Guys,
I've got a Sony BDU-X10S drive installed in my Win7 Home machine and recently had issues with it recognizing DVDs. It simply doesn't know they're there when I put it in. The light flashes some, the drive spins and clicks like it's trying to recognize it, but then gives up. This happens to commercial and burned DVDs, movie discs and data discs.
Funny thing is that it recognizes Blu-ray discs and CDs. It's just the DVDs that fail. Do DVD's use a separate laser that may have failed?
I've tried blowing it out with canned air with no effect. I'm not afraid to open it up to manually clean it up if that's what it takes, but wanted to see if there are other steps I should try first.
I've got a Sony BDU-X10S drive installed in my Win7 Home machine and recently had issues with it recognizing DVDs. It simply doesn't know they're there when I put it in. The light flashes some, the drive spins and clicks like it's trying to recognize it, but then gives up. This happens to commercial and burned DVDs, movie discs and data discs.
Funny thing is that it recognizes Blu-ray discs and CDs. It's just the DVDs that fail. Do DVD's use a separate laser that may have failed?
I've tried blowing it out with canned air with no effect. I'm not afraid to open it up to manually clean it up if that's what it takes, but wanted to see if there are other steps I should try first.