my DVD Rom drive wont read any disc's

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  1. danny2004

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    hello, just wondering if anyone can help me, my DVD Rom drive just stopped reading any type of disc, it wont read anything CD, DVD, PC Game nothing. Can anyone help?

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    danny2004
     
    danny2004, Dec 18, 2004
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    check your device manager for a yellow exclamation mark
     
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    cheers for the reply and there is not yellow mark, it says that the drive is working as if it should be and its just not reading anything i put into it :(
    thanks for your help anyways
     
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    have you tried cleaning the laser lens
     
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    well ive got one of those cds that cleans it, but i wont read the disc so it doesnt work. I dont know how to get to the lens, im scared of damaging the computer, if i take it apart. Is it easy to do?
     
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    if you used a cd cleaner disk & no yellow exclamation mark in device manager, try removing drive from device manager, restart windows to let it install driver & see what happens. possible drive just gave up the ghost. how old is drive & if still under warranty
     
    ddp, Dec 18, 2004
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  7. chriseng

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    chriseng, Dec 28, 2004
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  8. guinnyss

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    i tried that last method and it would not allow me to delete it.
     
    guinnyss, Jan 19, 2005
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  9. guinnyss

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    okay i did delete it but the problem still didn't change.
     
    guinnyss, Jan 19, 2005
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  10. chriseng

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    My drive dissapeared again after a few days on a boot up. I had to restore my system to a previous date and now it seems stable. If you want to do that put in "system restore" in the "help and support" search and follow the wizard.
    Not a great solution but it seems to work. I also uninstalled a program for pulling pics from a digital camera that I had recently installed because I was getting an error message that indicated I had a corrupt driver and that was the last program I installed.
    good luck...
     
    chriseng, Feb 9, 2005
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  11. guinnyss

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    thanks for that but the DVD-Rom was no good and Sony came by my house and replace it, now this one reads at 16x.
     
    guinnyss, Feb 9, 2005
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