DVD/CD-RW Drive problem

[Shibathedog]

I have an LG GCC-4480B. This drive has always been extremley reliable in every way. But recently ive had some problems.

 

Before i reformatted my PC, I couldnt play DVDs, okay, id been messing around with ripping and encoding stuff, my DVD software might have gotten screwed up, it wouldnt open anymore anyway.

 

Then i reformatted my PC, and everything worked perfectly. Now something else is going wrong. I can read everything i throw at it, Except for some reason it doesnt want to read DVD+Rs!!! Im using the exact DVD+Rs it used to read all the time without problems. I dont have any DVD-Rs to see if it will read those. But WTF??! Is it because of a firmware upgrade i did that might block it from reading DVD+Rs and DVD-Rs? (I havent tested any DVD + or - RW media at all)

 

Any ideas on what i should do?

[Agozer]

My GSA-4163B reads DVD+Rs just fine. Not exactly the same model, but close enough. have you tried downgrading the firmware?

[Shibathedog]

I think i did, but i dont remember what happened, Im pretty sure it still didnt read them, ill try again though.

 

Oh and another thing that happens, is it never autoplays, and when i take a disc out, it frequently thinks that the disc is still in (Like if i was playing Half-Life 2, In my computer, it still says the Half-Life 2 disc is in, but when i try to open it, it says the device is not ready)

[Agozer]

The drive could be broken as well (since reinstalling Windows and downgrading the firmware does very little)... How's the warranty on it?