Approximately two weeks ago I installed the Lite-On DVDRW SOHW-1673S, along with the Lite-On DVD SOHD-16P9S in my computer system (P4, 2.4Ghz, 2 GB DDR Ram, etc...). Everything worked great until tonight. I put a blank CD-R in my drive to make a music CD and the autoplay detected the blank media and I opened nero and made a disc. Wanting to make another disc, I closed all my applications when the first process was done and inserted a new blank CD-R. However, the drive starts to spin, but then stops.
I tried 5 other CD-Rs, from two different packages, and none were detected. I put an audio CD in the DVD-RW drive and that wasn't detected either. Media player said the drive was empty. When I placed that in the DVD-ROM drive, it was detected and played in my media player.
At this point, through the device manager I uninstalled the drive and restarted the computer, letting it redetect the drive (including another restart to finish the install). The drive still didn't spin. At this point I visited the Lite-On website and updated the firmware to the Feb. 2005 version (JS02). After the necessary restarts, the drive still does not spin when any disc is put in the drive.
However, it reads movies burnt on DVD+Rs and reads DVDs fine.
What steps should I follow next?
I tried 5 other CD-Rs, from two different packages, and none were detected. I put an audio CD in the DVD-RW drive and that wasn't detected either. Media player said the drive was empty. When I placed that in the DVD-ROM drive, it was detected and played in my media player.
At this point, through the device manager I uninstalled the drive and restarted the computer, letting it redetect the drive (including another restart to finish the install). The drive still didn't spin. At this point I visited the Lite-On website and updated the firmware to the Feb. 2005 version (JS02). After the necessary restarts, the drive still does not spin when any disc is put in the drive.
However, it reads movies burnt on DVD+Rs and reads DVDs fine.
What steps should I follow next?
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