Dodge DVD drive??

[oshta]

my acer DVD drive keeps "cutting out" - is fine for abit but after half a CD od reading it starts to make clunking noises and stop reading proberly - becomes slow as half the time its "cut out" - the get worse till soon it stoped all together!!

- are there and Cd drive "fittnes" test - like to ones you can get for HDD??

thanks daniel

[5cupa]

well theres a few programs like sandra etc that u can test your cdrom etc. i presume you;ve run a lense cleaner through it to make sure

[oshta]

urrrm - lense cleaner :S

and that would be as in screen wipe type thing or some software?

[XTR]

urrrm - lense cleaner :S

and that would be as in screen wipe type thing or some software?

ya can buy special lense cleaner discs... ya put them in ya drive... they usually have a few audio tracks on... listen to them... and hopefully ya drive is fine

[Shogun]

It does sound like a dirty lense as it stops reading the dvds. I take it you have tried other dvds in it?

[oshta]

yeah - and not only DVD, its the same with all CDs - ok I'll try a lense cleaner ASAP - if it doest work i might just buy i new one, can it always was noisy and it has huge spin down times - after about 5mins it slows right down but doest stop totaly for another 10mins after that

[unrealrocks]

I get this with some disks, my reason is just because mines getting old and its having trouble tracking newer CDRs (I've had it since before 1x CDRWters existed) but yours sounds like a dirty lens.

[blue..matt]

CD lense cleaners cost what ????....8 - 10 quid

a new cheap DVD reader costs ?????..... 20 quid

i know what i would do, ditch the older DVD drive, get a new 1 with 1 year warrenty etc

[blue..matt]

oh and sell your old drive on ebay, explain the problem, people will of course think

"are the lense is dirty, but the guy dont know" pay you 10 quid for it, thinking your the fool for not knowing the lense is dirty,

but you are not the fool, as you got your nice new and i expect faster dvd drive working away

you cannot go wrong

[oshta]

lol - i like your style!!!

and it is only a 40x 10x, which is annoying with x40 CD-RW (CD-RW has to wait for the CD!!!)

and its dam noisy!! - now i'll just have to convince my DAD!! to make with the cash

[spazman]

you dont have a spare £20?