It's generally retail DVDs that the problem is with, copies seem to be fine.
I am also having problems with some games that have been copied onto DVDs as
well though.

"John" wrote:

> Sirtokalott wrote:
> > Please can someone help? At some point last year both my DVD ROM and my
> > DVDRW decided to become picky about which DVDs they will play. Some DVDs
> > will only work in one drive, which is not always the same one. I have no
> > problem with CDs. Both drives used to work fine. I haven't made any changes
> > to the hardware. I have tried installing the firmware from the manufacturer.
> > I have done a full system recovery. I have the proper codecs installed.
> > I've installed service pack 2. I've tried uninstalling the drives then
> > rebooting. Nothing seems to work the drives even have the cheek to say they
> > are working properly. I've seen this problem posted elswhere by another
> > person but no one had an answer.
>
> Are you talking about retail DVD's or copied/home-made versions?
>
> John.
>