WTF? Star Wars doesn't like my DVD-ROM...

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  • leech
    Super MURCer
    • Oct 1999
    • 1918
    #1

    WTF? Star Wars doesn't like my DVD-ROM...

    So I'm sitting here and decide to watch the Bonus features of the Star Wars DVD. Only problem is, that when I pop it into my DVD-ROM (Pioneer Slot load, DVD-303F SCSI) it acts like it's going to load, I can hear it spinning, but then it just spits it back out! It doesn't even pop up the Auto-play thing or anything, just spits it back out. Then I tried Episode 4; A New Hope, and it did the same thing. Then I even tried just putting it in after loading up PowerDVD and pressing play while it was trying to access it... well, all it did was say "Unsupported Format in drive D:" and pushed the DVD out again.

    I know the DVD-ROM is working, because I'm watching Long Kiss Goodnight on it right now.

    Any ideas?

    Leech
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    • RC Agent
      MURCer
      • Oct 2001
      • 422
      #2
      No ideas to help you out, sorry. I just wanted to say:
      Dude! You needed to get the SW OT Pioneer DVD Special Edition from GL!
      RC Agent
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        • leech
          Super MURCer
          • Oct 1999
          • 1918
          #3
          On further inspection, it doesn't look like there even is a 303F model, but that I have the 303S... well, either way, I have the 2.00 firmware, which is the newest one for this drive (I've had it quite a while.) Arrrggh.. I'd rather not have to buy another DVD-ROM drive...

          Leech
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          In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penises, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship.

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            • leech
              Super MURCer
              • Oct 1999
              • 1918
              #4
              Originally posted by RC Agent
              No ideas to help you out, sorry. I just wanted to say:
              Dude! You needed to get the SW OT Pioneer DVD Special Edition from GL!
              Are you saying I accidentally bought the SW OT Playstation 2 DVD Special Edition from GL? It played just fine on my brother's PS2.

              Leech
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              In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penises, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship.

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                • Jon P. Inghram
                  Super MURCer
                  • Oct 1999
                  • 3878
                  #5
                  Reboot and go into the BIOS, and then try the disk, I'd think that'd at least help narrow it down to not being a software issue. I can just see it that there's some special copy-protection code in the DVD spec that nobody used till now that causes PC DVD drives to spit the disk out... George would love something like that I'm sure.

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                    • leech
                      Super MURCer
                      • Oct 1999
                      • 1918
                      #6
                      Well, a friend of mine has almost the same DVD ROM, but his is the 305F (or S, I think Windows gives it the F designation). And it works in his. Doesn't spit it out. This might just be a sign that it's failing. I was even thinking perhaps it's because I have a region free DVD ROM as well.... Since I never did set the jumper on it. And it says I have 1 change left on the Region Selection... Lousy Star Wars... Similar to my old Laptop, Episode 1 wouldn't play on that worth a damn. Though that might just be because the proprietary player that has to be used with the DVD decoder card is really crappy....

                      Leech
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                      In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penises, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship.

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                        • leech
                          Super MURCer
                          • Oct 1999
                          • 1918
                          #7
                          Update on this, apparently NO dvd's will go in now... I watched Hellboy when I first bought it without problems. So I popped open the drive, and there was a crapload of dust... then of course the last bits of compressed air were gone out of my can o' air. So I cleaned out the dust bunnies best I could... The thing is, the drive reads CD's just fine. but as soon as I put in a DVD (I've tried several, and I know the ones I tried worked before) it spits them back out. I bought a lens cleaner for it, though I think it only cleans the CD Audio part or something (though it says it'll clean DVDs.... I had another cleaner, but I can't find it... it was a cool Maxwell one that actually played a video thing... This one I went through several times (in linux, it wouldn't complete, it'd start just skipping numbers for the time, in windows it played in VLC just fine, but afterwards a DVD still won't stay in....)

                          Any ideas? I'll probably just have to replace the drive.... but I think rather than getting another Slotload SCSI DVD-Rom (which still go for 100~) I'll get a Plextor 16x dvd burner.... as soon as they're out anyhow....

                          Leech
                          Wah! Wah!

                          In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penises, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship.

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                            • Wombat
                              Super MURCer
                              • Aug 2000
                              • 9498
                              #8
                              Leech, the NEC trayload IDE Dual Layer is $73 at newegg.
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                                • Kooldino
                                  Super MURCer
                                  • Nov 2002
                                  • 3026
                                  #9
                                  ^^^

                                  I've heard good things about that and just picked one up for my brother.

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                                    • leech
                                      Super MURCer
                                      • Oct 1999
                                      • 1918
                                      #10
                                      One review on there says it doesn't support DAO? They have a Sony one there as well for 75. This does suck though, since there really aren't any SCSI DVD burners, I'm going to have to have IDE in my computer again Oh well, SCSI is too expensive...

                                      Leech
                                      Wah! Wah!

                                      In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penises, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship.

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                                        • Wombat
                                          Super MURCer
                                          • Aug 2000
                                          • 9498
                                          #11
                                          Well, maybe SATA or SAS drives are on the horizon?
                                          Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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                                            • xortam
                                              Super MURCer
                                              • Sep 1999
                                              • 4534
                                              #12
                                              Leech ... try recalibrating the laser for DVD (separate calibration than CD). Check out this site for some calibration info. My 303S does the same thing with DVDs but I haven't gotten around to popping it open since I don't use it for DVDs any more. I'd be interested if it works for you.
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                                                • leech
                                                  Super MURCer
                                                  • Oct 1999
                                                  • 1918
                                                  #13
                                                  I'm thinking it could very well be that it needs calibration. I just tried a DVD-r and it worked fine. Tried a few older movies (I'm thinking it's single-layer) and they worked, but any of the newer/dual layered ones get spit back out.

                                                  I'll look into doing the calibration..

                                                  Leech
                                                  Wah! Wah!

                                                  In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penises, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship.

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                                                    • leech
                                                      Super MURCer
                                                      • Oct 1999
                                                      • 1918
                                                      #14
                                                      Ok, I give up! Tried calibrating it... and well, now it won't play single-layer DVD's either. Yup, definitely time to get me a DVD burner...

                                                      SAS? SATA would be cool, though that's going to be a while until they're out in the 16x, aren't they?

                                                      Leech
                                                      Wah! Wah!

                                                      In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penises, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship.

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                                                        • Wombat
                                                          Super MURCer
                                                          • Aug 2000
                                                          • 9498
                                                          #15
                                                          SAS is Serial-Attached-SCSI. The SCSI guys like the physical SATA interface, and they're developing SCSI protocols over SATA.
                                                          Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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