Major blu ray drive problem I've never heard of please help.

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#1 morgandethloff
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My rig consists of an AMD Athlon 5600, a gigabyte M57SLI motherboard, 2 gigs of corsair ram, a WD 250 gig hard drive, ATI 4870 and an LG GGC H20L Blu ray/ HD DVD drive. The drive used to work fine and now seems to have a mind of its own. During the course of running a disk it will inexplicably dissapear. Not only will it stop but the computer will simply stop recognizing that it's even there at all. That sound that you hear when you unplug a thumbdrive will sound and then poof, it wont even open up! I just gave it a fresh wipe and reinstall to no avail. What could possibly cause this? Is the drive itself going out? When it works, it works just fine and then simply vanishes, sometimes a few seconds after it starts reading a disk. Any ideas?

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#2 Dr_Brocoli
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Hmmm... Is the power connector loose? Of the other connector for the data? (ive been drinkign and the name escapes my mind haha)
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#3 morgandethloff
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No, the connection was the first thing that I checked. Could this be the sign of a drive going bad? I turned off the antivirus, reloaded xp and it still comes and goes......
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#4 kodex1717
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If you haven't already updated the firmware, I would check and make sure that it's up to date.
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#5 cornholio157
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and if none of that works and its a reletively new drive id send it back and either get a new one or get another one from a difrent company
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#6 morgandethloff
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Think I got it. I took out the NForce IDE drivers and the safely remove hardware icon went away. I think that's it, go figure.
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#7 Targzissian
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When I do upgrades on Vista it has an optional nVidia IDE controller or some such it asks to install. I always uncheck that one because when I have installed it in the past it treats my hard drives like a removable component and gives me the option to "safely remove hardware." Yo, this isn't a server. There's no reason I would take out a hard drive while the computer is running. So when I've made the mistake of installing that before I've always rolled back to the restore point it creates when it starts the update. Sounds related to your issue.
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#8 godofwar2610
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You might have to replace your IDE cable i had the same problem, dont worry theyr only like $2.