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commercial dvd's are not working
Okay - I have a NEC 3550 dl cd/dvd RW. I've had it for a few months now
and it's been working perfectly. Then a few weeks ago it stopped recognizing commercial movies. I would put a movie in and no program including explorer would recognize there was a disc in the drive. Then randomly (I did make a few changes to my startup and added a couple of programs, and of did a virus cleanup) it started reading them again. I didn't notice exactly what I did that made the change because I wasn't watching a lot of commercial movies at the time. Now I'm trying again - and it's doing it again. Let me restate. The drive will recognize ANY other kind of media - just not commercial dvd's. I've done a ton of research on this - and I am plain just stuck. I've run a rootkit search on my system, and the "AlphaDisc" uninstall (it said it was never installed). Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks! |
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commercial dvd's are not working
Your PC probably came with either WinDVD or PowerDVD installed. I would
find the manual that came with it and research how to reinstall an individual application... ie one of the above. -- Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Client - Printing & Imaging www.coribright.com/Windows wrote in message oups.com... Okay - I have a NEC 3550 dl cd/dvd RW. I've had it for a few months now and it's been working perfectly. Then a few weeks ago it stopped recognizing commercial movies. I would put a movie in and no program including explorer would recognize there was a disc in the drive. Then randomly (I did make a few changes to my startup and added a couple of programs, and of did a virus cleanup) it started reading them again. I didn't notice exactly what I did that made the change because I wasn't watching a lot of commercial movies at the time. Now I'm trying again - and it's doing it again. Let me restate. The drive will recognize ANY other kind of media - just not commercial dvd's. I've done a ton of research on this - and I am plain just stuck. I've run a rootkit search on my system, and the "AlphaDisc" uninstall (it said it was never installed). Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks! |
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commercial dvd's are not working
This doesn't seem to be a software problem of that sort. As I stated in
my previous post - NONE of my programs - including Explorer - recognize that there is a disc in my drive whenever I place a commercial DVD in there. (Also I built my PC and I didn't install either of those programs). Cari (MS-MVP) wrote: Your PC probably came with either WinDVD or PowerDVD installed. I would find the manual that came with it and research how to reinstall an individual application... ie one of the above. -- Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Client - Printing & Imaging www.coribright.com/Windows wrote in message oups.com... Okay - I have a NEC 3550 dl cd/dvd RW. I've had it for a few months now and it's been working perfectly. Then a few weeks ago it stopped recognizing commercial movies. I would put a movie in and no program including explorer would recognize there was a disc in the drive. Then randomly (I did make a few changes to my startup and added a couple of programs, and of did a virus cleanup) it started reading them again. I didn't notice exactly what I did that made the change because I wasn't watching a lot of commercial movies at the time. Now I'm trying again - and it's doing it again. Let me restate. The drive will recognize ANY other kind of media - just not commercial dvd's. I've done a ton of research on this - and I am plain just stuck. I've run a rootkit search on my system, and the "AlphaDisc" uninstall (it said it was never installed). Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks! |
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commercial dvd's are not working
Which DVD decoding software did you use then? Perhaps the nVidia Decoding
package? -- Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Client - Printing & Imaging www.coribright.com/Windows wrote in message oups.com... This doesn't seem to be a software problem of that sort. As I stated in my previous post - NONE of my programs - including Explorer - recognize that there is a disc in my drive whenever I place a commercial DVD in there. (Also I built my PC and I didn't install either of those programs). Cari (MS-MVP) wrote: Your PC probably came with either WinDVD or PowerDVD installed. I would find the manual that came with it and research how to reinstall an individual application... ie one of the above. -- Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Client - Printing & Imaging www.coribright.com/Windows wrote in message oups.com... Okay - I have a NEC 3550 dl cd/dvd RW. I've had it for a few months now and it's been working perfectly. Then a few weeks ago it stopped recognizing commercial movies. I would put a movie in and no program including explorer would recognize there was a disc in the drive. Then randomly (I did make a few changes to my startup and added a couple of programs, and of did a virus cleanup) it started reading them again. I didn't notice exactly what I did that made the change because I wasn't watching a lot of commercial movies at the time. Now I'm trying again - and it's doing it again. Let me restate. The drive will recognize ANY other kind of media - just not commercial dvd's. I've done a ton of research on this - and I am plain just stuck. I've run a rootkit search on my system, and the "AlphaDisc" uninstall (it said it was never installed). Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks! |
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commercial dvd's are not working
What DVD decoding software did you have installed then? XP does not include
any DVD decoding software. PowerDVD and WinDVD are the most popular but there are also many others. -- Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging http://www.coribright.com/windows wrote in message oups.com... This doesn't seem to be a software problem of that sort. As I stated in my previous post - NONE of my programs - including Explorer - recognize that there is a disc in my drive whenever I place a commercial DVD in there. (Also I built my PC and I didn't install either of those programs). Cari (MS-MVP) wrote: Your PC probably came with either WinDVD or PowerDVD installed. I would find the manual that came with it and research how to reinstall an individual application... ie one of the above. -- Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Client - Printing & Imaging www.coribright.com/Windows wrote in message oups.com... Okay - I have a NEC 3550 dl cd/dvd RW. I've had it for a few months now and it's been working perfectly. Then a few weeks ago it stopped recognizing commercial movies. I would put a movie in and no program including explorer would recognize there was a disc in the drive. Then randomly (I did make a few changes to my startup and added a couple of programs, and of did a virus cleanup) it started reading them again. I didn't notice exactly what I did that made the change because I wasn't watching a lot of commercial movies at the time. Now I'm trying again - and it's doing it again. Let me restate. The drive will recognize ANY other kind of media - just not commercial dvd's. I've done a ton of research on this - and I am plain just stuck. I've run a rootkit search on my system, and the "AlphaDisc" uninstall (it said it was never installed). Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks! |
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