Short Problem:
My DVD Drive stopped functioning half way through watching a DVD Video. Now The whole drive won't work, as well as a brand new drive I just bought. Switched cables to see if it was a bad IDE, but still does not work. Reinstalled Windows on a formatted drive. No avail.

Long Problem:
I was watching a movie on my DVD drive when the video jittered, like it had a bad sector on it. Took the Disc out, put it back in and skipped the section that faulted. Had to reboot the whole PC from a system lock up after that.

A few days later my drive failed all together -- Windows and BIOS still recognized it, but the discs either wouldn't run (My system kept reporting that I had an RPC1 error) or it would run so slow I would have to reboot.

Mind you my Master CD Drive works fine, and when trying the DVD drive as Master it still does not work.

After a few days I bought a new Lite-On DVD Burner, and the same problem keeps happening. Thus, I know it's not the drive, nor can be it be the cable (I still haven't tried a brand new cable, which I will when I can. I just switched positions on my current one.)

I reinstalled Windows XP pro on my system. After Windows failed to detected my devises 3 times I decided to do a full reformat and reinstall. Windows installed without a hitch and began working much more smoothly ( as always. Silly windows. ) Though now my PC doesn't really lock up anymore, it still does not recognize any discs put into the drive. (Remind you that my CD drive works fine.)

When I tried to run a setup program from the DVD drive, it pretends to run autostart 5 or 6 times until I manually open the drive in explorer and start the application. It gives me an error about only half way requesting a WriteDocument or ReadDocument reference.

Does anyone know what's up?

EDIT: I got that error code here, see attachment.

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Hi Neceros, Sorry it's taken so long to reply to your issue.

Can you check the DMA settings?

Start -> Run -> devmgmt.msc

Expand IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers
Check both Primary and Secondary channels.
Double click on each one, and select Advanced Settings and make sure DMA if available is selected for both Device 0 and 1.

Thanks for getting back to me.

In the Device Manager I have to select Parallel ATA Controller to get to my CD/DVD Drive. From there I go to Secondary Channel and it lists my Drives. Both drives have "Let BIOS select transfer mode" selected and my CD Drive says "Multi-word DMA 2", while my DVD Drive says "Ultra DMA 4 - Ultra66".

Hope that's what you meant.

New Updated:

I fiddled with the IDE drivers and reinstalled them. I set the Transfer Mode to "Multi-word DMA 2" instead of Ultra66. Works fine now, though I'm not sure why using a better system does not work. In any case, it's fixed and works properly. I haven't yet tried to burn anything or play a Video DVD, but I will soon.

If anyone can shed light on to the reasoning of it's failure in this aspect please do so.