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DVD Burner dead?
Name: dookiak Date: February 21, 2005 at 12:08:07 Pacific OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: 512 DDR
Comment:
I've been using my DVD burner a lot lately, and now it seems that for it to read a disc, it takes a long time. If I try to copy a disc, it takes nearly 6 hours. Burning time seems normal, but copying is outrageous. Its an 8X Lite-On burner, sohw-802s. Anyone have any ideas? Can the burner just burn out... at even less than 100 burns total?
Name: puppet1984 Date: February 21, 2005 at 12:40:51 Pacific
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had this problem myself. have you tried updating your drives frimware. the dye on the dvd's could of changed
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Response Number 2
Name: dookiak Date: February 21, 2005 at 14:37:33 Pacific
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I've looked all over, and from what I've found, there is no firmware updates for my drive. I don't know if you know somewhere else I can look, but from what I know it isn't a firmware issue. Any other ideas?
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Response Number 3
Name: dookiak Date: February 21, 2005 at 15:59:49 Pacific
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Oh, and this is what I read before, I found it now.
"Lite-On SOHW-802S, no firmware available (OEM drive for Dell PCs)"
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Response Number 4
Name: OtheHill Date: February 21, 2005 at 20:32:54 Pacific
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Try downloading the firmware for the SOHW-812S. When you open that firmware package it automatically scans your system for compatible drives. I opened it looking for a readme file and instead it told me there were no compatible drives in my system and then listed each of my three optical drives. Only one of them is a Liteon.
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