The newer Lite-on drives can be flaky. Try cleaning it. Try the drive alone in Master mode. Does this region free program modify the firmware? This may have messed something up with the drive's controller. Try reflashing the lastest version of the firmware from http://www.liteon-it.com.tw
--- In [email protected], "Hani Zureikat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all I have a DVD problem, pls help me, I surrender! > > I have > Fujitsu-siemens P4 Intel 1.7 GHz , Mother board Fujitsu-siemens D 1321 > (I don't have any INTEL accelerator) > Win XP SP2 > 256 RAM > Lite-on DVD 16X Secondary IDE (Slave/jumper) > LG Writer 52X Secondary IDE (Master/Jumper) > The DVD was working perfectly under SP2 and without a driver > installation from any CD, just windows driver . > > The symptoms: > The DVD can't read any DVD and almost cant read any CD. > When DVD is inserted the drive spins for a second then nothing happens > and error comes that there is no media and I should insert one. When > trying one of the solutions I mentioned here the drive takes two minutes > to read DVD and in the end same results happen. > The LG CD writer is Reading normally through all this. > > The Problem started: When I clicked on "Enable DMA" when asked by > "Region Free" Program . > > Solutions that failed: > > 1-Delleteing DVD & CD/WR in Device manager and restarting > 2-Delleting all IDE s in Devise manager and restarting > 3-Resetting BIOS > 4-deleted Registry entries for IDE and restarted (key : 002,003) > 5-Setting BIOS and IDE in Device manager to PIO > 6-Setting BIOS and IDE in Device manager to DMA if Available > 7-Setting BIOS to DMA2 > 8-Setting BIOS to UDMA 33 > 9-I tried PIO for DVD and DMA for CD writer > 10- I tried all modes for DVD with normal for CD writer and HD (Normal = > Auto detect) > 11-Uninstalling DVD player and using another player > 12-Windows media player and Real player and Jetaudio tested and not > working > 13-Original DVD tested, Region free copies tested, and both don't work > 14- DVD tested in safe mode and failed. > 15- Region free program uninstalled and tested then installed a newer > version one time and then reinstalled the old one > 16- I went to Microsoft help site and read all solution articles and all > Newsgroup of DMA problems. > > Thanks > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this site, please feel free to contact me directly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do not post personal issues directly to the group. To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for using A-1 Computer Tech Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
