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General Category => Tech Clinic => Topic started by: TheSurvivor on September 02, 2001, 06:51:59 AM

Title: cd-rom drive errors
Post by: TheSurvivor on September 02, 2001, 06:51:59 AM

hi I\'ve just moved in with a friend and she\'s having problems with her cd-roms. I installed a dvd-drive in the computer which runs without problems, but both the cd-rom and cd-rw give errors when installing big programs, and when running things like games. random crashes, errors on files during installation etc. I checked all settings and they seem to be fine, same with master/slave settings (unless I missed something there)
running win98 on a celeron 500 128mb ram

Title: cd-rom drive errors
Post by: wizard2010 on September 02, 2001, 09:48:08 AM

This could be a problem with
SEEK & SEARCH ?
One of my older drives began to show errors like mentioned but after a while got worse?
After running a Speed test using Nero Burn.
I seen that when the CDRW was seeking and searching it would fail the read test ???

Its one possible cause...

Just zeros & ones ???