DVD drive broken or lack of power?

[jameswhite1979]

I have just built a new system and moved over a DVD drive to it. I never had any problems with this drive before. BIOS and windows find the drive with no problems at all. I can eject the drive from windows. However when I out a cd or dvd in it spins up reads a bit then stops then spins and reads a bit more. This is what it does for music CD's and DVD films tried with Media Player, Media Center and Power DVD. If I use a data dvd or CD. It does not auto run and takes ages to read and display the data. I new PC is a shuttle that has two HDD under the DVD drive and we all know these puppys get hot! the other think is that I have a ATI x800 XT PE that requires power supply. have take off the second HDD to reduce the power requirements. I am a bit stuck but I think it might be one of the following:

1. Drive is just broken
2. Drive has over heated and is now broken
3. Drive requires more power

Whats your thoughts?

Thanks J

 

[AristoV300]

I doubt it is a power issue, sounds to me like your drive is crapping out. Just to be certain you can't try it on another rig to see if you get the same results?

 

[FlyingPenguin]

Clean the lens, but it's likely dying.

 

[wisdomtooth]

Put that DVD drive back into the old machine if you still have it, and see if it works. If it works fine, the problem isn't the DVD drive but with your Shuttle.

HTH.

 

[Lemodular]

what drives do you have and how do you have them hooked up? master/slave etc. ...... double check your jumpers. Also try swapping out the ide cables.

but I would first pull the drive and put it in the old rig to make sure it's working.

 

[jameswhite1979]

Thanks guys. I do not have any old PC's but I am sure I can find one at work. It is on the second IDE channel set and Master and the only drive present I did try it as cable select but same results I think that it is on its way out. I am a little worried that it might be the temp of the shuttle case that caused this! Any idea what temp dvd can get fried at? I did not think that they would get effected by heat on a PC case but I might be wrong?

J

 

[Lemodular]

Make sure DMA is on for the drive