[Counterfe1t]

im having a bit of trouble with my new lite on dvd-rw/cdrw combo it seems it doesnt want to play dvds even worse i tried poking around for a while and now it doesnt detect at all and everytime i restart it detects as a new drive with a different model number.
model number is SOHW-802S/ SOHW-812S/DRW-2S81

[Dom]

Did you try unmounting all your image drives and uninstalling your physical drives and restarting?

[Counterfe1t]

ive unsistalled physically the optical drives but not the virtual drives this occured after uninstalling Soldiers:heroes of WWII and running starforce uninstaller after a reboot it seems it would not play and dvds so i attempted to restart again but this time it gave me a funny model number then after another restart it gave me another then it changed back to normal then after trying to play a second dvd it occrus again.

[Matth]

I think you have a bad data cable - if the signalling for the drive NAME is corrupted, there's no chance of getting good data.

Make sure you have the trasfer mode set to AUTO, or I believe the correct mode is UDMA 2 / ATA33.

Try the drive as Master, nothing else on the same data cable, and if using a 40 wire cable, try an 80, or just replace the cable.

[Counterfe1t]

thanks i will try that but im receiving a new motherboard and processor do you think this will solve the problem along with a reformat?

[Counterfe1t]

Update: i have not switched the data cables yet but for some reason it recognizes the drive when i boot one time then when i reboot it detects a different drive


the actual drive name should be LITE-ON SOHW-812S not WOLW-852W and it recognizes as a cd drive not a dvd-rw