DVD-ROM Drive Not Working

[PC WizKid]

My dvd-rom drive doesn't always rev-up when I put a game dvd-rom like Colin McRae Rally 2005 or Race Driver 2. I do have a antivirus, firewall and a spyware program and do scans about once a week and keep them regluarly updated. However if I restore my PC to factory settings the DVD-ROM drive will work with any dvd-rom,but after about one day it stops working again. Also I clean it once a week.

My PC specs:

Emachines 620 Desktop PC
2.7Ghz P4
80GB Hard-drive
DVD-ROM Drive
CD-RW Drive
3.5 Floppy Drive
Geforce 5200FX 64MB Card
56K Modem
On-board Sound
6 USB Ports

The model of my dvd-rom drive: emachines make: HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8162B and the year is 2003, also I have no new drivers nor filmware. Please help me.

[scouse]

Can you start the drive manualy by right clicking on the drive ? In other words is it just the auto play that is not working?

[PC WizKid]

No I cannot.

[mswaroopk]

Hi,

I am having a similar issue but with slight difference. Mine is a DELL Laptop (Inspiron 6400). I have only one DVD/RW but under my computer it shows as two drives
Drive1 One as "DVD-RW Drive (D: )". My CD is recognized in this drive but DVD someimes is recognized (same Game DVD later will not be recognized or starts automatically). This is _NEC DVD+-RW ND-6650A. The same DVD used to work perfectly earlier and still works in other (friends) DVD drive.
Drive2 Other as "DVD Drive(F: )". I can never use this dirve. DE 1351Z BCN002E SCSI CdRom Device. I tried disabling this frive or uninstaling thi drive. But when I rebooting this comes back.

Please let me know what needs to be done.
Regards

[septia]

try to reinstal the dvd rom...
plug off the cable and plug in again the cable...
hope can fix the problems...

or u can use dvd cleaner...

[Ant]

I'm guessing it's probably getting a bit long in the tooth. Try to look at it in the trillions of revolutions and billions of head movements.

Nothing lasts forever mate, console yourself with the fact that a replacement shouldn't be too expensive.

[txcowgirl]

I hope someone can hellllllp. I reformat a laptop we got from a friend, have no cd's for it. I put windows xp and everything is working fine on it, except the sound. I tried the realtek audio codec, but half way got a rundll message on streamci? I went to control panel, system, hardware and have yellow question marks on the following.

mass storage controller
modem device on high definition audio bus
network controller
sm bus controller
video controller
video controller (VGA Compatible)

i put a dvd in the drive put it says ,
window media player cannot play the dvd because a compatible dvd decoder is not installed on your computer

can anyone give me a hand? Pleassssssssseeeeeeeee

[PeckerWood]

Post the manufacturer name and model number of your Laptop.

[PeckerWood]

Have you tried the GordianKnot codec pack?

http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=77391