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I've just had a lot of bad days with people who have crappy problems. Like a gum wrapper *inside* the drive.
First off, try using a regionized dvd, a burned dvd, and then some other dvd that you *know* won't have a region setting. You'll have to figure out which on is which on your own. If there's an on and off problem shown here, your region might be buggered to russia or something, and you'll have to change it.
If not.
Okay, go to the my computer icon, right click to the properties option, go to the hardware tab, open up the device manager, and make sure that you are in Devices by type view.
Go to each option under DVD/cdrom drives, right click and go to scan for hardware changes. Go to properties, and then goto the drivers tab. (you can also change the region in this window, but for the love of god, don't if you don't need to.) Roll back or uninstall and reinstall the driver. If we are good, we are good. If not...
Well, now we need to rip open the case of your computer. (don't do this if you've never done it before, or you have warranty. A slight rub the wrong way on a circuit board will kill things, up to, and including your flesh. You have been warned.) We also need a friend with a computer. Okay, what we do is take the drive out of your computer, and put it into his. If it works, well, then you've got some sort of issues that I have no clue about. Try making the drive a master or slave, different from what it was, or just try changing the which power cable you are using, and swap out the data cable. Also try to reboot without the drive, just for the heck of it.
If it's still funky, and you've done this before, crack open the drive. Electrostatic shock warning applies here as well. Just take the case off, and it's a bit tricky, and it's different for each drive.
Basically, we are looking for that clear candy wrapper, and take this opportunity to blow some dust around. If you don't see a problem, blow some canned air gently over the optical head, and then put it back together. Don't touch the lens, 'cause that will do bad things.
First off, try using a regionized dvd, a burned dvd, and then some other dvd that you *know* won't have a region setting. You'll have to figure out which on is which on your own. If there's an on and off problem shown here, your region might be buggered to russia or something, and you'll have to change it.
If not.
Okay, go to the my computer icon, right click to the properties option, go to the hardware tab, open up the device manager, and make sure that you are in Devices by type view.
Go to each option under DVD/cdrom drives, right click and go to scan for hardware changes. Go to properties, and then goto the drivers tab. (you can also change the region in this window, but for the love of god, don't if you don't need to.) Roll back or uninstall and reinstall the driver. If we are good, we are good. If not...
Well, now we need to rip open the case of your computer. (don't do this if you've never done it before, or you have warranty. A slight rub the wrong way on a circuit board will kill things, up to, and including your flesh. You have been warned.) We also need a friend with a computer. Okay, what we do is take the drive out of your computer, and put it into his. If it works, well, then you've got some sort of issues that I have no clue about. Try making the drive a master or slave, different from what it was, or just try changing the which power cable you are using, and swap out the data cable. Also try to reboot without the drive, just for the heck of it.
If it's still funky, and you've done this before, crack open the drive. Electrostatic shock warning applies here as well. Just take the case off, and it's a bit tricky, and it's different for each drive.
Basically, we are looking for that clear candy wrapper, and take this opportunity to blow some dust around. If you don't see a problem, blow some canned air gently over the optical head, and then put it back together. Don't touch the lens, 'cause that will do bad things.
