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• Problems (Lite-On SOHW-1633S)
Question by Minionki7 Member since: 4 Mar 2009
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Hi,
when i put any disk in my drive it dosn't show up in my computer or autoplay. if i right-click and exlpore i can view the contents of the disk. i don't have any problem burning cds, havn't tried dvds. this problem hasn't always ocurred. i was trying to think what has happened since it stoped working. last month i updated the firmware from bsos to bsoy, i tryed puting bsos back on but it didn't help. i also installed alcohol 120% i unistalled it and still have trouble.

any suggestions?

thanks in advance.
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• I am having some issues with my Lite-on DVDRW SOHW-1633S BSOY recongizing DVD's.
Question by chrann Member since: 21 Feb 2009
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Karma: 50 , Saturday 21st of February 2009 19:25
My Lite-on DVDRW SOHW-1633S BSOY only wants to recongize certain DVD's. Mostly the older DVD's. Is there anything I can do to get it to recongize all DVD's? I don't know if I need to update something or what I need to do. I have not had any problems with it until recently and it is only with the newer DVD movies. I don't have any problems with the older ones or with CD's. Any help would be great. Thanks in advance.
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• lite-on (Lite-On SOHW-1633S)
Question by wizlock Member since: 23 Jan 2009
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Karma: 50 , Wednesday 28th of January 2009 02:03
i've found a couple of post that come close to my problem, but. So were it is ,my dvd burner was a lite-on 1633s-bpsa.IT stopped reading dvd's reads and wrights cd's ok ,so I updated fw too csot and now reads as a sohw 1653s csot. still reads cds but no not dvds. so i thought the dvd part was a lost case then it read one. so now i know that it works,{it read the dvd after a reboot i forgot it in the drive} i have uninstalled the dvd in manager and physcily. its reinstalled no problem it reads as a dvd-+rw like it should. i have ran flash utility 3.0.2 and setting utility 1.1.0. i ran the eeprom utility 4.1.0 too[after i upgraded to1653s csot . is it soft or hard problem? i think soft.Any help?
Answer by Hoku Member since: 2 Sep 2005
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Karma: 220 , Wednesday 28th of January 2009 04:52
I have the same problem with my 1633s with the stock BS0Y fw. The last time it had problems reading DVDs I opened it up and cleaned it with a can of dust-off then used a microfiber cloth on the laser lens. However, this time that didn't help so I'm replacing it. I also have a SHM-165H6S HS0E that's having problems reading DVDs as well. After cleaning, it is reading DVDs better but still has problems with some pressed movies. So I'm replacing it as well.

A couple of years ago I posted a tutorial on how to open the 1633s and clean it. It's not difficult to do. You can find the post here:

http://club.cdfreaks.com/f44/any-instructions-opening-1633s-cleaning-lens-204905/#post1656244
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• dvdrw problem (Lite-On SOHW-1633S)
Question by Eddie1 Member since: 20 Jan 2009
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Karma: 50 , Tuesday 20th of January 2009 21:32
Hi Folks.
I have this DVDRW product inbuilt into my PC and it has worked fine. Unfortunately my hard drive went 'kaput' and is irreperable so had to get a new hard drive fitted. I lost absolutely everything including my drivers / software. I have managed to get drivers for other parts but am struggling to get it for this liteon dvdrw. Where can I get this please?
Cheers
Eddie
Answer by CDuncle Member since: 16 Nov 2006
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Karma: 12390 , Tuesday 20th of January 2009 21:55
What OS are you using XP, Vista?
In any case all drivers for dvd drives are in OS, it should recognise your drive on start up.
Check Device Manager, if you can see your drive there.
If yes than it should work, if it does not work, than uninstall drive from there.
Shut down computer, wait for 10 seconds and restart. OS will find a drive and load appropriate driver.
If it cannot find the drive, than most likely something went wrong with it.
First make sure that all cables to a drive are connected and seated properly, as it could happen that during HD install some got loose.
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• lite-on dvdrw sohw-1633s. Will not read any discs
Question by ugbootshuffler Member since: 16 Jan 2009
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Karma: 160 , Friday 16th of January 2009 07:16
Using windows xp
The device will not read any discs (lite-on dvdrw sohw-1633s)
In device manager it says there are no problems
I have uninstalled and rebooted with no change
I have checked for updates which is ok.
Will keep this in point form as i tend to go on a bit
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Answer by pfloyd1 Member since: 20 May 2006
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Karma: 16650 , Friday 16th of January 2009 07:51
Replace the drive...
Answer by ugbootshuffler Member since: 16 Jan 2009
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Karma: 160 , Friday 16th of January 2009 12:31
Shit, I had a feeling that might be the case.
Thank you very much for your reply.
Answer by ldw Member since: 9 Dec 2004
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Karma: 5100 , Friday 16th of January 2009 15:10
ugbootshuffler said:
Using windows xp
The device will not read any discs (lite-on dvdrw sohw-1633s)
In device manager it says there are no problems
I have uninstalled and rebooted with no change
I have checked for updates which is ok.
Will keep this in point form as i tend to go on a bit
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Did your drive stop reading both cd and dvd? Strange, mine stopped with cd, but kept on reading and burning dvd.

