DVD-drive not working

2009-07-12 13:21:31

#1

Broodbeleg: Member; +34|6115|The Netherlands

9 months ago I bought a nice DVD-drive, the Samsung WriteMaster SH-S223F, and today it stopped "seeing" my DVDs I put into it. I was watching a movie and I paused that movie for a few hours. Then I pressed the play button again and gave me an error that said that there wasn't anything in the drive. So I checked windows explorer and indeed there was nothing in it. I tried multiple DVDs that had worked properly the last few days and he doesn't recognised them either. What can I do to make sure it has something to do with my drive so I can rma it? Or what can I do to make it possibly work again?

Cheers for any help.

Last edited by Broodbeleg (2009-07-12 13:22:01)

2009-07-12 13:23:51

#2

King_County_Downy: shitfaced; +2,791|6859|Seattle

Try uninstalling it under device manager maybe? It may be dead or the drivers may be screwed up.

Sober enough to know what I'm doing, drunk enough to really enjoy doing it

2009-07-12 13:34:34

#3

nibiru2012: Member; +10|5678

uninstall the device and reinstall ,it should pick it up and should reinstall the drivers

2009-07-12 13:37:16

#4

Monkey Spanker: Show it to the nice monkey.; +284|6514|England

How weird i had the same in my Windows 7 install go here to get the latest firmware
http://www.samsungodd.com/Eng/Firmware/ … amp;os_no=
should help then after installing new drivers follow KCD's advice

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2009-07-12 22:19:24

#5

Broodbeleg: Member; +34|6115|The Netherlands

jamiet757 wrote:
Quick question, have you rebooted? Sometimes drives do that, and a reboot fixes it.

Yep. Didn't help anything.

I'll try what you guys said in the afternoon, have to work right now.

2009-07-12 22:24:55

#6

jsnipy: ...; +3,277|6785|...

Broodbeleg wrote:
jamiet757 wrote:
Quick question, have you rebooted? Sometimes drives do that, and a reboot fixes it.
Yep. Didn't help anything.

I'll try what you guys said in the afternoon, have to work right now.

how does the bios classify it?

2009-07-12 22:29:36

#7

GR34: Member; +215|6807|ALBERTA> CANADA

put bologna in it that what i do to school computers

2009-07-13 10:18:20

#8

Broodbeleg: Member; +34|6115|The Netherlands

King_County_Downy wrote:
Try uninstalling it under device manager maybe? It may be dead or the drivers may be screwed up.

Tried, didn't help.

nibiru2012 wrote:
uninstall the device and reinstall ,it should pick it up and should reinstall the drivers

Tried, didn't help.

smuder201 wrote:
How weird i had the same in my Windows 7 install go here to get the latest firmware
http://www.samsungodd.com/Eng/Firmware/ … amp;os_no=
should help then after installing new drivers follow KCD's advice

Tried, didnt help.

GR34 wrote:
put bologna in it that what i do to school computers

Didn't try, won't help. ;D

jsnipy wrote:
Broodbeleg wrote:
jamiet757 wrote:
Quick question, have you rebooted? Sometimes drives do that, and a reboot fixes it.
Yep. Didn't help anything.

I'll try what you guys said in the afternoon, have to work right now.
how does the bios classify it?

Bios recognised it as a connected device.

I put it into an other computer and changed the e-sata and power cable, that didn't help either. That's when I thought it was broken and I requested a rma.

2009-07-13 11:29:31

#9

Agent_Dung_Bomb: Member; +302|6998|Salt Lake City

Put a CD in the drive. If the drive functions fine with a CD, but not a DVD, then you definitely have drive failure. The lasers used to read a CD and DVD are different, so this makes a good test of overall drive functionality.

2009-07-14 08:29:52

#10

Broodbeleg: Member; +34|6115|The Netherlands

Broodbeleg wrote:
I put it into an other computer and changed the e-sata and power cable, that didn't help either. That's when I thought it was broken and I requested a rma.

The other pc is now broken. It says that an overclock has failed, but we never overclocked. Also, windows and bios just recognise 2 out of 4GB ram. That means that one of the 2 ram sticks is broken, and the one that is broken is behind my cpu-cooler, which I don't know how to take it off. So my brother, who's the owner of that pc, is very pleased with me testing my broken DVD-player on his pc.

And the RMA department want me to sent the DVD-player in his original box, which they never gave me since they build the pc for me. So I propably wont get any RMA either.

Last edited by Broodbeleg (2009-07-14 12:26:47)

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