my dvd drive is "PIONEER DVD rom DVD-116R" if that helps.. these DVDs all work on my actual dvd player, they're not damaged! The dvd drive plays music CDs and game CDs just fine..

these dvds are all the same region too! in the dvd-rom settings it says its set to region 1, the same as the dvds i was trying..

sorry if this sounds like a n00b question, i just really need help! I hope this was posted in the right forum/isnt a question thats been asked 19873 times.. there was a post similar to mine but the answers that people gave were really confusing, LOL! Be gentle..

Comments

  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited April 2004
    Clean it. Mine does this every few months too.
  • rhea_sparrowrhea_sparrow
    edited April 2004
    oh ok! umm.. perhaps an even dumber question.. how do i clean it?? ^^; do I blow into it? do I dismantle the whole thing? do I use those compressed air thingamajigs? hehe.. Also, any idea why that 1 of those 25 dvds would work? (the same 1 dvd worked each time no matter what was put in before or after it) curious indeed

    also, is the reason music/game cds still work because where dvds are read is a different place than where cds are read? and THAT part is the part that needs cleaning? just wondering..

    ~Rhea
  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited April 2004
    Go to a store (such as Best Buy, CompUSA, etc) and buy a CD-Drive cleaner disk. They usually go for pretty darn cheap ($10 or less) and work for many cleaning cycles. Common ones have little brushes on them, and when a particular track number is played, the brushes wipe the crap off the lense.

    The reason only one disk of 25 works is anyone's guess, but mine show the same symptoms when they need cleaning.
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