Help with Dvd Rom

[Hook]

Hi folkz

Using my Liteon dvd rom just lately has been a pain :bawling: , I have a DvD rom and a DvD Burner, which have been happily running side by side for ages and just lately the Rom has been playing up by making some weird noises but if I stick a CD in it playes ok?

Have anybody got any suggesetions on what I should do, I would rather keep that Rom just for watching DvDs.

One other thought is I might have accidently deleted the temp file completly when trying to find out the problem, how would I know if the Temp file is still there?

Hook :wavey:

[Mr Snatcher]

Hi Hook, Try giving a blast of canned air, other wise I would say its not worth the aggrevation to mess with it, when you can buy a new for $30. It just sounds to me that the laser is pretty weak.

[Jesterrace]

Yup, also if you want to watch DVDs, then the Lite-On is not the best choice. I would go with a Late model Pioneer or Samsung. Both are very quiet. I agree that when Lite-Ons are working properly that they are among the best for ripping but I don't much care for them in any other respect. Anyways as mentioned above you can pick up great DVD-ROM drives now for $30-$35 shipped from www.newegg.com (http://www.newegg.com) and they aren't that much more if you live in the UK.

[Neo]

Maybe try ripping the DVD onto your HD and watch it from there. So the DVD-ROM doesn't have to read the DVD for 2+ hours....

[Hook]

Thanks for the replys guys ..:)

I'm using DvD shrink and its burning to the Hard drive so I think it might be a dodgy DvD rom, am now going to buy a new one.

Cheers for the advice.

[duplicitous]

Have you tried upgrading the firmware, it made a major difference to my liteon drive. I actually thought it was done aas was going to replace it and just upgraded the firmware as a last resort. now the drive is behaving well again.

It would do no harm to clean it with the compressed air as mentioned earlier as well thouugh.

Try this page for all your liteon firmware needs

http://digi.rpc1.org/0page.php