DVD's Won't Play Anymore

[Britt]

I'm having a problem playing DVD's now. They used to play great. Now my DVD
rom drive sounds like its trying to read it but not finding anything. After a
minute or so it just stops trying. When I try to play it in PowerDVD, it says
there is no DVD in the drive (same in Windows Media Player). I tried
upgrading my decoder (I use PowerDVD) to the current version, but it didn't
help in reading the DVD's. I'd appreciate any help.

[decoder]

"Britt" > wrote in message
...
> I'm having a problem playing DVD's now. They used to play great. Now my
> DVD
> rom drive sounds like its trying to read it but not finding anything.
> After a
> minute or so it just stops trying. When I try to play it in PowerDVD, it
> says
> there is no DVD in the drive (same in Windows Media Player). I tried
> upgrading my decoder (I use PowerDVD) to the current version, but it
> didn't
> help in reading the DVD's. I'd appreciate any help.

Any error messages?
Have you made any recent changes? Installations? Uninstalls etc?
Have you checked if the specific DVD-ROM is listed correctly
in device manager?
Have you ruled out DRM?
Is it only DVD-Video that has problems? Or all DVD's? (software? Data?)
Is your drive region locked? - The "usual" configuration is that
initially the first five plays of a DVD will not be confined to a
"region", after the fifth time, the drive will lock. Though you should
get an indication? There is software - "dvd genie", that can unlock
a region locked drive.