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Repair CD ROM Drive
Name: Lamy Date: December 1, 2003 at 13:17:23 Pacific OS: NT 4.00 CPU/Ram: PII , 128MB
Comment:
My CD ROM drive could not read some CDs. But now it cannot read any CD.
I try to clean the lens with a laser lens cleaning CD, but there was no result.
Does anybody know how to replace the laser lens or where I could find some information for that kind of repair?
Name: h4x3r Date: December 2, 2003 at 14:42:48 Pacific
Reply:
why? unless its a burner or a dvd rom it'll probally be less money and definatly less agrivation to go buy a new one, you can get them for less than 30 bucks now, and they are quite often on sale for 10 - 20 bucks at computer stores
Summary: Post 1 may have been adequate to fix the problem. Could also be a service pack problem. What service pack are you running right now? Go here: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q196/6/0...
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