Have you had any problems reading DVD's with your DVD-Rom?

[Beautiful Alone]

When theres a minor scratch on the DVDs that i rented, it could'nt play on my DVD-Rom. Are there any DVD's that your DVD-Rom can't read?

[ya_jai]

A lotttttttt especially rent ones. but I didn't mean cannot read at all just some part of it.

If you wanna rip from these rent DVD, you need to clean them pretty good and give a ripper software a time to read from the discs. I didn't suggest you to copy from rent dvds, it just an info if you should know. lol

[Beautiful Alone]

well..they all seem to play fine on my DVD player, it just that my DVD-Rom won't read it.

[ya_jai]

Might be a hardware problme then. Can your dvd-rom play any other DVDs which are not rent ones? You might try to clean your lazen lens in your dvd rom to see if it helps.

[kayfam]

Beautiful Alone,
If I were you I'd try running a lens cleaner in the drive or better yet get yourself a can of compressed air. Open up the front of the drive and give it a couple of quick blasts. Just don't turn the can upside down or you'll get a stream of water! More than likely you've got a particle of dust on the lens and this will get rid of it.

[Beautiful Alone]

Beautiful Alone,
If I were you I'd try running a lens cleaner in the drive or better yet get yourself a can of compressed air. Open up the front of the drive and give it a couple of quick blasts. Just don't turn the can upside down or you'll get a stream of water! More than likely you've got a particle of dust on the lens and this will get rid of it.

My DVD-rom is brand NEW! anyways, have you ever had problems reading minor scratch DVD's?

[kayfam]

Beautiful Alone,
I thought I recognized the name. I remember not to long ago a whole series of posts concerning that DVD-ROM that you just purchased and the fact you couldn't get it to work right. No offense but just because it's new doesn't mean something didn't settle into the drive during shipping. One of the biggest offenders is the styrofoam packing. I can't tell you the number of times I've had to pick it out of stuff I had shipped. It's funny how it can work its way inside a plastic wrapper, but it does. So if you at least give my suggestion a shot (no pun intended), you've nothing to lose and everything to gain. As for my DVD-ROM skipping on a lightly scratched disc, I haven't run across it yet, but it's a matter of degree and there is nothing to say that I won't come across a disc like that and have my player choke.