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Repair DVD-rom?
Name: butte009 Date: October 23, 2006 at 13:17:52 Pacific OS: WinXP Home CPU/Ram: ? Product: HP
Comment:
My friend has a DVD-rom drive that's not working. At first the drive would read cd's but not eject. I told her to use the good old paper-clip method. Things worked fine for about a month. But now the drive won't read cds nor open. I swapped the power connector with the one hooked up to the harddrive. The DVD-rom still doesn't work. I put in an old dvd drive for now, but was just wondering if this is something repairable with the drive.... I like to tinker. :) It's a Philips 16x/10x/40x/10 IDE cd-recordable/rewritable drive; p/n PHCDD5101/43 Thanks!
Name: Richard59 Date: October 23, 2006 at 13:35:54 Pacific
Reply:
Cleaning the laser lens may restore it's read/write function but there's not much else you could achieve. Buy a new drive. You'll get one for less than half the cost of getting a tech to effect repairs.
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Response Number 2
Name: XpUser Date: October 24, 2006 at 05:04:49 Pacific
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