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    DVD movies will not play on F3JP

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Kelldore, Aug 1, 2007.

  1. Kelldore

    Kelldore Notebook Enthusiast

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    So im perplexed ive had my F3JP since February, and now i notice that some DVD-R's and newer DVD movies will not play on it (they work just fine in a portable dvd player), most of my DVD collection works fine but some DVD's that i put in will spin up and spin down for at least a few mintues but never materialize in the drive icon as it shows it being empty nor will they autorun. Any ideas? suggestions? I dont have any virtual drive software installed either FYI.
     
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    Kelldore Notebook Enthusiast

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    I also tried disabling and re-enabling the DVD drive in device manager, still wont read certain DVD's. Anyone???
     
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  3. Patrick

    Patrick Formerly beat spamers with stiks

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    I believe it is a dirty drive. My Powerbook will only read some dvd's/cd's, while spitting out the others
     
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  4. Kelldore

    Kelldore Notebook Enthusiast

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    I tried blasting the drive with some compressed Air, the strange thing is that the DVD-R movies and some other DVD's work on my buddies old Dell Latitude D610 but they dont work in my DVD drive..really weird, i guess i can try and do a recovery off the partition and see if that will change anything but i dont want to spend time re-installing my crap, any other ideas before i try doing that?
     
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  5. AlexF

    AlexF Notebook Deity

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    Newer DVDs have copy protection which block PCs from reading them 100%.

    As far as DVD-R, it might be that you bought a bad batch of disks or you're burning them too fast. Laptop optical drives are much more sensitive to errors than desktop drives.

    I would suggest trying those disks in a desktop drive (on a desktop or in a USB enclosure) and see if it has any trouble reading it.
     
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    Metamorphical Good computer user

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    Have you ever done a clean install and Did your notebook come with Nero? If it did try uninstalling that. The inCD stuff that comes with Nero seems buggy, it cause my optical drive on my W7 to be unable to do anything but write to media.
     
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    Kelldore Notebook Enthusiast

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    Awesome ill uninstall nero, also i did a recovery of the C:\ partition so i didnt loose any date but still it wouldnt read some of my DVD's, funny, my season 4 of "24" DVD's works fine but season 5 of "24" refuses to be read, but i will uninstall nero and see if that helps. Also some of the burned DVD-R work fine in my buddy's old Dell latiitude 610 but dont work at all in my laptop...Meh, ill post once i get nero uninstalled.
     
    Kelldore, Aug 2, 2007
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