DVD player on my PC won't read disks.

Norman-B

I bought a Pioneer DVD writer and swopped it with my CD drive in my PC. Now neither drive will read and play DVD's. I lost the sound and I did a system restore and that solved the sound problem. I would be grateful for any advice offered.


ps, I'm a novice at this lark.

albertross_2

have you installed any software , nero etc, or have you just bought a bare drive?

You may be able to use these in the meantime, but you can get Nero for a few quid.

http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/dvdcdburning.shtml

Norman-B

Many thanks for your very prompt reply!
The drive did not come with any software. I purchased a copy of Nero some weeks ago for £3 off the web. I have tried both Nero and Windows Media player and both won't play the DVD's.

albertross_2

Which version of Nero?

Toxteth_OGrady

Go into Nero Toolkit, select Nero Info Tool. When it opens click on the ASPI tab and see what the aspi status is.

:cool:

TOG

danio_2

Norman-B wrote:

I bought a Pioneer DVD writer and swopped it with my CD drive in my PC. Now neither drive will read and play DVD's. I lost the sound and I did a system restore and that solved the sound problem. I would be grateful for any advice offered.


ps, I'm a novice at this lark.

do you have 2 drives in your pc now?

and if so did you make sure that one of them was set to "Master" and the other one set to "Slave"

Nex0

Norman-B wrote:

I bought a Pioneer DVD writer and swopped it with my CD drive in my PC. Now neither drive will read and play DVD's. I lost the sound and I did a system restore and that solved the sound problem. I would be grateful for any advice offered.


ps, I'm a novice at this lark.

On the back of your cd drive and writer there are 3 settings for master, slave and cable select.

Have a look on ur old cd drive and see what its set for and then take a look at the jumper on the pioneer and make sure its the same.

Norman-B

albertross wrote:

Which version of Nero?

The title is Nero Suite.

Norman-B

Toxteth_OGrady wrote:

Go into Nero Toolkit, select Nero Info Tool. When it opens click on the ASPI tab and see what the aspi status is.

:cool:

TOG

ASPI is not installed.

Thank you.

Toxteth_OGrady

That'll be the problem then. I'll just go find the link you'll need to fix it. brb.

:cool:

TOG

Toxteth_OGrady

Get the fix here.

:cool:

TOG