Sony DVD RW DW-D56A **PLEASE HELP**

Tony Safe · Newbie Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 6

Hi, in the last couple of days the Sony DVD RW DW-D56A drive on my comp has stopped recognising disks i am a complete newbie so please go easy with the descriptions of what the problems and solutions might be Many thanks for your time

Ulukai · Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 6:16 pm Post subject:

Hey Tony, We will try and guide you through some steps to make it working again. Let's start with the first step and fix things along the way. First we need to make sure nothing is bothering your Sony drive. Can you download the file i have attached? It will scan your system for any filters that may interfere with your Sony. Simply extract the zip file and run the file that is extracted, it will create a log file on your desktop, can you show it on this forum?

Tony Safe · Newbie Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 6

Ulukai · Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 2:39 pm Post subject:

Hey Tony, This is exactly what I meant. Now we can work on temporarily turning off the filters. I've included 2 files, one is to turn off the filters(filters-off.zip) and the other is enabled them again(filters-on.zip). Can you download filters-off.zip, extract it and run it? (double click the extracted file) After it reports back that is has been succesfully added, you have to restart your computer. After the restart, test the drive again, to see if this fixed it. If it doesn't we'll put everything back as it was (filters-on.zip), and focus on another solution. Which reminds me, do you have a Dell machine or a Sony Vaio? Cheers,

Tony Safe · Newbie Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 6

Hey dude, Its a Sony Vaio I did what you asked and it didn't work so i have now turned them back on

Ulukai · Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:49 pm Post subject:

Hey Tony, Let's try and update the firmware. You can find the firmware on the Sony site, or you can get it at this link. You have to extract the package and start the PFS3 package, this will update the firmware and after you restart, test the drive again. Let me know what happens. Cheers,

Tony Safe · Newbie Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 6

Sony is an absolute joke They do not have my model vaio in there list and i even asked it to detect it and guess what? it chose a complete different one BTW i am gonna send you a PM giving you my msn it might help get this sorted faster

Ulukai · Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 7:17 am Post subject:

I suspected they might, it's an OEM drive, they don't offer to much support on that. Click here to download all firmwares up to PFS3. You need to extract it and execute the PFS3 package. The test the drive again. Cheers,

Tony Safe · Newbie Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 6

Hey dude I have updated with the PFS3 firmware and still no joy Does it help you to know that windows does not start if there is a disk inserted? it wont load until i eject it

Ulukai · Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 11:04 am Post subject:

Sounds like the drive just fails at recognizing any media at all, maybe the laser lenz is dirty. Did you think of getting a CD/DVD-ROM cleaning kit?? Cheers,

Tony Safe · Newbie Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 6

Well Well Well As simple as that eh? haha Many thanks for your time dude its much appreciated

vs292 · Newbie Joined: 16 Mar 2006 Posts: 1

hey, i seem to have the same problem with this drive on my Dell Inspiron 9300 machine. I've tried removing the filters as suggested above, and things have not really improved. I've also flashed the latest firmware update. Help! v

Ulukai · Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:31 pm Post subject:

A cleaningkit solved Tony's problem, have you tried that?

lucas_raven · Newbie Joined: 07 Apr 2006 Posts: 3

Hi... I have a similar problem and have addressed this same post on the VAIO forum. I bought a VAIO VGN-FS215S some 9 months ago and it came along with a dual-DVD burner (Sony DVD RW DW-D56A). In the last few days I am unable to burn any dvds, (dvd-r, dvd+r, dvd+rw and dvd-rw). The Sonique software tells me either to use a branded dvd or clean the dvd from fingerprints and dust. So I tried using a sony dvd-r and still the problem lurks. So I uninstalled Sonique and put in Nero Burning ROM v6.3.117. It shows a different error now. It says unspecified target error. The funny part is I can still read cds and dvds and write cds but cant burn dvds !!! I tried a firmware update and still no luck. Then i tried putting in old firmware programs found on http://codeguys.rpc1.org/firmwares.html#cat_slimdvdrw and there is no change in the errors. Any help to this matter is highly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Regards AJ

jorge_ddl · Newbie Joined: 11 Apr 2006 Posts: 2

Hello everybody, I also have a similar problem. I have a sony vaio laptop VGN-A290F with the DW-D56A PFS3 optical drive (it already has installed the latests firmware upgrades I´ve found on the sony site) and Windows XP. It works perfectly (at least apparently) playing DVD´s, reading Data CD´s and Data DVD´s (also plays ok mp3s and MPEGs). The problem is playing and burning Audio CDs. When I try to play a CD It plays the song for only 2 or 3 minutes (some times more, the time varies to up to 20 mins **but only on the first play**) and after that it just stops playing. If I try to play again it does the same thing and it will go on like that for 1 or 2 more times until it stops playing at all. Then I have to reboot to make it play again. When I try to burn it burns it does the same, burns only the first minutes and then just silence. My question is, since I can actually play the song for some minutes can this be a hardware problem? My guess would be that if this was a hardware problem I couldn´t play anything at all, can you please share your thoughts on this? Thanks a lot

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