did your DVD drive stopped reading DVD's all of a sudden but reading cd's normally here is the solution? recently my sony DVD writer AW-Q170A stopped reading DVD's which it burned though same DVD's worked and was able to read in different computers i was really baffled why 
DVD writer was not able to read the DVD which was written by itself and another weird thing is my DVD burner was reading DVD-ROMS and other Movie DVD's but was not reading DVD's burned by itself and other computers?
When i googled for the solution i was amazed to see that i am not alone and there are tons of people with the same issue each one of them discussing possible solution but none of them seems to work so after 5 days of frustration i was able to figure it out what was the problem see below things i tried
first of all when i googled i came to know below are some of the situations that might cause this issue
--> Few said laser is dead or dirty lens and suggest to clean the lens
--> Some said its the problem with upper and lower filter in the system so editing registry might solve the issue
--> Some said windows updates might cause this kind of issues
--> and many said its due to service pack 3 problem
--> and very few were talking about frimware updates.
First i thought it was the problem with some windows update so i formatted my system and installed a fresh copy of XP with service pack3, but issue remained the same next i thought this might be due to service pack3 and formatted the system again and installed with a fresh copy of windows with service pack2 but the issue remained the same then i thought it might be the actual problem with dvd burner itself, so as the last try i tried to update the frimware i googled for sony dvd drive frimware updates i got the frimware for my dvd burner in their site www.sony-optiarc.us i found the frimware updates for my dvd burner model downloaded it prayed before running and restarted the system atlast my DVD writer was normal again reading dvds normally.
thanks for the guys on the web who hinted me about this, and between if anyone of you reading this facing the same problem and want to upgrade the frimware be warned not update the frimware if you are not the professional because incorrect version of frimware update might permanently damage your DVD burner making it worthless.
DVD writer was not able to read the DVD which was written by itself and another weird thing is my DVD burner was reading DVD-ROMS and other Movie DVD's but was not reading DVD's burned by itself and other computers?When i googled for the solution i was amazed to see that i am not alone and there are tons of people with the same issue each one of them discussing possible solution but none of them seems to work so after 5 days of frustration i was able to figure it out what was the problem see below things i tried
first of all when i googled i came to know below are some of the situations that might cause this issue
--> Few said laser is dead or dirty lens and suggest to clean the lens
--> Some said its the problem with upper and lower filter in the system so editing registry might solve the issue
--> Some said windows updates might cause this kind of issues
--> and many said its due to service pack 3 problem
--> and very few were talking about frimware updates.
First i thought it was the problem with some windows update so i formatted my system and installed a fresh copy of XP with service pack3, but issue remained the same next i thought this might be due to service pack3 and formatted the system again and installed with a fresh copy of windows with service pack2 but the issue remained the same then i thought it might be the actual problem with dvd burner itself, so as the last try i tried to update the frimware i googled for sony dvd drive frimware updates i got the frimware for my dvd burner in their site www.sony-optiarc.us i found the frimware updates for my dvd burner model downloaded it prayed before running and restarted the system atlast my DVD writer was normal again reading dvds normally.
thanks for the guys on the web who hinted me about this, and between if anyone of you reading this facing the same problem and want to upgrade the frimware be warned not update the frimware if you are not the professional because incorrect version of frimware update might permanently damage your DVD burner making it worthless.
2 comments:
I have a Sony DVD writer AW-Q170A and I was facing a similar problem too - it was reading CDs, but not DVDs. After reading the above, I, too, flashed my DVD writer with the latest firmware from www.sony-optiarc.us, and it worked!
Thank you, Manjunath!
I faced the same problem n updated the firmwire but could not solve this problem.......wht is the reson?
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