Leo
Answer by pfloyd1 Member since: 20 May 2006
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Karma: 16650 , Friday 16th of January 2009 19:58
ugbootshuffler said:
Shit, I had a feeling that might be the case.
Thank you very much for your reply.


The drive is quite old. You can pick up a new one for under $30 from NewEgg.
Answer by ugbootshuffler Member since: 16 Jan 2009
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Karma: 160 , Saturday 17th of January 2009 02:59
(Did your drive stop reading both cd and dvd? Strange, mine stopped with cd, but kept on reading and burning dvd.)

It wont read any CD / DVD's of any description or format / file types
If I leave a disc and reboot or shut down and restart, upon start up it gets stuck at either a blue screen or black with a cursor.
Once I take the disc out and restart it seems to be fine.

I think I will look into upgrading all of my components or purchase a new PC or MAC due to the age of everything it is about 3 / 4 yrs old
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• Lite-On DVDRW SOHW-1633S BPSA not working
Question by cdfreakami? Member since: 4 Jan 2009
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Karma: 50 , Sunday 4th of January 2009 03:36
Hi, I'm a grandmother who's learning so please explain things as simply as possible. My problem is the LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1633S won't read or write. It just seems to grind when I put in a CD-R or DVD+R.

My D Drive is at 93% because I can write the recovery disks.

Are there common steps to diagnosing the problem?

SYSTEM:

Compaq Presario SR1620NX
AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3400+ RAM: 512 MB
Version: x86 Famil 15 Model 47 Stepping 2
Speed: 1989 MHz
Total Capacity: 149.03 GB

Windows XP Home Edition
Version: 5.1.2600
Service Pack: 3.0

LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1633S
idecdromlite-on__dvdrw__SOHW-1633s__bpsa__5&1c5c6e99%0%0.0.0

The HP support site says that the DVDRW can't be updated for this system.

Can it be repaired? crossflashed? updated with freeware?

Please help. Thanks in advance.
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• can't read second layer phillips DVD (Lite-On SOHW-1633S)
Question by lostinspace2558 Member since: 30 Nov 2008
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Karma: 100 , Sunday 30th of November 2008 14:39
Hi

I’m having a problem with a particular DL disc. It was burned with Nero in the summer of 2006 and has since been stored in a cool dark cupboard as it was part of a music archive. It was only when moving these discs to an external hard drive that I noticed this problem;
The disc only runs to 50% or sector 1960848 (layer transition problem?) before freezing. Any attempts to read the disc from this point onwards result in CRC errors or the code 03/15/02 which ISObuster describes as a laser positioning error.
CloneCD does exactly the same and there seems to be a gap of 32 sectors between each read error.
The disc was created in one session, with one track and the disc is closed. Format is UDF and the disc contains 2 WinRAR files and a WinRar.exe
I’ve put this disc in various PC’s and laptops running everything from Win98 to Ubuntu. It’s clearly a media problem rather than a dodgy DVD drive.
Any Ideas?

