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I have had a TDK CD-R/W drive for several years, and I just got a Sony DVD/CD-R drive a couple months ago. So it was working fine until a couple days ago, when I was watching a DVD on the new drive. I guess it hit a scratch and it froze the whole thing up. I waited a while for it to read it, but nothing happened and it wouldn't eject, so I shut the whole thing down with the task manager and ejected the disc.
Ever since then this drive has been absolutely terrible. It can barely read anything, and when it writes, the buffer keeps fluctuating from 0%-100%, and it takes about 7 minutes to burn a CD at full speed (supposedly 40x). I ran some diagnostics on it, and on my old still-functional TDK drive for comparison. Here's how they came out.
For the record, I've got 500 mb ram and a nearly 2ghz processor, and I'm running Windows 2000. Also, I have run AVG for viruses and Ad-Aware and Spybot. I've also shut down the computer, unplugged it, and even removed and re-installed the drive to see if it would reset anything. So far nothing has worked.
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Haven't messed with the drivers. I'll try that. Feels like a physical problem, but then I'm not very smart, so I wouldn't be surprised if I was wrong.
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Wow, TMedina. You are, according to the best available evidence, the man. I don't know why a scratched DVD suddenly made my drive want some new drivers, but apparently that's what happened. Seems to be working fine now. Muchas gracias. Posts: 2804 | Registered: May 2003
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