optiarc

Hi, ACER 6530G I seem to have read a bit about this, and it seems to be a problem on certain Acer machines, with the SONY "Optiarc BC5500-S" BD-ROM and Acer Arcade Deluxe Software. "not sure of versions" Some folk say use a certain version of Acer's software,others say flash the firmware of...

Allo, My Optiarc DVD RW AD-7203A drive refuses to recognize any sort of media I put within it. I am unsure of when this problem occured (because I rarely use the drive, which begs the question of how in the world can it stop working), but I do know that nothing I have tried has helped me. I've...

Hi all. I recently installed a new SATA Sony Optiarc DVD-RW drive (Model AD-7280S-0B) to replace an older IDE drive, and since its install I have experienced two BSoDs within 10 minutes of booting with the same STOP error both times; 0x0000001E. Attached the the two .DMP files that were created...

I have a Dell Studio 1535 with Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit, the DVD-RW drive is Optiarc 7640s. I have read that there are a lot of people having problems with that particular DVD-RW drive. The problem is: it is not detecting DVDs; it detects, reads, and writes cds satisfactory. I have used the...

i once burned at 8x or 16x with no errors,even and clean burn.but now all of a sudden 4x is highest without "rings of saturn" and unplayable discs.Help! W7/64 laptop/facory optiarc/LG external.(all burning programs tried)

Hey guys, I have a Acer Aspire X1700 that came with Windows Vista installed. I upgraded to Windows 7 and now my dvd drive doesn't recognize dvds (ie movies, dvd games 'Starcraft 2'). I can play CD just fine. My desktop came with Optiarc DVD RW AD-7203S SCSI. I've tried uninstalling the...

I just built this PC and it had no trouble using the DVD/CD drives to load the operating system, GPU drivers etc. However, the drives don't recognize any type of blank media (CD or DVD) and I have tried several brands that I had around the office. The Sony/Optiarc drives did not come with...

Hello, Recently my disk drive (optiarc dvd rw ad-7201s5) on my Dell XPS desktop stopped reading any disk I put into it. I previously had Daemon Tools Lite installed, and uninstalled it. This problem arose a few weeks after the uninstall, after I moved my computer into another office. What...

Just installed Windows 7 Ultimate from XP using the instructions provided in upgrade packet. Now my optiarc DVD RW AD-7910S won't work (have a Lenovo ThinkPad T400) - I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling, running checkdisk, driver says that it is updated when I try to update it, etc. When I go...

My CD/DVD drive isnt showing up in my computer or in the device manager. My drive is an Optiarc DVD RW AD-750A My computer is a Lenovo ideapad-Y710 laptop I have had this problem for a while. I finally just backed up to an external and re installed windows. but still the problem...

My Optiarc AD-7201s5 DVD-RW drive isn't loading my PC-DVD games. I recently bought Borderlands and put it into my DVD drive and it did not load. I know for a fact my DVD drive works as I installed Windows 7 via the DVD on the same drive. It will also burn DVDs and CDs, and read CDs, but will...

I have dual boot (win 7/win xp). My dvd-rom works perfecty in win xp but in Win 7 i can't read any dvd-s, it sends pc to "not responding". I have the latest firmware. What do i do?:frown:

I'm trying to play blu ray disks using Sony Optiarc BC-5500S USB BD ROM and Power DVD 9 Ultra Edition on my Acer 1810TZ which has Intel GMA 4500M chipset. OS is Windows 7. I get the error message 'your disc drive does not support the playback for this content' when trying to play any Blu Ray...

I am trying to burn some photos from Windows Photo Gallery to CD but after I have chosen the photos and click burn I get the following message :-You don't have a disc drive capable of burning files to CD or DVD. I am running Vista Home Premium on a Dell Inspiron 530 I have two drives an...

I recently went from Vista 32-bit to Windows 7 32-bit on my Acer 5536g laptop and I can't for the life of me get the DVD burner to work. It worked fine on Windows Vista: I used Windows DVD Maker to encode and burn DVDs to watch on my DVD player. However, after having switched to Windows 7...

After installing the rc Windows 7ultimate version, I noticed that the dvd drive doesn`t show up when I click on the My Computer icon. I haven`t been able to find a driver for it. The model in my laptop is: Sony (optiarc) dvd-rw ad-7540a. The computer also doesn`t find/show any memory...

Hello, I have a Gateway computer with an Optiarc DVD RW drive that works well most of the time BUT if i let my computer go to sleep an odd thing happens. When I power the computer back up from sleep, the drive starts revving up like its reading a disc, even when there is no disc inside, and it...

My Windows 7 is unable to read any CD/DVDs I put and I've tried several methods like uninstalling driver, reboot then let it auto reinstall again. Nothing works. My device name is optiarc dvd+-rw ad-5540a ata. Hope someone can help me :frown:

Ok, I've tried everything I know but nothing seems to help, so I'm going to ask here. I have a DELL STUDIO M1737 with an OPTIARC DVDRWBD BC-5600S the problem I'm having is whenever I insert a disk into it, the whole of explorer.exe locks-up, even clicking it, and properties with not disk in it...

Hello Just installed Windows 7, and it's been very good so far. However, I can't open my DVD-drive. Device manager recognizes it as an "Optiarc DVD RW AD-7200S ATA Drive" and it has the newest drivers... However, nothing happends when I click my open drive button. Help me please :)