dvd movies not recognized

[tejal]

hi ppl
im using a packard bell i media 5094, with win xp home and my dvd-rom drive will not read dvd movies
ive tried dvd data disk and these wrk fine, its just the movies that wont wrk, ive tried 3 different 1's and none of them wrk i keep gettin the message that there is no dvd in the drive, after about 2 minutes of it spining around
im not quite sure wat 2 do, and ive got rid of syware by using adaware n spybot, so im pretty sure thats not it

[NooNoo]

Welcome to Windrivers tejal

What are you using to playback the movies?

[tejal]

i tried usin powerdvd, windows media player n even realplayer (a friend sed she uses it) but none of them wrk

[NooNoo]

Have you cleaned the dvd disks?
Have you got a lens cleaner for your dvd drive?

[corturbra]

Have you ever been able to play movies?

If you start PowerDVD first then choose play will it work?

Is it just the Autorun that isn't working?

Have you checked the region settings of the DVD?

Is the DVD set for the right region to match the DVD?

Do you get any error messages that might help us diagnose?

[tejal]

i hav cleaned the dvds n used a dvd lens cleaner but neither of them have wrked

ive been able 2 play movies uptil a week ago

ive tried to do it manually, but it doesnt wrk either

there were no error messages, the dvd would just spin in the drive n when i tried 2 play it i would get the message that there was no disk in drive q - my dvd drive

i have no idea wat region settings are, so i don't know

[NooNoo]

Between the last time you successfully played a dvd and noticed it was not playing any movies did you install, update, uninstall or remove any hardware, software or do any windows updates?

about dvd regions (http://hometheaterinfo.com/dvd3.htm)

Are these burned dvds or are they original dvds?

[tejal]

thx ppl but i managed 2 sort it

[NooNoo]

tejal, what did you do to sort it? Others may have a similar problem.