Darth_Fluffy
Gawd
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- Aug 15, 2004
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It's the DL+-RW drive, and I was trying to erase a cd-rw on it the other day. When it was hooked up to my old machine (466 celeron @ 567). Halfway through it; it gave me some sort of a calibration error, and from that point on it refused to work at all. Doesn't read anything doesn't erase, or write. When attempting to read something, it makes floppy drive sounds (tap! tap! tap!). Plugging it into my new machine (3200+"cg" clawhammer @ 2.4) yeilds exact same results.
The trouble is, NEC is a shitty company, and they don't have any kind of warranty for their optical drives. The store's warranty has run out long ago, as it was indeed working properly before the incident. Anything I could do to fix it? Or at least, anyone know why this happens? My old computer killed it's original cdrom drive (or it died on it's own, I'll never know..) Either way, that 40x asus drive no longer works. It kind-of killed the cd-rw drive as well, althought that one still works. It works very poorly (it's maximum write speed is now about 1.2x, as opposed to 48x it was advertised as). Reads just fine, though, and erases rewritables, etc, even re-writes at up to 12x (which is indeed, it's rated maximum speed).
The trouble is, NEC is a shitty company, and they don't have any kind of warranty for their optical drives. The store's warranty has run out long ago, as it was indeed working properly before the incident. Anything I could do to fix it? Or at least, anyone know why this happens? My old computer killed it's original cdrom drive (or it died on it's own, I'll never know..) Either way, that 40x asus drive no longer works. It kind-of killed the cd-rw drive as well, althought that one still works. It works very poorly (it's maximum write speed is now about 1.2x, as opposed to 48x it was advertised as). Reads just fine, though, and erases rewritables, etc, even re-writes at up to 12x (which is indeed, it's rated maximum speed).