Bought a game yesterday and my pc wont read the disc. Ive tried updating firmware, other DVD drive in the pc i even went out today and bought a brand new dual layer DVD drive and its now worse wont read anything. i tried the game in another pc and it reads it fine. this is getting on my T*ts now.

Help

 

What format is the game disc?

 

DVD format

 

That doesn't really help. DVD rom? DVD video? DVD audio? Blu-Ray? HD DVD?

 

its DVD ROM

 

Right, so it's a standard DVD-ROM disc, and it wouldn't read in your original DVD-ROM drive, so you then bought a new DVD-ROM/Writer - and this drive won't read ANY discs at all? Ie, no DVD video's, no other DVD-ROM's, no CD's etc etc?

Id say it's a computer issue then, as it'd be very unlucky to have bought a new drive that is faulty (although not impossible)

Check the cabling from the drive to the mobo would be first port of call - correct pin's and securely fitted. Try uninstalling and reinstalling the drive in Windows, and/or updating the drivers for it.

 

There could be any number of reason's why this isn't working. Remove the drive from device manager by going into the control panel, then system, then click the hardware tab, then click the device manager tab, and then the + next to DVD cd rom drives, right click on the drive, left click uninstall, click ok etc, then shut down and restart the pc. Failing that my best advice would be to reinstall windows.