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Hi, everyone!
Tell me something. Are laptop cd drives supposed to be crappy or is it just mine? I have a compaq presario 1670 with Windows 98 second edition and I don;t use the cd drive very often but when I do, I can only use it for short periods of time because it overheats very quickly and stops working until it cools down again.
Anyone who has had this problem, please put a post on here to tell me your experiences.
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The only prob I have had with a laptop rom drive was a dvd-rom on my old HP laptop. The spring inside under the eye poped off because it was hot glued onto the plastic instead of bounded on with thermal compond and because of that it prevented my eye from moving correctly on the rails. I later found out that HP put in some el-cheapo sanyo DVD Rom.
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I've found most laptop CD Drives in my experience to be rather crappy.
I suppose the best solution (if you can afford it) is to get an external USB drive, which is something I might have to look into myself!
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It's all about the cheap plastic components inside the CDROM that deforms over time by the generated heat from the laptop.
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That laptop is pretty old. It has a 350MHz AMD CPU and you're running WIN98SE.
I'm surprised that the CDROM is still running.
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Badboy, It does run, but only for short periods of time. I've actually taken a peek inside the laptop and the way it was set out was that the laptop was actually using the cd drive as a heat sink! I was disgusted when I found that out. Anyway, Alex2002, I've been thinking of getting an external cd drive for a while now, I've just gotta save up some pocket money to buy one! :)
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Is there good airflow around the CDROM/heatsink? Maybe dust etc has accumulated over time making it less efficient.
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There was any dust at all when I iopen up the laptop. I don't think there's very good air flow, all the same. That's why it over heats all the time, it's not just the cd drive, it's also the whole computer. I might go on it for about an hour or so, just web browsing, and it actually starts to get really hot on my lap. It's nice in winter, but summer's coming along! :(
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I mean there wasn't any dust when I opened the computer.
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