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Originally Posted by Takao
So, you have checked the cables and they are good.
Have you updated the firmware of the DVD-ROM?
Also, is the DVD-ROM on it's own cable or is it hooked up as a slave to the harddrive?
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These problems will not cause it to read only one disk format. Internally the drive uses different ways to drive the laser for DVD's and CD's. So part of the circuitry has died.
Thankfully, DVD's are getting cheaper. The format wars over blu-ray and HD-DVD coming to an end have helped in this. A computer based Blu-ray reader / DVD burner dropped from $300 to $150 only 2 weeks after the format war ended, and I think this is helping to drop the DVD drive prices.
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