Hey guys, I'm trying to figure if my dvd-rom is toast.
Symtoms:
Reads cd/dvd fine after a restart (or fresh boot).
But after you read one and stick another in, the rom just retains all information about the initial disk that was originally inserted (and read). Simply remove the disk after reading some media, explorer confirms that there is indeed no disk in the drive. However putting a new one in is still makes it thing that it has the contents of the original disk that it first read.
Now I'm convinced that it is not a cable issue, because the drive is on the same line as my cdrw drive which is working fine.
Also, sometimes after enough disks the dvd-rom sometimes reports that there is only a 0kb file and it's named with a bunch of null characters (??????????).
The strange thing is that a reboot let's it read a disk again... so it doesn't entirely seem to be the fault of the dvd-rom.
I have recently installed a new motherboard KX400-8 (and the O.S).
I'm running WinXP pro (all updates installed)
The dvd-rom is liteon ltd 163 (unsure on the firmware, but I can't find any downloadable firmware on the net).
All comments and shared insight are welcome =).
Thanks in advance,
Mike.
Symtoms:
Reads cd/dvd fine after a restart (or fresh boot).
But after you read one and stick another in, the rom just retains all information about the initial disk that was originally inserted (and read). Simply remove the disk after reading some media, explorer confirms that there is indeed no disk in the drive. However putting a new one in is still makes it thing that it has the contents of the original disk that it first read.
Now I'm convinced that it is not a cable issue, because the drive is on the same line as my cdrw drive which is working fine.
Also, sometimes after enough disks the dvd-rom sometimes reports that there is only a 0kb file and it's named with a bunch of null characters (??????????).
The strange thing is that a reboot let's it read a disk again... so it doesn't entirely seem to be the fault of the dvd-rom.
I have recently installed a new motherboard KX400-8 (and the O.S).
I'm running WinXP pro (all updates installed)
The dvd-rom is liteon ltd 163 (unsure on the firmware, but I can't find any downloadable firmware on the net).
All comments and shared insight are welcome =).
Thanks in advance,
Mike.
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