Bluray Fail on HD3200 HTPC setup

[LxMxFxD4]

So I just built this sytem (for extremely cheap, mind you):

ECS A780GM mobo w/HD3200 integrated ATI graphics
X2 5200 2.7ghz dual core stock cooling
2x2GB PC8000 Ram
HDMI cable to Toshiba REGZA 42" LCD
LITE-ON 6X blu-ray/DVD ROM
160GB old HD I had lying around
Windows XP SP3 fully updated
PowerDVD 7.3 Fully updated (free with Lite on drive)

So I have it all setup with the lastest Catalyst Drivers (9.1), but blu-ray wont play. In fact, windows wont even see the drive as anything but "CD rom drive" in windows explorer. It plays and sees contents of DVDs and CDs just fine.

I ran Cyberlink "BD Advisor" and everything passed EXCEPT... drum roll... my Graphics driver. I have the very latest Graphics driver (1/29/2009) from ATI.

By far the strangest thing I've ever seen but.. I've gone through all the settings and as far as I can tell, everything SHOULD WORK. Maybe I'm missing a check box somewhere.

Help!

 

[LxMxFxD4]

UPDATE:

I installed the very old (march 2008) Catalyst driver 8.3 and it passes the Blu Ray Advisor test.

However, I still can't get anything to play bluray, nor get windows explorer to read a bluray disk (I have Bluray Iron Man disk from netflix in the drive).

 

[yh125d]

Try a firmware update on your BD drive

 

[LxMxFxD4]

What sucks is I can't find a driver NOR a firmware for this drive anywhere.

Not on liteon website period.

 

[LxMxFxD4]

Well after further research it appears to be the drive. There is no windows driver on liteon's website, and no firmware. In fact, they don't even have a product page for it! I've owned several Lite-on products in the past and had great success with them, but this is absurd. Since it was an OEM drive it didn't come with a disk either.

NOthing to do at this point but RMA back to newegg on monday.

LOL @ no driver PERIOD.

 

[yh125d]

I haven't owned a drive that needed a driver installed. My BD drive did need a firmware update though, but that's because of the nature of the evolving format

 

[LxMxFxD4]

Originally posted by: yh125d
I haven't owned a drive that needed a driver installed. My BD drive did need a firmware update though, but that's because of the nature of the evolving format

In windows XP?

Its so strange because it plays dvds and cds so its obviously getting power just fine.. it just seems like a software problem.. either winxp or a driver.. or firmware. But, theres no where I can find firmware updates.