DVD agro

[chukrst]

Forgive me if you've heard this before. I have an LG drd8160B DVD-ROM which,until recently played DVDs fine. I never had occasion to play a DVD-ROM (data)until I brought one home from the UK(I am in Canada). It would not recognise it at all. I also brought a PAL DVD which played fine.Once or twice. Since then it no longer olays ANY dvds-movies or data. CD's (data,audio,VCD) all play no problem. Device manager recognizes it as a dvd-rom,when I go to properties it sez its "working properly" but of course it does not. Is it toast? Any ideas?
Running XP Pro,AMD 1000 Athlon,512 RAM blah blah blah
Thanx

[NooNoo]

Welcome to Windrivers Chukrst
there is a firmware update here for it (http://www.lge.com/products/mobile/mobil/sidemenu.do?action=read&group_code=CTG1000503&list_code=PRD_SW&seq=3814&page=1&target=prread&categoryId=CTG1000500&modelCategoryId=CTG1000503&parentId=CTG1000439) But it sounds like there is a media imcompatibility. What format is the data dvd, -r +r, -rw +rw?

I don't see a list of supported media types for this drive on the lg site.... will keep digging.

[chukrst]

Welcome to Windrivers Chukrst
there is a firmware update here for it (http://www.lge.com/products/mobile/mobil/sidemenu.do?action=read&group_code=CTG1000503&list_code=PRD_SW&seq=3814&page=1&target=prread&categoryId=CTG1000500&modelCategoryId=CTG1000503&parentId=CTG1000439) But it sounds like there is a media imcompatibility. What format is the data dvd, -r +r, -rw +rw?

I don't see a list of supported media types for this drive on the lg site.... will keep digging.

If nothing else,It does play DVD-ROM. Or it should. The UK CD was PAL so I'm surprised that even played. It was a documentary on Studio One in Jamaica. I'm surprised that played because in retrospect it shouldn't have but I overheard a guy in a Computer store sat(erroneously as it turns out) that computers can't tel the dif between PAL and NTSC. The other DVDs I played were all NTSC. I saw the firmware patch but haven't dealt with it yet cuz I am relectat o pull cables and set IDE as iI believe it reccomends you do. The UK data dvd was in a magazine and I don't know what format it was . The data DVD my pal burned was DVD-ROM

[NooNoo]

The data DVD my pal burned was DVD-ROM
Thats what I meant in my previous post... your pal burned it and used a particular type of media -r/+r/+rw/-rw that would probably cause it not to recognise if your dvdrom can cope with say -r and your pal burned it using +r

As for the ntsc/pal thing, most computers can cope with it...the region is an issue, but there are ways around that. www.dvdrhelp.com will explain in detail about various aspects of dvdmanship

[chukrst]

It turns out there are two optical readers inside the drive. Since it plays no DVDs(no pal,no ntsc) and no DVD media I have to deduce the player is history DVD wise. Thanx though