2 DVD-RW Drives busted in 2 weeks!

[JN]

Guys,

Something strange is going on with my rig....It seems to be killing my DVD-RW drives.

I first got a brand-spankin-new 20x Samsung drive which lasted for less than a week before it lost the ability to read any DVD's (dvd's just kept spinning up and down).

So i binned that and went out and bought a Pioneer.

Pioneer has only written 2 DVD's, but this evening when i went to open it, the draw mechanism was really slow to open, and after putting a DVD in it was unable to read it.

I've took the drive apart and looked inside, but can't find any obvious problem or obstruction.

Any ideas?

 

[Toxcity]

Checked your voltages, Jim?

 

[JN]

Checked your voltages, Jim?

Yeppers. all spot on :/

 

[mrapoc]

How about your ide settings/sata. Could the speeds/voltages or settings be incorrect on them?

 

[Toxcity]

This is confuzzling.. :eh:

Could it be drivers? I think it may be software related.

Have any emulation software? Sometimes mucks with optical drives.

 

[mrapoc]

Could be something like nero automatically overburning or something?

 

[JN]

Could be something like nero automatically overburning or something?

I'm really not sure. I think i must just be sh1t outta luck at the moment.

I managed to fix the door closing - a switch inside the drive wasn't making proper contact. So i wrapped it in tape, and now that works.

Unfortunately the drive still wont read sh1t all.

 

[nrage]

Have you got another machine to test it in?

You may just have had bad luck.. twice.. heck it has to happen to someone at some time as it's within the realms of possibility.

Or, perhaps it was damaged on shipping, did you order from the same place twice and was it shipped by the same people, and how was the packing on arrival.

I'm out of ideas.

 

[Rastalovich]

Have you got another machine to test it in?

You may just have had bad luck.. twice.. heck it has to happen to someone at some time as it's within the realms of possibility.

Or, perhaps it was damaged on shipping, did you order from the same place twice and was it shipped by the same people, and how was the packing on arrival.

I'm out of ideas.

An OS install can make it seem like u`r opticals are failing.

But I can half-bet XMS has trouble sometimes booting to the optical.

I`m not 100% sure what it is, but I do know I`ve switched 2 opticals around at home after they were spinning up/down, recognizing some cds/dvds, pretending to write to a whole disc - when it`s blatent that nothing has been done. (stick in an original driver cd and suddenly things are rosey) They worked after the switch, atleast I know they did the last time I used them. 1 machine still doesn`t like booting to it sometimes.

I do blame my media too, I have a batch of rewriteable things and it seems the older they are, the less likely they`ll behave in some units.

 

[Mr. Smith]

pci frequency too high? Causes sata issues...

Mobo kerput?

 

[Lord Ward]

2 DVD-RW 2 weeks??? impressive

LW