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Name: acroman56
Date: December 14, 2002 at 14:33:27 Pacific
OS: Windows XP
CPU/Ram: P4 1.8Ghz/512Mb
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i have a strange DVD drive problem, some DVDs eg. games and movies work perfectly but others (mainly cover DVD's from magazines) sometimes cause the PC to crash for no discernable reason. by the way its a samsung DVD-ROM SD-616. thanks in advance :)



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Name: Demonhunt
Date: December 14, 2002 at 15:58:18 Pacific
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Have you tried upgrading the firmware?


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Name: acroman56
Date: December 15, 2002 at 04:06:58 Pacific
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demonhunt - i tried but couldn't find any updates for it, firmware or otherwise. the gits looks like no-one supports it any more



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