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My Acer travelmate 2000 stopped reading dvds but it reads cds, so I replaced it with a new one, but I have the same problem it still won't read dvds the busy light flashes for 30 seconds then stops. Its not reporting any errors any help would be gratefully received

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by benjamin1254

try vlc or try burning a cd image called geexbox. with vlc just insert the dvd and under file when you have it installed it will say play dvd. it should start the dvd no problem. if indeed it doesent in order to make sure its the drive itself and just not the operating system burn geexbox to a cd and insert the disk into your drive and reboot it will insert itself into your ram so the drive becomes avalable. Insert the disk (dvd) as soon as the menu pops up after it pops out the disk you just burned and it should start playing. if it doesent it is indeed the drive itself. if nothing shows up after u put the disk in go down to quit and it will shut down your pc. if the dvd did start just hit escape or m to get back to the menu and hit back tell you come back to where it says quit at the bottum of the screen. hit quit and your pc will shut down. start it back up and you will be in your windows OS again.

by marc

My dvd cd/rw stoped reading dvds but would read and write cds I changed the drive but still have the same problem. I just looked in device manager and the hdd and dvd are on the same location 0(0) I can not see were I can change anything in the bios also the primary channel reports a conflict input/output Range 03F6-03F6 used by motherboard resources in the resources tab. My system is a travelmate 2000 win xp pro 1gb ram intel celleron 2.6ghz

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