Whilst trying to install a game, I found that my dvd-rom wouldn’t read the disk. It’s been working fine for a year up to this point so, I thought it was just the disk. I try a few more, both dvdrom and cdrom. Nothing works. So, I pull the Dvd-rom from my wifes computer and slap in mine to see if that’ll work. Same results with being unable to read both dvd and cd-rom’s. Now with each drive back in their respective computers, neither one works! 🙁
I’ve deleted instances in the device manager with a restart and updated the firmware in both computers with no results and two useless Dvd-roms. I’m just curious if maybe the IDE cable is shot (unlikely) or if the fault in my dvd-rom is causing a general breakdown somewhere else that’s causing this problem.
My dvd-rom is a Samsung 616e, my wifes’ is a LG.
Any ideas and or help is much appreciated! 🙂
