DVD Drive broken?

NotAGolf

NotAGolf

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I just bought a new monitor, plugged it all in, fired up windows, inserted the install cd for the monitor. I went into my computer and my drive wasn't showing up. A drive shows up in there (G: DVD Drive), but this never did anything, I always used D: CD Drive, and this isn't here.

I went into device manager, and the only thing under the DVD/CD-ROM drives was something called:
OFAREV M38P2J0DM SCSI Cdrom device.
I've never noticed this before, not that I would have paid much attention, but it looks a bit odd.

So I restarted the computer, look in the BIOS, and the Primary IDE Device is set to:
@L%DT-ST DVDRAE GSA-4167B
Again this looks different but I couldn't tell you what it used to be.

Booted back into windows and this time there was another item in the device manager with a yellow ! next to it - @L%DT-ST DVDRAE GSA-4167B

In the device status section it said This device cannot start (code 10). I uninstalled it and it re-installed itself again and the yellow ! went away. So I opened the drive and put the cd in, as soon is started reading it though I got a BSOD with Machine Check Exception on it.

SO I shutdown again, checked all the cables inside because I have been playing with fans inside the case so may have knocked it out but all looks fine. Booted again and there's no drive showing in my computer or device manager :(

There's clearly power as the drive opens and spins. Just not recognised in windows (XP), also checked in linux and it looks to be screwed in there too, although I can't say for definite as I've never even used it before in linux.

Any ideas what's going on?

Thanks for any help.
 
Thanks Scooby.

Just tried it in the secondary IDE slot. Same funnny name in BIOS, Different name in the device manager though:
HD-DT%ST DVDRAE GSA-4167B

Still BSOD when I put in a DVD :(

Perhaps changing the driver? Not sure what to change it to as it normally does it automatically. Also, is it a driver issue if it's still showing a funny name in the bios? (Although it may have been showing funny all along and I didn't notice it)

Thanks again.
 
mattyfez said:
Try removing the drive via device manager, then reboot - hopefuly it will re-detect and install on next start-up.
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No luck. It re-detects but installs the same driver as last time by the looks of it with the weird name.

Worth a go at updating the firmware? I've looked on the LG website and there's anew firmware for it, no normal driver from what I can see though. This is worrying me a bit though, the description is:

"The drives must be original LG branded drives with the DVD Writer
model number GSA-4167B(no OEM units)."

On my receipt from 2005 (:eek:) from this very store(!) shows:
LG GSA-4167BAL 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-033-LG).

The OEM part is worrying me though as it on the LG site it says no OEM, and I have a couple of extra letters on the model number. Will this be ok?
 
Can't hurt can it? its already knacked!

Worst case youll have to scrounge a new one, or stump up £15 for a new drive.

Do you have another drive you can test to rule out any other issues?
 
Baaaa! :mad:

Tried running the firmware update but it says it can't find the target drive.

And no unfortunately I don't have another drive that I can steal.
 
Any other ideas?

The only thing that's holding me back from just buying a new drive is the fact that it seems to partially work, to me (although I don't know much!) it looks like somehow the driver's been screwed and so it's not setup properly, hence the funny name and the BSOD. When it searchers for new drivers it just picks up the same one.

If it is a dud, I was thinking of picking up a SATA srive instead. Does that just use a normal sata connection instead of the ide port, and the same power cable?
 
Not the same power cable. it'll use a SATA power connector. (smaller and black) It does use the same data cable as any other SATA drive though.
 
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