Windows 7: DVD drive freezes my computer

Hey, I recently install windows 7 RC and when I tried to put in the cd to install some sound drivers my computer just froze. explorer.exe just stops responding whenever I put any disc in the drive. If I open the drive to take the disc out it instantly unfreezes and it's completely fine! HELP! I have tried reinstalling drivers and several other things and I'm at a loss.

Hi twinkyman90, and welcome to Sevenforums.

Im thinking your problem might be caused by either a badly scratched/damaged cd or a malfunctioning cd/dvd drive.
Does this happen when you put in only that one cd, or does this happen with any cd you put in the drive?

Welcome to SevenForums, twinkyman90.

This might be a long shot, but make sure the cables are securely connected to the drive. I had this problem before and it turns out the IDE cable (sounds so old now) was a bit loose. After I re-fastened it, the drive worked fine again.

If your cables are securely fastened, it may mean your DVD drive is faulty.

Thanks for the quick reply guys! It's not just the one disk, I tried several, and I don't think it could be the drive because I have XP and 7 installed and it works fine in XP.

My computer does the same exact thing.

The dvd drive works in xp, but will not read any disc and will freeze the computer in Win 7.

It may have started after doing the windows updates, but not sure.

I have a samsung dvd writer, ide internal.

Try to disable Autoplay...

Just type Autoplay on search and uncheck the box...

thanks for the reply.

Unfortunately turning off autoplay did not help

Do you have nero installed?

Also , you can look for a firmware update for your drive...

Check and make sure your transfer mode is set to DMA

You can also try changing the drive to Primary.

Nero is not installed
Firmware is latest
transfer mode is DMA
Drive is set to primary

Now the drive works perfectly in XP (dual boot)

the other day I uninstalled the dvd driver, and then scanned for new hardware, which reinstalled the driver. After this the dvd drive worked, after reboot it did not work again.

Today i just uninstalled the driver again, reinstalled, and the drive worked.
Rebooted and the drive is still working. hmmm