Hello forums!
I hope that you would be so kind as to give me some advice on fixing my DVD-RW drive. I'll try to be as descriptive as possible.
Symptoms: Will not recognize blank DVDs. Will not switch to DMA mode and stays only in PIO.
Clues: Will read discs with data already on them. DVD Movies play very slowly. (Though most likely from the PIO mode) The drive used to be Ultra-DMA but one day when my movies started playing slowly I checked and it (suddenly) became PIO. At one point I got it to go back to DMA but it went right back to PIO.
Specs: The drives jumpers are currently set to Master. It is (now) using the middle/lower connector of the IDE cable.
My computer is SATA compatible, but I am only using IDE. My computer lists 3 Primary IDE channels and 3 Secondary IDE channels, with the disc drive occupying the Master slot of the last Secondary IDE Channel.
HL-DT-ST DVDRRW GWA-4164B seems to be the name/brand/etc of the drive.
eMachines W3400
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ ~2000 Mhz
Windows XP SP2
1 Gig of RAM
ATI Radeon XPress 200
Motherboard is an MSI-ATI.
*EDIT* Forgot to mention I have Phoenix AWARD Bios. Also, I have uninstalled, reinstalled, and searched for new drivers; TO no avail.
I'll post any other information you need.
P.S. I looked through a few pages of threads but I didn't see anything too similar. I apologize if this thread has been asked a million times.
