DVD drives no longer able to play CD's

Hi,

Has anyone had this problem. I have a NEC 1100a dvd drive and a liteon
LTD163 drive. Both at one point were able to play cd's but no longer
can. I bought a new DVD drive and reinstalled my computer. My new dvd
drive is a HP is a 740b. It dosent play CD's either. Does anyone know
if theres a windows update or something which is causing problems?
Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Robert

Hi Prophet,

Thanks for the email. I uninstalled Alcohol and booted the system into
safemode and I was still unable to use the CD drive. I think it has to
do with a XP hotfix I'd imagine. I just can't seem to find any
documentation on any. Thanks for the help. If you had any other ideas
its much appricated.

Best Regards..


>TheProphet wrote:
> maybe you have installed some tools that could emulate drives like
> deamon tools,alcohol 120%,and make problems. Also try uninstalling
> drivers for that devices and also uninstall drivers for your ide
> controller,and the reinstall them back. Try that in safe mode.
>
> P.S. first try read cd's in safe mode, if thats ok, then some software
> is making problems for you
>