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Isaac Peterson
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| Posted on Sunday, January 11, 2004 - 11:45 am: |
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OK, My computer is a HP Pavilion xt963, one of the computers specially sold at Wal-Mart. It is about 2 years old and I've had a problem with cd-rw's ever since I bought it. When I first got it, the cd-rw that came with it ran fine. Then about a month later, the cd-rw would seem to struggle to read a cd, then act as if there was nothing in the drive. The first time it started doing that, it would work about 20% percent of the time. A week or two later it seemed like 5%. It seemed to decay over time.
Well then I put the cd-rw into another computer and it worked fine. I put a brand new Philips cd-rw in and it worked great...at first. The same problem happened. I put in a Creative brand 32x normal cd drive in and it has been working fine. I tried switching bays and cables but the same problem occurred. I tried uninstalling it, taking it out then reinstalling it, and it still would not work at all.
When I put in a cd, it makes some noise like its moving the eye around, then it tries to spin the cd, but it can't. Sometimes it will carry on for a minute and sometimes for 10 seconds. Well I hope I put in enough detail for you. Maybe someone can help me.
Isaac
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Mike
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| Posted on Monday, January 12, 2004 - 09:34 pm: |
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Make sure your Power Supply is big enough to handle everything, should be at least 250 to 350 watts. The one you have maybe failing.
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Gary
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| Posted on Wednesday, January 14, 2004 - 09:35 pm: |
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Also, I just had the same problem with an older machine, thought that the power supply was failing, so I put another one in "250 watt" That didn't do it, so I formatted my drive, thinking maybe windows messed up? That didn't help, so I tried another burner, same thing when I tried to use it, the computer would lock up...Anyway, long story short, My Mobo cashed in. I found a used BCM I had laying around & everything works fine again. Just a thought???
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Isaac
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| Posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 04:31 pm: |
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Thanks for the feedback, I was wanting to get a new mobo anyway. The burner started to fail a month after I bought the PC package, and I had made no hardware modifications, so I don't think it would be the powersupply and it failing so soon.
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