20 Most Recent LG GMA-4020B Super-Multi DVD-RAM/R/RW&CD-R/RW Writer, Original Retail (DVDRRW4020B) Burner Questions & Answers

1st step; Acquire/buy a cd/dvd rom drive cleaning tool kit from your local pc store.
2nd step; Install a dvd coder/decoder software, try Power DVD player software it has a trial version
3rd step; After installing the DVD coder/decoder from Power DVD player try playing a dvd movie rom disc it should work/play... hope these tips help ;-)

I am definitely not an expert but even I know no one likes Vista and these days it is frowned on even more as the support for it has been withdrawn. Windows 2000 is now too old to be of any practical use online. XP is old and limited but is still very popular because it is quite good and it suits most of the people most of the time. I use it myself. I am using it now. In some ways it is superior to Windows 7 that is on my downstairs computer. I have a friend who is a real computer boffin and he has completely finished with Windows and now uses Linux. He says it is superior in almost every way... If your graphics was ok before you began your exercise you should not need to buy another. I have just had the same trouble. After loading XP on my work computer I had only 13 colours and most of the device manager was inoperative, effectively preventing me doing anything about it. In this case I believe there was a fault somewhere on the motherboard because not wanting to fiddle around with it I swapped the hard drive into another computer and reloaded XP with no trouble. I have had trouble in the past. I don't know definitely what was wrong all of the time but a couple of times the systems disc was defective and other times I believe the dvdr wasn't reading the disc very well and once the hard drive was bad. Other times computers haven't worked as expected simply because the bios battery was discharged. I know my limitations and I am fairly confident if the motherboard and power supply are good, then by fiddling around with the dvdr or changing it for one of the many others I have accumulated, by fiddling around with the systems discs and so forth, they usually eventually work as intended and if they don't it is because there is a motherboard fault I know nothing about and I junk it and move onto the next. The stuff I am working with is around 15 years old and most electronic gear is expected to become tired and develop faults after that time. We wouldn't blame a tv, hi-fi or something for failing after even 10 years so why do we think computers are any different...

i think its not the Drive problem, but lead to monitor or graphic issue..

i downloaded the nero 8 trail version from the net but it needs a serial key to activate please send me the serial key for the activation and aslo tell me how can i crack it to make it full version

http://kat.ph/programma-nero-7-11-10-0-lightscribe-multi-languages-rar-t3839354.html#hope this helps

Sir
Change DVD Drive

my DVD ROM IS NOT DETECTED BY THE COMPUTER HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-H54N

1.control panel->system->hardware->DEVICE MANAGER 2.uninstall your driver 3.restart you computer 4.on tray icon a balloon come with a MSG of 'found new hardware' 5.click on it 6.select your driver from it .then select suitable option
if you still have problem buy a you op(win xp,vista,7..).using that disk repair you computer.

Spend $40 to buy a new CD/DVD reader/writer drive,
and install it to replace your "dead" optical device.

This is less expensive than paying a technician to "trouble-shoot".

Try installing in compatibility mode, right click on exe

your location please.

use DVD cleaner and

Well, since I received a solution from MAXTRIXKHAN, I just wanted to check back with NCIX.com, and here is a recap of what I did, and what they told me...

After a few tries, I had to contact LG Customer service.
I tried to burn to...

-Maxell CD-R, no problems,
-TDK DVD-RW, no problems,
-Verbatim DVD+R, Computer hangs.

Well, I bought this DVD-Writer to replace my old GSA-4167B, and LG customer service told me that this DVD-Writer does not support the Verbatim DVDs.

So, if you have plenty of Verbatim DVDs, you should forget about this writer.

Supported DVDs...
Maxell, Sony, TDK

Will have to send it back to NCIX

So beware

tiyo73

U have to replace a new LG DVD RAM the lence inside the LG DVD RAM got spoilt or

You DO NOT require a driver as such for any CD DVD.

maybe its depend to ur burning software.how much RAM i have?

how much is the lifetime?maybe the lens need to cleaning.try another CD/DVDs .

open the cabinet  try changing the cables connected to it   and restart  the system this will do
if not then reinstalll l the os after makin essential backups