WARNING!! BOYCOTT SAMSUNG DVD-ROMS!!!! LASTABILTY 0

[baker]

windows xp thinks my dvd rom is a cd rom. I tried installing it 6 or 7 times and have had no luck. DOes anybody know how to solve my problem. I need it online soon as i am missing loads of dvd films.

BAker

[Greg12]

yeah Windows XP thinks my DVD-ROM is a CD-ROM to but DVD's play fine on it.


It changes when u put a DVD in, it will say it's a DVD-ROM drive.

This is actually a good feaute cause some older games will try to spin up the CD, but see a DVD rom and not do neything.

2 of my games didn't work until i got XP n it treated my drive as a CD-ROM

[baker]

well my dvd drive will no longer read the dvds at all if it trys it quickly gives up and windows asks me to insert a disk. My drive is a samsung and neither microsoft or samsung will reply to me.

I urgently need my drive to rip my dvds!!

SOMEBODY MUST HAVE HAD THE SAME PROBLEM!! PLEASE HELP ME, I AM DESPERATE.

Baker

[baker]

SOMEBODY MUST HAVE HAD THE SAME PROBLEM!! PLEASE HELP ME, I AM DESPERATE.

Baker

[mh2360]

Sounds obvious but do you have a DVD player installed? (PowerDVD, WinDVD etc..?)

[baker]

yes but that is really not my problem, it simply wont read any dvds anymore. If you put a dvd in your cd drive watch what happens. The drivegoes mad in a vain attempt to read the disc. This is what is happening to me!!!

BAker

[Greg12]

try to re-install the drive by removing it from device manager n rebooting

[baker]

I tired re-installing it, i did that millions of times. Nothing i do seems to work. Thanks for the help!!

SOMEONE MUST HAVE A SOLUTION!

Baker

[TOMMO]

Have you installed the chipset controllers for your motherboard when you have installed WINXP. If you have not or they are not the correct ones then your IDE controllers might not be set up correctly.

If you have installed the correct drivers, make sure that you have enabled the drive as DMA.

If you have done all of these, then it might be purely the case that the drive is defective or dirty. get a laser cleaning cd to clean the laser or replace the drive.

[Robbins1940]

Could be a bad drive.

David

[TheInformer]

baker:

Is the DVD drive set up as a master or slave device? If that is set the wrong way, the drive will not function correctly.

Open your machine up and look at the cable connected to your DVD drive. Is there any other disk drive (hard drive, CDROM, etc) connected to the same cable? If there is, then there's a good chance the drive should be set up as a slave drive. If the DVD drive is the only drive on that cable, then you should set it up as a master drive.

On the back of the DVD drive, right beside the cable connecter, is a jumper to tell the DVD drive what it should be, master or slave. Set this correctly (after reading my previous paragraph) and restart your system.

[baker]

thanks for all your help, i understand how the master/slave switch works (i have installed a new hd,cd-rw and capcard). I will now c if it is just a lose connection, but how is it still reading cds if it is broke?

PLease continue with your sudjestions,
Baker

[baker]

None of this works!!! I have even opened up the computer and have replacd everything, still not a budge!! PLease help me, no dvd, no svcd!!! Its driving me crazy.

I have no cash!!

Baker

[w00kiee]

2 things.. first.. may be an ASPI layer issue.. this problem with win2k/xp causes them to have probs with dvdroms

free aspi driver here -> ftp://ftp.nero.com/wnaspi32.dll
(its free)

put it in your system32 folder

reboot



second thing is - it is possible for drive to fail as dvd and work as cdrom because dvds are read (internally) different with the laser than cdroms.. anyways.. i highly suspect its your aspi layer.. it happens with xp.. try that driver

[baker]

well it seems that this is a common thing with samsung drives. apparently their dvd lasers only last about a year than die out!!


I will now try that driver, thanks!!

BAker

[mh2360]

OMG! i have a Samsung CD re-writer, 9 months old, i'll start saving now....

[baker]

<<BUMP!>>

[nfl2k2]

I had trouble with Samsung tv's a few years ago. It worked for about a year and then it just stopped working.

[Innershield]

I have a Samsung VCR that went bad after 3 months, and I have 2 Samsung DVD players that went bad after about 6 months. I get this catalog in the mail every other month or so and they sell a lot of refurbished items. I noticed that many of them were Samsung products. I have a Samsung monitor though and it hasn't went bad (yet).

[wellmashed]

I have a Samsung VCR that went bad after 3 months, and I have 2 Samsung DVD players that went bad after about 6 months. I get this catalog in the mail every other month or so and they sell a lot of refurbished items. I noticed that many of them were Samsung products. I have a Samsung monitor though and it hasn't went bad (yet).

PHOOOOFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!! *Homer's voice* "Doh!!!!"

[liquid217]

well if you have a friend that has a pc, try the drive in their system. otherwise, id say its a bad drive

[bigmicka]

if its brand new, just return it. Get a product that you know works....

and what i have realised is nothing is really that urgent. so stop the bump hell.

mic

[VincentVegaFFF]

I have a Samsung dvd rom. It doesn't play dvd's very well. I think I've only had 1 dvd that worked fine. I hate Samsung.

[baker]

bump!!!!!!!

[pinoy2201]

well i have a SamSung DVD Drive and i have it for over a year and it styll werk fine i even istalled WinXP and win 2000 to try it out and it werked fine no problem at all i get great speeds when ripping and no complaints.....here are my suggestions get new drivers,update your firmware,and install win 2000/XP compatible aspi layer.....Baker tell me the model i have a SamSung SD-12B and its werkin fine ( but i love my Pioneer better )

[nfl2k2]

Here is my DVD drive--

Manufacturer: SAMSUNG
Product: DVD-ROM SD-612
Revision: 0.4
Can read CD-R Discs: Yes
Can read CD-RW Discs: Yes
Can read DVD Discs: Yes
Can read MultiSession Discs: Yes
Can read Digital Audio Discs: Yes
Digital Audio Data is accurate: Yes
Can read CD-Text: Yes

it's a 12x, I got it one year ago at pricewatch for 70$, used it for about 50 rips and played hundreds of movies with no problems.