gknot / smartripper damaging dvd drive?

[bloodyrectum]

dvd drive has never given me any problems at all. on friday night, i watched a dvd and turned off my machine. saturday morning, i installed gknot + the upgrade, because i had read how superior SBC encoding is to Flask/XMPEG, which I have used repeatedly in the past.

so, i installed GordianKnot, and attempted to rip the DVD. Immediately afterwards, the computer stopped responding until i ejected the disc. Now, no disc at all can be read in the drive; DVD, AudioCD, nor data CD. I have since removed Gknot the best I could (considering that there are no uninstallers) and tried to reinstall the drivers to the DVD drive, but discs are still unable to be read. Thanks in advance.

[Enchanter]

How old is your drive? And has it been showing signs of wearing lately? I use Smart ripper and GK, both installed separately at different times though, and no harm has come to my DVD drive. I have used Smartripper for almost a year, if I remember correctly.

[bloodyrectum]

not too old

the dvd drive is a little over a year old. i previously detected no problems with it at all. in fact, i had just watched a dvd on it about 12 hours before the installation/fiasco.

i don't know if gknot/smartripper are to blame, but it is an amazing coincidence, and i am curious if anyone else has had the same coincidence...

thanks

[Enchanter]

It wouldn't be me though.

[davoy]

Doubt it's the software m8
dvd-rom are just like any other component, doesnt last forever although yours is only a year old
fact that it happend when u installed and used all that software is coincidence i'd say. Using it for over a year now and no probs