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iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

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CD Drive/DVD Burner spontaneously quit working

Just the other day, my DVD reader/burner started acting up -- it's about 18 months old, and afaik out of warranty -- though I can't work out what's wrong or whether it's actually at fault.

Installed Flight Simulator 2004 the other week in WinXP, rebooted, attempted to play FS2004, but the dvd drive would no longer read that disc, or any. Since then, I'm sure i've watched a dvd movie on it fine, so the problem seems erratic.

Not a software problem, the drive exhibits the same behaviour under win/lin -- keeps spinning up, but never actually manages to read anything back, don't even get the disc name.

Here's the odd bit -- I tried another cable, but it still doesnt work, so it's not the cable. Tried another drive that is known to work, it failed with the same symptoms... repeatedly spinning up, but never actually reading anything.

Any suggestions as to the cause or possible solutions? I'm itching to get Arch64 installed

I'm about to try on another IDE channel...

Last edited by iphitus (2007-12-14 09:36:16)

iphitus

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Re: CD Drive/DVD Burner spontaneously quit working

Tried other IDE channel, which is also a third and definitely fine IDE cable but no luck there. HDD on that channel works fine, but neither DVD drive works. BIOS settings look fine.

iphitus

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Re: CD Drive/DVD Burner spontaneously quit working

seems my IDE hdd isnt coming up either, suggestions?

Last edited by iphitus (2007-12-14 10:41:38)

iphitus

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Re: CD Drive/DVD Burner spontaneously quit working

old drive spontaneously working again.

iphitus

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Re: CD Drive/DVD Burner spontaneously quit working

ok, old drive didnt spontaneously work, i had the wrong jumpers on it. So it looks like my good drive is bust.

Second Pioneer that's died on me. First one was DOA, this one has died just out of warranty.

iphitus

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Re: CD Drive/DVD Burner spontaneously quit working

Clueless now, the old drive is exhibiting the problem erratically. Just reboot a few times and eventually it works.

Has anyone got any idea what the problem could be here? both the drives? motherboard?

Last edited by iphitus (2007-12-15 10:11:09)

Leigh

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From: USA

Registered: 2004-06-25

Posts: 533

Re: CD Drive/DVD Burner spontaneously quit working

Just a shot in the dark, but when I first set up my system I had a lot of problems, mostly with video cards, but not limited to just that. cd and dvd writer would sometimes not work. Everything was just speratic, working only sometimes. Finally I discovered I was having device/irq conflicts due to my bios. experimenting with kernel paremeters finally solved it. The magic one for me was pci=conf1

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