Problems with my SATA optical CD/DVD Drive, help needed:)

LifeOnMars · Sep 19, 2008

Having a problem with my optical drive, it seems to sometimes work at full speed and installs games very quick and burns very quick, then I will try installing another game or opening a magazine disk and it will churn for ages eventually installing the game after an hour or opening the magazine disk after say 4mins!!!! Its very annoying and I have no clue as to why its happening :mad:

When its running at full speed its sweet and exactly gives the performance I thought it would when i bought it, but all of these slow downs can last for ages and it really is driving me mad, any help on this would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

Deleted member 3 · Sep 19, 2008

Sounds like it's just dirty/shitting out on you. Can't imagine there being a software cause for this.
Tried reading the disks with another drive/machine?

alexp999 · Sep 19, 2008

I have this with my crysis disc. Only way to get it to read it in a reasonable time, is to insert the disc, then when I hear it churn about, I eject the disc, then close the tray (so disc is still in tray) and its fine. Something to do with firmware incompats iirc.

LifeOnMars · Sep 19, 2008

Ok...so should I look at finding a firmware update for the drive, any sites which are good for this at all, thanks.

alexp999 · Sep 19, 2008

Hereis the only support page I could find:

http://www.sony.com.au/support/product/product.jsp?selectedProd=DRU190S

No updates on there, but it links you to this support page :confused:

http://sony.storagesupport.com/product/128#news

Where did you get your drive from?

Fitseries3 · Sep 19, 2008

does the drive have lightscribe? if so... the models with LS tend to wear out alot faster for some reason even if you dont use that feature. i have gone through 8 LS drives in the past year and all i do is copy dvd's.

LifeOnMars · Sep 20, 2008

Thanks for your help people. I flashed the firmware and it was still no good. Stumbled across this - http://winhlp.com/node/10 and it worked a treat. Installs are all super quick and it is reading all my disks really fast, hope this helps someone who may have had serious issues with their dvd drive

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Processor	Ryzen 5 5600X
Motherboard	Asrock B450M Pro4-F
Cooling	Vetroo V5
Memory	16Gb (8gb x 2) 3200 MHz DDR 4
Video Card(s)	GTX 1080
Storage	Samsung 860 Evo 500Gb SSD, Samsung 860 Evo 1Tb SSD
Display(s)	Asus VG249Q3A (180Hz Freesync/Gsync) & 4K Samsung TV
Case	Fractal Design Meshify 2 Compact w/Dark Tempered Glass
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
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Cooling	Xigmatek Dark Knight w/AC MX2 ~ Case Fans: 2 x 180mm + 1 x 120mm Silverstone Fans
Memory	4GB OCZ Platinum PC2-8000 @ 1000Mhz 5-5-5-15 2.1v \| 2 x 1GB DDR2 667 MHz
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Storage	2x WD6400AAKS 1 TB Raid 0, 140GB Raid 1 & 80GB Maxtor Basics External HDD (storage) \| 160GB 2.5"
Display(s)	Samsung SyncMaster SM2433BW @ 1920 x 1200 via DVI-D \| 15.4" WSXGA+ (1680 x 1050 resolution)
Case	Silverstone Fortress FT01B-W ~ Logitech G15 R1 / Microsoft Laser Mouse 6000
Audio Device(s)	Soundmax AD2000BX Onboard Sound, via Logitech X-230 2.1 \| ADI SoundMAX HD Audio
Power Supply	Corsair TX650W \| HP 90W
Software	Windows 7 Ultimate Build 7100 x64 \| Windows 7 Ultimate Build 7100 x64
Benchmark Scores	3DM06: 19519, Vantage: P16170 ~ Win7: -CPU 7.5 -MEM 7.5 -AERO 7.9 -GFX 6.0 -HDD 6.0

System Name	Bad Moon Ryzen
Processor	Ryzen 5 5600X
Motherboard	Asrock B450M Pro4-F
Cooling	Vetroo V5
Memory	16Gb (8gb x 2) 3200 MHz DDR 4
Video Card(s)	GTX 1080
Storage	Samsung 860 Evo 500Gb SSD, Samsung 860 Evo 1Tb SSD
Display(s)	Asus VG249Q3A (180Hz Freesync/Gsync) & 4K Samsung TV
Case	Fractal Design Meshify 2 Compact w/Dark Tempered Glass
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	MSI MPG A850GF (850w)
VR HMD	Rift S

Problems with my SATA optical CD/DVD Drive, help needed:)

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