cendyne 105

**pol0** · 04-23-2003,06:07 PM

i just formatted my computer and now this drive wont play dvd's. anyone know whats wrong? i just updated the aspi too and it still doesnt see dvds. i just put in a burned dvd and it doesnt see it either. whats wrong?!?!?!?!?!

**Law** · 04-23-2003,06:21 PM

Alot of times when you put in a different drive then what origianlly came with the computer and you reformat the computer, the computer looks at what you have and determins if this is the original. When there is somthing new in there the computer will not allow you to do anything untill the originally stuff is back in place. Do you still have the other drive? If so pop it back in there and it should allow you to do what you want then turn off the computer and place the new drive back in. All should work then.

Law

**pol0** · 04-23-2003,06:29 PM

hmmm. the original computer? i formatted with this drive in it. so i guess this would be the original right now. the drive reads and burns cds fine, but doesn't see dvds at all. this is starting to piss me off.

**Law** · 04-23-2003,06:51 PM

Try installing a dvd player software on the computer

Law

**pol0** · 04-23-2003,07:55 PM

i do have one, i have powerdvd. when i try to play a movie, it says theres no disc in there.

**Law** · 04-23-2003,08:39 PM

What type off media or movie are you trying to load?

Law

**pol0** · 04-23-2003,08:56 PM

any movie, shanghai noon, sleepy hollow, monster's inc. i think the drive is dead now. I just switched the drive to my other computer, couldn't read any dvd's either.

**dr_kevo** · 04-24-2003,12:53 PM

Does your system even see it as a cd-rom?

That is a better first place to start than watching a movie.
Maybe you put the cable on backwards!

**pol0** · 04-26-2003,02:54 AM

It see's it as a dvd-rom and the cable is on the correct way.

**RAISTLIN** · 04-30-2003,10:35 AM

Check your drive's jumper settings (Master, Slave, Cable Select.) If it is sharing the cable with another drive, put them both on cable select, but give it Master position on the cable (last drive on the cable). The Pioneer's can be finicky if sharing the channel with other drives. CS was the only way to get it to work right with my newer LG DVD-ROM on the same chain. It worked fine with my Lite-On DVD-ROM when they were set directly as Master and Slave, but got monkeyed up when I swapped out my DVD-ROM drive.

Yes, I have a DVD-ROM AND a DVD-Burner, as well as a CD Burner. One Universal reader, and a seperate burner specifically for each media--also two hard drives, which brings me to another point: It may also do better to have it on the second IDE channel if you are using an add-in adaptor. I had weird things happen when it was on my first channel (Promise ATA100 PCI card) and I tried to update the firmware on my A04--putting it on the second channel fixed it though.

Good Luck!

Raist

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