DVD Drive Faulty?

[Reginald]

Since I got my new PC about a month ago, twice now the DVD Drive has refused to register, despite still receiving power. When I press the "Eject" button, the tray goes out and straight back in again and I can hear the disk spinning.

Both times it has happened, I opened up the side of the case and made sure the wires were secure and it worked again.

However now that it has happened twice, I don't want it to happen again, any ideas? Is it the Drive or the cables?

 

[Barney Fife]

Try updating firmware. If its a SATA drive update your SATA-link control drive and chipset drivers. If DVD came with software suite install em.

Good Luck.

 

[Reginald]

How would I go about updating the SATA link?

 

[giant384]

so it doesnt show up in my computer correct? ive had this problem before and i fixed it by deleting a file in the registry. im at work right now but ill find it again and respond back here.

 

[[Matt]]

Try a different SATA cable and see if that does anything?

 

[Reginald]

Sorry to revive such an old thread, but it seemed to fix itself for a while when I updated the firmware but it now seems to have come back with a vengeance.

It shows up in Device Manager. And it shows up in My Computer until I click on the drive which causes Windows Explorer to crash. D: About 1 in 5 restarts will allow the drive to work normally but otherwise all it does is eject then go back in. If a disc is put in there, it sounds almost like it is reading the disc but then just goes quiet.

@giant384: I was wondering if you'd found the registry file yet?