Lite-On 1633S not responding!

[aereogramme]

Hello

First of all, I downloaded Nero InfoTool and I couldn't get it working. It wouldn't save and it kept giving me a "must shut down" type of error in which it needs to send into to Microsoft. So if anyone knows how else i can get a good log to add on to this post to provide more information. Please let me know.

Now, for the main problem. I have been an owner of a Lite-On 1633S DVDRW burner for a while now, and while I didn't have many problems, the problems I had were easily fixed by people like yourselves and others. This problem just started today, I have been recently try to encode a DVD which was on my hard drive. It wasn't encoding right so I tried re-ripping with DVDDecrypter. So I try to rip the DVD again and my DVD drive wouldn't read it.

What would happen is that I would stick in the DVD and it would make a small sound, kind of like a low tone beep. It wouldn't be long, or even loud for that matter. It would occur every few seconds until I tried to ciew the contents of the DVD and then it would lock up for about 10 seconds and then show that it had no contents on it.

So I tried a normal CD and it didn't work either. Gave me the same errors as before.

I also upgraded to the newest firmware too and that didn't help.

As I said, I have been a Lite-On owner for over a year and it's a great product.

So if anyone can help me, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks

--Colin

[aereogramme]

anyone?

[louthewiz]

It sounds like the laser is crapping out ,I have 2 lite on dvd burners and one of them had the same problem it would burn dvds and cds but not read cds or dvds at all ,so since the price had dropped so much I just went to newegg.com and bought another refurb for 30 bucks and all is well, as for the old unit I contacted customer service and they said it would cost 50 bucks to fix it so that's why I purchased a new one ,and the old drive lasted me about 1 1/2 years. Lou

[aereogramme]

thanks man
i really appreciate the response!
sucks though that i might need to replace my burner.

[Bodyslide]

Try one of the CD/DVD cleaners on it. Sometimes they will work....