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    DVD drive woes.

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by waxinspector, Oct 17, 2008.

  1. waxinspector

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    Long story short. New laptop couple months and I am just now discovering this problem. Gateway 173xfx Vista 64 bit. DVD drive will read dvds just fine but will not read cds. So far I have tried un-installing device driver and letting windows re-install. Hooking up external burner. CDs still not detected. Last night I went to play counter strike and I hear music playing. Sure enough I had a cd still in my drive from trying to troubleshoot this problem. Counter strike auto plays cds when they are in your drive. Odd right? cd will play when in cs but not detected at all in vista. Along with this and cds still not detected even with external burner leads me to believe that it is a software issue rather than hardware. Any insight appreciated.
     
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    Hep! sees beauty in everything

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    What do you mean "not seen at all by Vista"?
    As in, in my computer it does not show the CD? Have you tried multiple CDs? Are they MP3 CDs or regular audio CDs? Will it "see" games on CDs?
    What happens if you open up a media player (not WMP) like MPC or VLC, does that read the CD?
     
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    as is when I load the cd into the drive nothing happens. no auto-play. nothing shows up when i access the drive via my computer. tried multiple cds. mp3 and audio cds.
     
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    bump.. anyone?
     
    waxinspector, Oct 18, 2008
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