I have not changed the drive yet and it is still powered up and still making noise every couple of minutes. New drive on order, ordered a NEC 3550 even though in the past have not liked NEC stuff but my last Pioneer was/is a disappointment.
hohoho At 12:23 AM 12/9/2005, warpmedia Poked the stick with: >Could the lens be so dirty that it's extending up to & contacting the disc >trying to focus? Can't think of any other simple reason for lens to contact >disc. > >FORC5 wrote: >>I have a customer box here with a bad DVD burner in it, weird noises and the >>heads mark the disk when inserted, customer leaves a cdr in the drive all the >>time, I'm thinking it just wore itself out by occasionally trying to access >>the disk ( spinning up ) >>Is this a possible explanation ? >>fp > >-- >Tallyho ! ]:8) >Taglines below ! >-- >Let your mouth write no check that your tail can't cash.
