I hope someone can help me with this.
For christmas I got the game X3 on DVD-ROM so I tried installing it but the drive does not recognise any DVD discs anymore.
I'm using a Pioneer DVD-116 drive, I updated the firmware to 1.22 which is the latest version. Windows 2k tells me it has DVD-116 drivers installed, the DVD GUI tool from the pioneer website works fine, it tells me it's region 2, 40x speed and that 1.22 firmware is flashed. No matter what I try the drive sees and plays any audio or data CD I try but every DVD I try the drive has no disc according to windows.
I use AsusDVD, I always used to use that to watch DVD's until I got my PS2 to watch DVD's on my TV. Does anyone know how I can fix this so I can try this game out ?
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Try the drive in another machine if you can. If it works you have a software problem, if not you have a faulty DVD-ROM. It does sound like the drive is faulty though.
Really late reply cause I got fed up with it and played Star wars galaxies the past months.
Anyhow, today I got the FFXI expansion and it's a DvD :(
I tried my drive in another machine and it works, I put it back in mine and if I put in a DVD nothing happens and when I double click my DVD drive Icon it gives a window telling me to insert a disc in the drive with a cancel option, I tried various DVD's, movies, concert recordings, freebie DVD's from magazines and again X3 reunion but it keeps saying insert a disc then I insert a CD-ROM and my system immediately pops up a setup window for that disc.
I double checked all cables, which are fine or it wouldn't play CD's, everything says the drive is a DVD drive, I updated the drivers but windows wouldn't update because it's the same version allready from months ago and now I don't know what to do anymore.
Can someone please shed some light on what is going on here ?
Thanks.
Anyhow, today I got the FFXI expansion and it's a DvD :(
I tried my drive in another machine and it works, I put it back in mine and if I put in a DVD nothing happens and when I double click my DVD drive Icon it gives a window telling me to insert a disc in the drive with a cancel option, I tried various DVD's, movies, concert recordings, freebie DVD's from magazines and again X3 reunion but it keeps saying insert a disc then I insert a CD-ROM and my system immediately pops up a setup window for that disc.
I double checked all cables, which are fine or it wouldn't play CD's, everything says the drive is a DVD drive, I updated the drivers but windows wouldn't update because it's the same version allready from months ago and now I don't know what to do anymore.
Can someone please shed some light on what is going on here ?
Thanks.
Update:
I removed the drivers and reïnstalled them, the standard cd-rom driver was installed, I installed the Pioneer cd-rom driver. I think this is part of the problem, it only lists CD-ROM when it goes to detect new hardware.
Also I noticed that in the computer management/control configuration screen there is a folder thingy called removable storage, inside that are media groups and the only thing listed there is cd-rom. I think this might be related but I'm not sure. The folder structure is like this:
Removable storage
Mediagroups
-Available
CD-ROM
-Import
CD-ROM
-Not recognised
CD-ROM
Right below that is Physical locations which looks like this:
Physical locations
RICOH MP6200S SCSI CdRom Device (SCSI CD Writer)
Media (clicking here shows the CD in this drive)
Stations (clicking here shows device 0, removable, loaded disc)
PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-116 (Disc icon has a red icon with a cross)
Media (Clicking here shows nothing)
Stations (another red icon and status "Non available, empty")
PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-116 (Disc icon has a red icon with a cross)
Media (Clicking here shows nothing)
Stations (another red icon and status "Non available, empty")
PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-116 (Disc icon looks normal, like the Ricoh)
Media (Clicking here shows nothing)
Stations (Reports the Pioneer DVD-ROM, no disc loaded)
I'm afraid to change anything else, maybe this information tells someone here what's wrong on my system.
I removed the drivers and reïnstalled them, the standard cd-rom driver was installed, I installed the Pioneer cd-rom driver. I think this is part of the problem, it only lists CD-ROM when it goes to detect new hardware.
Also I noticed that in the computer management/control configuration screen there is a folder thingy called removable storage, inside that are media groups and the only thing listed there is cd-rom. I think this might be related but I'm not sure. The folder structure is like this:
Removable storage
Mediagroups
-Available
CD-ROM
-Import
CD-ROM
-Not recognised
CD-ROM
Right below that is Physical locations which looks like this:
Physical locations
RICOH MP6200S SCSI CdRom Device (SCSI CD Writer)
Media (clicking here shows the CD in this drive)
Stations (clicking here shows device 0, removable, loaded disc)
PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-116 (Disc icon has a red icon with a cross)
Media (Clicking here shows nothing)
Stations (another red icon and status "Non available, empty")
PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-116 (Disc icon has a red icon with a cross)
Media (Clicking here shows nothing)
Stations (another red icon and status "Non available, empty")
PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-116 (Disc icon looks normal, like the Ricoh)
Media (Clicking here shows nothing)
Stations (Reports the Pioneer DVD-ROM, no disc loaded)
I'm afraid to change anything else, maybe this information tells someone here what's wrong on my system.
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