Asus BW-16D1HT stoped reading disks suddenly

[Coopervid]

I am having the same issue sort of, my drive is not reading any Discs, DVD or Blue Ray. I have taken apart and cleaned still no joy. Changed cable, tried it on another Mac... no matter what I try Make MKV sees the drive, shows all the info about the drive... but im always getting a no disc inserted. Also when not running MakeMKV no Disc is ever loaded or shows up in any DVD/BR players.

Drive Information
Manufacturer: ASUS
Product: BW-16D1HT
Revision: 3.10
Serial number: M6LIBNC5541
Firmware date: 2119-01-04 10:14
Bus encryption flags: 1F
Highest AACS version: 32

LibreDrive Information
Status: Enabled
Drive platform: MT1959
Firmware type: Patched (microcode access re-enabled)
Firmware version: 3.10
DVD all regions: Yes
BD raw data read: Yes
BD raw metadata read: Yes
Unrestricted read speed: Yes

No disc inserted

wondering if it just died, purchased May 2019

Most likely it's dead. Try a CD, try re-flashing. If it doesn't work it's a door stop. My first NH16NS55 which is the identical hardware also died after 2 years.

[brianmw36]

huh, wont even read a cd...

[waldo22]

full shutdown the pc flip psu switch hold power button for 10 seconds see if it works then

Just a "me too" on this. I tried restarting the PC several times and it didn't work, but unplugging the SATA power from the BW-16D1HT and plugging it back in forced it to hard reset and it started working immediately.