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September 16th, 2008, 01:09 PM
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| Not a dude.  Joined: Dec 10th, 2005 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Finland Posts: 972
Car: 1990 Volvo 740 Rep Power: 13  |  The next thing to go wrong with my new computer the DVD-drive. Just after I got my screen from a month long repair my dvd-driver stop reading discs. The only one it regocnized was Assasins Creed which was the last one I used until I had stop using my computer for said repair. Any tricks to find out what really is wrong before I have to take back to the store?
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September 16th, 2008, 01:21 PM
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Car: 1985 Jeep CJ7, 1997 Ford F150 Rep Power: 50   | DVD drives aren't really all that repairable. Is it IDE or SATA? If my DVD drive quits, its time for me to spend 25 bucks and get a new one.
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September 16th, 2008, 01:28 PM
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| Squirrel Mincer  Joined: Feb 17th, 2006 Last Online: 08:33 AM Location: Market Harborough, UK Age: 18 Posts: 3,479
Car: '77 Land Rover Series III LFS Status:  Rep Power: 53   | Uninstall and reinstall it for a start, it's unlikely that it's broken completely. Is it just a DVD reader or a writer too. If it's a writer what software do you use? My DVD writer won't read my C&C3 disc, but my ROM drive below it reads it no problems. That has something to do with Windows Explorer and my Roxio Drag-To-Disc.
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September 16th, 2008, 01:32 PM
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Rep Power: 22 | DVD drives are really cheap these days, maybe just get a new one.
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September 16th, 2008, 01:36 PM
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| Not a dude. Joined: Dec 10th, 2005 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Finland Posts: 972
Car: 1990 Volvo 740 Rep Power: 13 | How do reinstall a DVD-drive? I just found out that it reads a simpson dvd but wont play it.
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September 16th, 2008, 01:36 PM
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Car: 1985 Jeep CJ7, 1997 Ford F150 Rep Power: 50 | Sounds like it went south. How much are DVD drives in Finland?
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September 16th, 2008, 01:56 PM
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| Not a dude. Joined: Dec 10th, 2005 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Finland Posts: 972
Car: 1990 Volvo 740 Rep Power: 13 | 30 euros this costs so about 40 dollorsch. Not that I couldnt buy I knew one, its just frustrating and its still could get it repaired for free at the store which is time consuming.
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September 16th, 2008, 05:17 PM
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| Squirrel Mincer Joined: Feb 17th, 2006 Last Online: 08:33 AM Location: Market Harborough, UK Age: 18 Posts: 3,479
Car: '77 Land Rover Series III LFS Status: Rep Power: 53 | To reinstall it, go into device manager, find the DVD drive, right click > uninstall then click 'scan for new hardware changes'. If it was a bad driver this should fix it. DVD vidoes could just be down to codecs or software. Like WMP11 won't play any DVD on my PC, but PowerDVD does with no problems.
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September 18th, 2008, 01:24 PM
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| Not a dude. Joined: Dec 10th, 2005 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Finland Posts: 972
Car: 1990 Volvo 740 Rep Power: 13 | Well turns out that Samsung has done a mistake all DVD-drivers of this type break in a month and they are recalling them all and I will get my a new one next week. Case closed. 
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