Drive used to burn disc was a Lite-on SOHW-1633S

Disc type: 14 (DVD+R DL)
Manufacturer ID: PHILIPS
Manufacturer: Philips
Media Type ID: CD2
Media revision no.: 00h
Capacity: 7.47 GB (8,031,600,640 bytes) / LBA: 3BD710h
Answer by negritude , Tuesday 2nd of December 2008 10:51
The only thing left to try is a good DVD reading/ripping drive, but you may not have access to one, or even know if you do. Can you find a computer with a Samsung DVD burner or DVD-ROM drive? A BenQ would also be a good choice, but once again, I have no idea what you have access to.

I assume by now you know to use nothing but Verbatim DL media for archiving.
Answer by lostinspace2558 Member since: 30 Nov 2008
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Karma: 100 , Friday 5th of December 2008 12:31
Yes I realise that now At the time though I was new to DL media. I believe I now somebody with a Samsung drive so I will try it there.

Currently I have access to a Lite-on SOHW-1633S and a Pioneer BDC-s02BK

The discs were also tried in a Freecom unit and various laptops.
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• CD Burning hangs at 5% progress (Lite-On SOHW-1633S)
Question by fiddlerman Member since: 22 Nov 2008
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Karma: 100 , Saturday 22nd of November 2008 01:10
Can anyone help please ?

Suddenly unable to burn CD rom or Audio Cd's

Using Nero 6 with Lite-On SOHW-1633S
Windows XP Pro, SP2.

Media - TDK-CDR80

All ok for 2-3 yrs until now -

Burning hangs at 5% progress. Drive whizzes round - sometimes program hangs requiring pc shutdown - or gives error log attached and aborts.

Not sure whther hardware or software - suspect hardware ?

Any suggestions appreciated

thanks
Answer by petra89 , Sunday 23rd of November 2008 07:24
try updating the firmware
Answer by fiddlerman Member since: 22 Nov 2008
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Karma: 100 , Tuesday 25th of November 2008 01:33
Thanks for suggestion....

updated firmware
reinstalled Nero
cleaned cd lens with ixos cleaning disc

still hangs at 5% progress
simulates ok

recall problem may have first occured when attempting to burn a data cd with too much data on.
Answer by asusfreak44 Member since: 20 Nov 2008
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Karma: 150 , Tuesday 25th of November 2008 01:44
fiddlerman said:
Thanks for suggestion....

updated firmware
reinstalled Nero
cleaned cd lens with ixos cleaning disc

still hangs at 5% progress
simulates ok

recall problem may have first occured when attempting to burn a data cd with too much data on.


How is the drive configured?? Slave, master, on its on channel?
Are you using buffer underrun protection? How much Ram do you have?



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• lite-on dvdrw sohw-1633s
Question by mrmojorisin1 Member since: 24 Sep 2008
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Karma: 60 , Thursday 25th of September 2008 22:14
Ik heb een probleem met mijn dvd writer,
hij heeft het altijd uitstekend gedaan maar nu plots
kan hij geen lege dvd+r meer lezen,hij vind gewoon geen disc,
hij leest wel beschreven dvd's en cd's
en hij schrijft cd-roms.
Wat kan hier de oplossing zijn?

bedankt
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• DVD part of burner/player won't work (Lite-On SOHW-1633S)
Question by crazewolf13 , Thursday 4th of September 2008 03:32
Unit will play cd's but not DVD's. Installed latest firmware, no help. While attempting to burn, unit cannot see media.
Answer by Kerry56 Member since: 5 Sep 2003
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Karma: 65620 , Thursday 4th of September 2008 03:44
Sounds like a partially dead burner. DVD laser for it may have gone bad.
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• Lite-On DVDRW SOHW 1633S BS01 Can't read DVDs!
Question by Sparhawk3 Member since: 22 Jul 2008
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Karma: 350 , Tuesday 22nd of July 2008 06:08
Alright, My mother lent me her DVDRW drive to play a couple of dvds on my computer (Store bought - more specifically the 3 Pirates of the Carribean movies) All I wanna do is play those Dvds, but when I go to 'My Computer' the Dvd drive is: DVD-RW Drive (E. Sounded good to me. So I insert the Dvd, and what you know? It doesn't read. I put in another couple of Dvds, all store bought, not burnt, all different movies, and same results. Next I attempt to see if it will read a regular CD, So i Put in a store bought disc (Spefically if it helps; The Temple of Elemental Evil Install Disc (disc 1)) and it loads and all normally.

