Help with DVD-RW drive please!?!

[orkdaorc]

Man this is so weird. This drive has been working perfect for almost a year now. I tried using MAGICiso to burn a disc and the disc failed. Now it wont read ANY cds or dvds.... help me please! (it is still detecting the pelxtor dvd + - r/rw dl drive.)

 

[Modder]

maybe the drivers or you could buy a new one.

 

[orkdaorc]

heh buying a new one is a little too soon it just happened =P. ive re-installed the drivers 2 times to no avail. Any other suggestions?

 

[CrossCech]

firmware update ... but do this at your own risk. Maybe uninstalling MagicISO if you just recently installed and tried it.

 

[orkdaorc]

as stated before it has nothing to do with drivers or firmware. i have updated both. any other suggestions?

 

[mighty_chick]

have u burnt alot of DVD's? because its hard on the laser and after a while all dvd burners break and u have to buy new ones, ur luckier than me, i burnt 2 cd-r's with my $200.00 drive and then it broke but i burnt them 1st month and then the 5th month so it wasnt covered under warrenty anymore

 

[CrossCech]

sorry orkdaorc ... didnt see anywhere in the earlier posts about you updating the firmware of the dvd-rw drive. Drivers I did see ... but not firmware ... which happens to be a completely different thing than drivers. But since you're sure they have nothing to do with drivers or firmware ... then sounds to me you paid too much for a dvd-rw that has since gone belly-up on you. There's plenty of choices now for decent dvd-rw's in the $45-$60 range.

Another thought would be to rollback to an older firmware version or driver version.

 

[lurkswithin]

Do this and it should clear up your problems.

Run regedit and navigate to registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\
Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}.
Highlight it and in the right pane,
find the Upperfilters and Lowerfilters values.
Highlight each one in turn, right click and delete them.
Close regedit and restart the computer.