G'Day All,
I have just compteted building a new system and have discovered my BD drive (Samsung SH-B083L 8x BD-ROM) reads Blu-Ray disks fine and DVD's fine but will not recognize CD's. Wondering if anyone has any suggestions that I might try??
I have read through the forums and this is what I have tried so far:
Used the regedit to get rid of lowerfilters and there were no upperfilters to remove.
Used the Fixit from Windows support with no luck.
The BD drive recognises boot disk from both Windows XP disk and Windows 2000 Professional. I am assuming one of these would be a CD and according to other forum posts this helps determine if the CD laser is malfunctioning.
Unistalled the drive and reinstalled the drive several times with no luck.
Installed another CD/DVD drive on the same system and it recognizes the same CDs that the BD drive would not.
Swapped cables and power cables with other drive.
From the forums I have read it sounds like a driver problem of some sort so I thought I would ask for help here.
Cheers,
Rut
My Computer
At a glance
Windows 7 64 bitIntel Core i7 930Patriot Extreme Performance Viper II Sector 7...HIS Radeon HD 5870 iCooler V 1GB GDDR5 PCI-E
OS
Windows 7 64 bit
CPU
Intel Core i7 930
Motherboard
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R
Memory
Patriot Extreme Performance Viper II Sector 7 Series DDR3 6G
Graphics Card(s)
HIS Radeon HD 5870 iCooler V 1GB GDDR5 PCI-E
Sound Card
Onboard
Monitor(s) Displays
Samsung SyncMaster 245T 24"
Screen Resolution
1920 x 1080
Hard Drives
Intel X-25M 80 Gb
Western Digital 640GB Caviar Black
Welcome to Seven Forums rut. Good troubleshooting and info you gave us. The "trick" of trying a bootable CD is to see if the hardware (the optical drive itself) is at fault. The fact that the drive recognized and booted from the CD tends to point towards a software issue.
Do you have a dedicated program to play your media? What do the DVD's that work open in? You can try a clean boot to see if the CDs are now recognized. Then enable programs a few at a time until you find what is interfering with the CD playback. The 1st suspect would be a media player and/or codecs.
Try the clean boot and let us know if this allows you to read CDs. As an aside, try a music CD as well, see if it is a data CD problem only.
A Guy
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The drive will play audio cds in normal boot but not the data cds.
Just to confirm I have been using the original World of Warcraft CD as the data CD to check if the drive is working.
I have installed Cyberlink PowerDVD and the Cyberlink Blu-Ray Disk Suite that came with the BD Drive. Other than that this was a clean install and I only have windows media player.
I am wondering if i can just uninstall some of the programs and troubleshoot that way as it seems easier to me or will that not work. I don't know if I fully understand the steps to booting from a CD and then enabling programs one at a time. Is there aby good references that would guide me through it you could recommend?
Thanks in advance
Rut
My Computer
At a glance
Windows 7 64 bitIntel Core i7 930Patriot Extreme Performance Viper II Sector 7...HIS Radeon HD 5870 iCooler V 1GB GDDR5 PCI-E
OS
Windows 7 64 bit
CPU
Intel Core i7 930
Motherboard
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R
Memory
Patriot Extreme Performance Viper II Sector 7 Series DDR3 6G
Graphics Card(s)
HIS Radeon HD 5870 iCooler V 1GB GDDR5 PCI-E
Sound Card
Onboard
Monitor(s) Displays
Samsung SyncMaster 245T 24"
Screen Resolution
1920 x 1080
Hard Drives
Intel X-25M 80 Gb
Western Digital 640GB Caviar Black
I'm sorry, I had this link in my post, see the words "clean boot" in blue? in any case here is the link, see if it works in a clean boot. If so then it is indeed software related. You can certainly try your method as well.