So... Anything I can do to just watch those darn DVDs? Sure I can watch em on my tv, but I wanna watch and do other stuff on my comp, so play it on my comp....

Some other specs if needed:

OS: WinXP Pro ServicePack 2
AMD Sempron Processor 3000+
1.84GHz (Not exactly sure what that goes with, but that's what it says)
512 MB of RAM
**Ask for anything else**

The DVDRW Drive name: Lite-On DVDRW SOHW 1633S BS01


So, think you can help?
Answer by Sparhawk3 Member since: 22 Jul 2008
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Karma: 350 , Tuesday 22nd of July 2008 18:23
I'm considering a possible lack of codecs, so i googled a bit and simply cannot find anything. Even on the Emachines site under the drivers for the original machine... If you know where i could locate appropiate drivers and/or codecs. I'd appreciate it.
Answer by ala42 Member since: 22 Sep 2003
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Karma: 47760 , Tuesday 22nd of July 2008 18:52
Which DVD player software did you use ? If you have non, get VLC, which is free.
Answer by Sparhawk3 Member since: 22 Jul 2008
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Karma: 350 , Tuesday 22nd of July 2008 23:41
ala42 said:
Which DVD player software did you use ? If you have non, get VLC, which is free.


I just downloaded VLC, and when trying to open a DVD from the E: Drive (My DVDRW Drive) It simply tells me that It cannot open it.

I tried using one known as AVS DVD Player, and that more or less is the same.

Even when there is a DVD in there, When in 'My Computer' the E drive is simply listed as: DVD-RW Drive (E. So, while the dvd is in, the drive thinks the dvd isn't in.

Any further ideas?
Answer by FriendOf Member since: 19 Mar 2007
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Karma: 1230 , Wednesday 23rd of July 2008 00:01
Although it's rare, I have experienced a DVD-RW drive that simply no longer can read or no longer can write.

So in "My Computer" while a disc is inserted, is total size not listed? Also I assume you cannot right-click explore the drive? How about data and/or audio CD's...can they be accessed?
Answer by Sparhawk3 Member since: 22 Jul 2008
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Karma: 350 , Wednesday 23rd of July 2008 00:10
No total Size... Lists as: Used Space: 0bytes Free Space: 0bytes

Capacity: 0bytes

As for the explore, I can right click explore, and it simply directs me to the address:

E:

Nothing more. The filescreen has no files.

If a game disc counts, then yes. but i'll try a couple of cd's, one merely audio, one merely data and let you know.
Answer by Sparhawk3 Member since: 22 Jul 2008
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Karma: 350 , Wednesday 23rd of July 2008 00:12
yep, all cd's are readable... except DVDs
Answer by FriendOf Member since: 19 Mar 2007
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Karma: 1230 , Wednesday 23rd of July 2008 04:22
Sparhawk3,

Maybe someone else has other suggestions, but strange as it sounds, I personally have had a drive fail (and it wasn't that old) that could still write DVD's, still read CD's, but not read DVD's. I believe that it was an NEC or possibly my old Plextor. I had been using it heavily copying old scratched DVD's which I believe caused mine to fail.

Luckily drives are really cheap to replace. I just bought this Liteon for $20.99 shipped.

But like I said, wait to see if anyone else has any other suggestions before you give up on yours.

FriendOf
Answer by ala42 Member since: 22 Sep 2003
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Karma: 47760 , Wednesday 23rd of July 2008 11:45
Post a screenshot of nero cdspeed's Disc Info tab.
Answer by Sparhawk3 Member since: 22 Jul 2008
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Karma: 350 , Thursday 24th of July 2008 04:10
ala42 said:
Post a screenshot of nero cdspeed's Disc Info tab.


Sure if you can tell me what nero cdspeed's disc info is lol
Answer by pfloyd1 Member since: 20 May 2006
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Karma: 16650 , Thursday 24th of July 2008 04:29
The 1633s is an old drive. Better off investing in a newer drive.
Answer by Sparhawk3 Member since: 22 Jul 2008
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Karma: 350 , Thursday 24th of July 2008 14:59
is that all i can do?
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