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TMACDaddy

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Serious Phillips Dvd Drive Problem!
« on: January 31, 2004, 06:21:00 PM »
K, I have a question, I have a Phillips DVD Drive and as of late it's been giving me DRE's on all my DVD+R games when like 2 weeks ago they were playing perfectly on the Phillips drive, I was wondering if updating my BIOS would fix it, or if it won't what the problem could be and if there's is a way I can fix it without buying a new DVD Drive!!  The main problem is it doesn't read my Verbatim DVD+R media, it did before but not now, it reads regular games just fine, PLEASE HELP!!!
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TMACDaddy

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« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2004, 09:47:00 PM »
Please Help!!!
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ChrisF

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« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2004, 10:09:00 PM »
Bios won't make any difference.  Xbox DVD drives are quirky bastards and there have been quite a few complaints with deteriorating performance - particularly with non-Xbox media.  You could try cleaning it.  You could try tweaking it.  Maybe see if there are other media brands that still work.  No easy good answer for you.
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TMACDaddy

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« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2004, 10:23:00 AM »
Man that sucks are you sure!!
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ChrisF

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« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2004, 01:54:00 PM »
QUOTE (TMACDaddy @ Feb 1 2004, 07:47 PM)
Man that sucks are you sure!!

I don't post unless I am very sure as to the answer (confidence >95%).  In the case of this particular question - 95% is conservative.  There is nothing easy that can be done unless you can find a different type of compatible media (and depending upon the size of your collection - that may lead to enough problems to make swapping/tweaking the drive more appropriate).

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Chancer

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« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2004, 02:02:00 PM »
With use the lens on the laser in the drive begins to deteriorate(a kind of ageing effect) once this starts happen the drives ability to read certain media starts to fail. You may be lucky in cleaning may improve matters but usually the problem will get worse the more the drive is used.
ChrisF is 100 percent right in that the final solution is not going to be the easy way and may turn out not to be cheap. If the cleaning and tweaks  do no good you need a new drive.

This post has been edited by Chancer: Feb 1 2004, 10:03 PM
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