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Offline wrag

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Reboot DVD failure?
« on: March 16, 2009, 01:21:52 PM »
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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Re: Reboot DVD failure?
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2009, 02:42:50 PM »
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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Offline BaldEagl

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Re: Reboot DVD failure?
« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2009, 10:54:23 PM »
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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Re: Reboot DVD failure?
« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2009, 12:40:56 AM »
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.
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