Optical drive problem

[saltheart3]

I have a vaio fw series, running Vista64, with an optiarc BD rom 5500s optical drive. It plays blue ray/dvds and burns discs fine, but will not play audio cds or run software discs. With the latter, it makes noises like it's trying to start, but the discs never spin. I've tried uninstalling the drive, updating the registry (from the Sony site) and have generally wasted an otherwise lovely spring Saturday trying to find a solution. Any suggestions? Thanks, Will

[skykit84]

Whats the exact model number in device manager?

Worst case scenario is its the laser and you'll have to get it replaced
But it might be just dirty
or it could be a firmware issue in which case the make/model/revision may point you to an update site for the firmware