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Re: DVD burners have stopped writing

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Yousuf Khan wrote
> Rod Speed wrote
>> Yousuf Khan wrote
>>> Don't have another desktop to try it with.

>> Do you dispose of your previous machines ?

> No, my basic modus operandi is to keep upgrade an existing machine until it's bleeding edge modern again.

I do too, but with the significant changes in cases and power supplys
and motherboards, I still end up with obsolete machines that can be
used to test something like the problem with CD/DVD drives.

> I do it piece by piece though,

Sometimes I do, sometimes I dont.

> disposing of individual pieces as needed.

I dont bother to dispose of them myself. Handy for testing like now in your case.

>> In theory it could be just that the lens needs cleaning if you are a smoker, but that wouldnt normally see both drive 
>> stop writing that the same time.

> No, not a smoker, but I did have a friend who used to be, and I know what you mean about things getting cloudy inside.

And you can always pick a smokers PC when you open it, the stink alone is enough.

> Also if lens that writes gets cloudy, you'd think that the read lens would too.

They are different lasers, so the write one is usually affected first.

> There's not a lot of scenarios where only one function goes, but not the other.

There is with those, the write laser is quite different to the read one.

But you'd be VERY unlikely to lose the write function
on both drives at the same time even with a smoker.

Bet the problem is the cable or what the cable plugs into at the motherboard end. 

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DVD burners have stopped writing Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-02-06 21:22 -0500
  Re: DVD burners have stopped writing "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-07 16:14 +1100
    Re: DVD burners have stopped writing Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-02-07 09:18 -0500
  Re: DVD burners have stopped writing Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-02-07 08:41 +0000
    Re: DVD burners have stopped writing Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-02-07 09:23 -0500
      Re: DVD burners have stopped writing Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-02-07 17:16 +0000
      Re: DVD burners have stopped writing "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-08 07:00 +1100
        Re: DVD burners have stopped writing Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-02-09 14:22 -0500
          Re: DVD burners have stopped writing "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-10 08:32 +1100
            Re: DVD burners have stopped writing Winniethepooh@100acrewoods.net (GMAN) - 2012-02-10 05:44 +0000
              Re: DVD burners have stopped writing "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-10 17:07 +1100
                Re: DVD burners have stopped writing Winniethepooh@100acrewoods.net (GMAN) - 2012-02-11 04:16 +0000
                Re: DVD burners have stopped writing "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-12 03:03 +1100
                Re: DVD burners have stopped writing Winniethepooh@100acrewoods.net (GMAN) - 2012-02-11 17:33 +0000
  Re: DVD burners have stopped writing Frank Williams <FWilliams@happy.com.ru> - 2012-02-08 13:15 +1300
    Re: DVD burners have stopped writing "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-08 11:55 +1100
      Re: DVD burners have stopped writing Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-02-09 14:23 -0500
        Re: DVD burners have stopped writing "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-10 08:34 +1100
  Re: DVD burners have stopped writing Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> - 2012-02-11 16:27 +1100
  Re: DVD burners have stopped writing Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-02-15 17:37 -0500
    Re: DVD burners have stopped writing "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-16 16:01 +1100

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