NZFF

Posted: **Tue Oct 14, 2014 10:50 pm**

Been having this issue for the last few months. I can play music on my laptop but the cd/dvd drive wont recognise game discs. Hardware manager doesn't detect any problems, drivers appear to be up to date... Anyone else come across this?

Posted: **Wed Oct 15, 2014 4:50 am**

Assuming you have Windows 7, try START/COMPUTER/right click on your DVD drive/install or run from your media

Posted: **Wed Oct 15, 2014 7:32 am**

We might need a bit more info:

When you put in a game disc (or any data disc for that matter) can you see the files on the disc in Windows Explorer, or it doesn't recognize the disc at all?
What type of discs are not recognized? Re-writable ones or "factory: discs?
Have you done an Win7 update recently? On of the updates had a bug in it as I remember.

Dan

Posted: **Wed Oct 15, 2014 8:38 am**

Ok, I can play music discs no problem but game DVDs go in and it screeches and groans for a bit and then pops them out again. It doesn't show there even being a disc in the drive in explorer. I'm on Win7. Updates haven't been done for a while (that's a different problem altogether)

Posted: **Wed Oct 15, 2014 8:52 am**

I think this is quite common for a failing drive. It takes a lot more laser power to read a DVD than a CD, so that's what goes first. Maybe give the laser a bit of a blow, just in case it is just something getting in the way.
But generally, drives fail quite often.

Posted: **Wed Oct 15, 2014 9:49 am**

At least that is something that can be replaced. Unlike my USB drives

Posted: **Wed Oct 15, 2014 10:58 am**

chopper_nut wrote:
QUOTE (chopper_nut @ Oct 15 2014,10:49 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
At least that is something that can be replaced. Unlike my USB drives

Yeah probably time to replace it. OEM's are like 20-25 bucks anywhere these days

Posted: **Wed Oct 15, 2014 11:58 am**

chopper_nut wrote:
QUOTE (chopper_nut @ Oct 14 2014,11:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Been having this issue for the last few months. I can play music on my laptop but the cd/dvd drive wont recognise game discs. Hardware manager doesn't detect any problems, drivers appear to be up to date... Anyone else come across this?

Hi, just before you take the axe to the machine, open Start/control panel/ all control panel items/ autoplay.

Check what you have as instructions for what happens.. There may have been a change in these fields.

Cheers - hope you find a solution

Opps, sorry about the screenshot size,

Posted: **Wed Oct 15, 2014 4:31 pm**

Just done a little experimenting, the only thing it won't play is games. CDs and movie DVDs work perfectly.

Posted: **Thu Oct 16, 2014 2:31 pm**

chopper_nut wrote:
QUOTE (chopper_nut @ Oct 15 2014,5:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Just done a little experimenting, the only thing it won't play is games. CDs and movie DVDs work perfectly.

Have a read of this...
http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/win8/...typeautorun.htm

Should be the same for win 7

Posted: **Thu Oct 16, 2014 4:02 pm**

Yeh I went and had a look at that. It isn't an autoplay issue. It wont read the disc at all.

Posted: **Fri Oct 17, 2014 7:45 am**

chopper_nut wrote:
QUOTE (chopper_nut @ Oct 16 2014,5:02 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Yeh I went and had a look at that. It isn't an autoplay issue. It wont read the disc at all.

Darn! If ya have cleaned the lens, and the discs can be read by another drive/computer, then ya just gonna have to spend the bucks....

Posted: **Fri Oct 17, 2014 9:39 am**

omitchell wrote:
QUOTE (omitchell @ Oct 15 2014,11:58 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Yeah probably time to replace it. OEM's are like 20-25 bucks anywhere these days

As I said

Posted: **Fri Oct 17, 2014 11:54 am**

Yeh it's just a pain in a laptop.

Posted: **Fri Oct 17, 2014 12:26 pm**

chopper_nut wrote:
QUOTE (chopper_nut @ Oct 17 2014,12:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Yeh it's just a pain in a laptop.

One thing that got me is I hardly use the Laptop, simply a back up for other things, near brand new and the battery packs a sad , I guess it is one off the downfalls with this type off PC .

On reason I really brought one was as simple thinking , well if I have to go back to that horrible place called Hospital I could tinker away with ANGs ... this is were the twits at MS did not think , you cant annotate on a less than 17" screen thus making my idea null and void , really wonder who beta tested this area, would have been ideal.

Regard to the DVD drive, first thing I thought, It looked so much ARBUSTS plastic, treat it with tender care, I do like the Lappy but I see so many downfalls , I'd love to go back to four computers and a new Battery for Lappy .. in the new future maybe.

Posted: **Fri Oct 17, 2014 12:50 pm**

chopper_nut wrote:
QUOTE (chopper_nut @ Oct 17 2014,12:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Yeh it's just a pain in a laptop.

Yeah I won't argue that one, lappys are a pain in the cushions to work on...

NZFF

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