optic drives not reading discs.

[DouglasAdriano]

Hey guys,

i got a couple of optic drives that refuse to work at all; windows detects them, they show up in device manager and windows explorer, but won't read any discs at all.

i tried a couple of fixes that i found online while trying to make the drives work;

 editing registry, multiple firmwares for the drives, different drivers, tried the drives over USB, SATA, multiple sata ports, multiple sata cables, two different systems, in both windows and ubuntu.

i have no idea what to try next, the drives just won't work. any clues?

 

drives were TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-223C and LG GH24NSBO

 

im running a Biostar b350-gt3 with a ryzen5 1600 system.

[da na]

Then the drives are probably faulty at a hardware level - remember, optical drives are precise mechanical devices with many points of failure. 

Any working ones?

[Guest]

Compact Disc drives for PC were literally the least reliable component to ever exist... I've had 3.5" floppy drives last longer.

[DouglasAdriano]

On 9/14/2021 at 10:14 PM, Mel0nMan said:

Then the drives are probably faulty at a hardware level - remember, optical drives are precise mechanical devices with many points of failure. 

Any working ones?

i don't think both drives are faulty and develop the same exact problem, one of the drives, the newer TSST one, did read discs on ubuntu, i believe it to be a windows problem.