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Do DVD Drives just die without notice?
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| kotsy |
I set a DVD to rip last night and when I woke up in the morning and put the blank DVD in to burn it wouldn't detect. I quickly noticed that it now won't read or write any discs at all.
Assuming that it might be a corrupt winblowz problem, I tried booting to the windows xp installation cd but it couldn't detect that either? Do drives just die like that, without any warning? I've burned a minimum of 2,000 discs in the last 2 years with it.. is that enough to kill it?
I just always assummed it would start struggling for awhile and then die after that. |
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| VolumE_TO |
i'd say 2,000 would be enough to kill it... i could be wrong
DVD drives tend to be less concerned with your emotions than sick Family members... mine have never had final words with me before they went. |
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| ak87 |
i would say shes gone to a better place
ironically my cd-burner from 2000 still works
but my dvd burner just over 2 years of age ted out on me |
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| kotsy |
| quote: | Originally posted by ak87
i would say shes gone to a better place
ironically my cd-burner from 2000 still works
but my dvd burner just over 2 years of age ted out on me |
do the lights on it still flash making it look like it's working.. but it just doesn't register on the computer |
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| MaxTO |
| a faulty cable could also be the culprit |
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| Minhaj |
| funny some guy was at factory direct on collage today with the same problem |
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| kotsy |
| quote: | Originally posted by Minhaj
funny some guy was at factory direct on collage today with the same problem |
did he end up buying a new drive too? |
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| Minhaj |
| quote: | Originally posted by kotsy
did he end up buying a new drive too? |
yea i think so |
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| Orko |
| Yup, they die all the time. From my experiences, they are the first thing to let go in a system, and the part that I have replace most often, no matter what brand I buy. |
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| cenik |
| It's possible; but in your case the answer is no b/c you noticed it not working ;) |
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| exstasie |
| quote: | Originally posted by Orko
Yup, they die all the time. From my experiences, they are the first thing to let go in a system, and the part that I have replace most often, no matter what brand I buy. |
+1
Thats actually happeend before where my laptop wouldn't recognize my external DVD Burner.
Some times if i restarted my laptop after a few times it would actually recognize it, but then it just died. So got an exchange somehow (can't remember where or why) but got a new one.
It's been like 3-4 years and so far so good. Every once in a while (1/15 tries) the burn will fail and ruin a DVD-DL which sucks big time! But what can you do. |
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| activate |
I've had drives just crap out like that before.
it happens. and considering the use you got out of it, you got a good one that lasted! |
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