Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: wrag on March 16, 2009, 01:21:52 PM
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Just had a DVD RW drive go south.
It would read sometimes and sometimes not.
Replaced it with a backup I had setting around and problem solved.
My question...
After replacing the slow dieing DVD RW drive the machine boots much faster. (guess it was slowed by the DVD drive hunting/reading?)
On some occasions if I tried to read a dvd the system would hang and then reboot.
This was a nearly brand new DVD RW drive failed in less then 6 months IIRC.
anyone else have/experience these type of problems.
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My Plextor finally kind of kicked the bucket about 3 months ago. It was just about 5 years old. My burn speeds has been really slowed. Nothing beyond a 1X when burning a DVD. Occassionally (once every couple months, within the last year of its life), my PC would hang at the post screen. Since the new drive I never had a problem with boots. So I attributed it to the failing drive.
Overall the drive served me well and was pleased. IIRC it cost me $180 back in the day.
Now I have an Asus SATA drive. This is actually my 2nd drive, the first being DOA from Newegg.
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I guess they don't build them like they used to huh? The two CR ROM drives (1 drive, 1 burner) in my old Dell (1997) and the one in my Sony laptop (2000) are still working fine.
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I do recall scavenging back in the day for a CD Drive. A 2X drive IIRC. This was when I first got into building about 10 years ago. I tested to see if it still worked. Anyways, it was bad, once the power molex was plugged into the drive, the system wouldn't even post.