My drive will play Program CD's and CD-R's but not DVD's DVD+RW's or cd-rw's it used to but it won't any more is there a driver update for it. Or another solution to the problem. I have 6 months of the warranty left but am trying to avoid ahving to send it in as I would loose it for 3 to 4 weeks. Not good seeing I work on it every day all day long.

Jason


Support Information:
Device Type: CD / DVD
Manufacturer: Optiarc
Model: DVD RW AD-5530A
Interface: Other
Operating System: Windows Vista
Age of Device: < 6 months old
FCCID:

Type of drive: dvd-r/cd-rw (dvd burner, dvd reader, &amp; cd burner combo)
Location: internal
What recording software are you using?: Other (Other: Cyberlink DVD suite)

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Optical drives never require anything other than the native support that's built-in to the os. ie: the Vista OS has support for this drive automatically.

But you need dvd decoding software (like WinDVD or PowerDVD) installed in order for the drive to read/play dvd movie disks.

why would it have stopped playing some and not others? And seeing that the CyberLink DVD suite is installed on the system should it play DVD's

Jason

Yes it should. It sounds like you have a flaky drive.

I tried winDVD with no change and I'm gonna try Power DVD next if that doesn't work then it looks like I'm gonna have to send this thing in and have the drive replaced. Just sucks that I won't have it for three to 4 weeks. I'm wondering if I just buy a new drive my self and install it if I'd be better off. I'm told these aren't that expensive.

Jason

cheaper to buy new than to repair. Drives are cheaper now than ever before.

Just Talked to Everex last night and this particular drive which I found out on my own is an OEM only model it's got a goofy face plate that is steped length wise and then the front most end has a dog leg in it. So basically if I tried to replace it myself the face plate on any new drive won't fit flush. Also found out that wonderful Everex doesn't sell this drive as a replacement part so if this ever happens again out of warranty I would have to send it in again and pay for it. This will be the last Item I ever get from Everex. I can only see sending this thing in unless other drives have that dog lrg in them and it's covered by the face plate. Which does come off.


Jason

Ok looking further into this I can get a newer Drive for about 64 bucks but the new one comes preset as the Master how do I tell if mine is set to master or slave. If I need to switch it to slave there is some other BS I need to go thru to get that done. All I need to do is replace the face plate to get mine to work. It appears all the drives have the dog leg in them.

Jason

d01Check the hard drive. If it uses Master/Slave, then set the optical drive to that format. If your hard drives are currently set to CS, then connect the optical drive the same way.

Mine just went bad after a windows vista update (garbage). I removed the updates and it worked. I installed the updates and back to crap again. Removed the updaes and back to working. I just need to figure out which update is causing the problem