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Thanks for all the help in getting my 600e working. I have one more question It has a DVD drive in the bay. CD ROM works fine but when I put in DVD nothing I have downloaded a couple of different DVD players for windows 98 se that I am using (remember this is a low budget project)
k-lite basic is one I think. Not at home so cant check. and a AV DVD Player Morpher. But nothing happens cant hear dvd spinning up like when you put a cd in.
any thoughts
Thanks

First thing to try: Some of the old CD/DVD drives that shipped with 600 and 600E machines are not able to read "dual-layer" discs. They may also have difficulty with burned DVDs and/or other seemingly normal DVDs. Have you tested your drive with a store-bought, clean, old-style DVD from say, 5 years ago or more?

Phil.

Let me see, the last time I had a DVD drive do this, i updated the firmware and that ended up bricking it. There must be something wrong with the laser or the lens that is preventing the drive from reading DVD's. I replaced my desktop's dvd drive with a known working one and it was fine. That is just my guess. If you can find another DVD drive for your 600, try it and see if the same problem occurs. If it works, then your current drive has problems, if not, then its a system problem (possibly BIOS. Sometimes the BIOS will not see DVD drives and therefore will not work properly).