SecuROM and cd/dvd drives

[ZarinaDrac]

I'm not sure whether or not this should be here or not.

At one point I was one of the naive who played their games with the original cds instead of making no-cd cracks, blithely unaware of the fact that I'd allowed SecuROM to attack my precious computer.

Recently I noticed that my dvd rom drive does not read dvds, both store-bought and dvds of home videos. Is it at all possible that SecuROM is the problem for this, or could it be something else?

I'm extremely grateful for any opinions.

[MaryH]

It might be. You might check out the links in my sig. One can never tell with EA.

[Razamataz]

If your CD/DVD rom is a CDR/DVDR then it is a good guess that its SecuROM! Heck once I installed Teens, I couldn't even use My Rom at all. It disabled my DVD-R untill i fully rebooted my system. They have a porgram hidden deep over at thesims2 to remove it but I forgot where the link is now.

[ZarinaDrac]

Yeah, I've gotten rid of securom since, and no longer have the games on my system, but the drive still doesn't work. Is the only option to reboot the entire system?