Computer help please

[GR81]

hahaha, very funny... i did actually work at PB Tech (Hamilton), but got bored with that... still trying to find something interesting... so far, the next best thing is sitting at home on the benefit answering threads like this one... and going riding around when I have money...

madness... one of our customers

[ZeroIndex]

thats a workaround, not a fix, do you actually know what was causing the problem?

it's one of those 'certain brand of cd doesn't like a certain cd-rom/dvd-rom'

I may not have fixed the CD, but I did get installed... surely that counts, or is it not good enough?

[Sniper]

Sounds like a disc incompatibility error. Does the PC freeze at all?

[John Banks]

viola (not the musical instrument :slap: )

Viola is the musical instrument. I believe voila is what you are after.

[ZeroIndex]

Sounds like a disc incompatibility error. Does the PC freeze at all?

Nah, it just does the change from ...my computer... 'DVD-RW Drive (D: )' to 'CD Drive (D: )'


I've had that happen to me before though...

[ZeroIndex]

Viola is the musical instrument. I believe voila is what you are after.

hence why i said

( not the musical instrument :slap: )

but yeah, thanks for finding the correct spelling (which i normally do, but couldn't be stuffed)

[Lias]

Chances are it's just media incompatibility with a cheap drive.

What he said.. If the laptop is only 6 months old, I'd be hitting up the manufacturers for a replacement optical drive, because it will only get worse.. As drives age and die they tend to get progressivly shittier at reading (ie the tolerance of the laser gets smaller and smaller).

M-T and I used to work in R&D for an evil empire (no not THE evil empire) and test hardware all day long for compatability and such so we both have at least half a clue what were talking about when it comes to diagnosing PC issues

[ZeroIndex]

What he said.. If the laptop is only 6 months old, I'd be hitting up the manufacturers for a replacement optical drive, because it will only get worse.. As drives age and die they tend to get progressivly shittier at reading (ie the tolerance of the laser gets smaller and smaller).

M-T and I used to work in R&D for an evil empire (no not THE evil empire) and test hardware all day long for compatability and such so we both have at least half a clue what were talking about when it comes to diagnosing PC issues

The laptop reads the disk fine, it's one of those multimedia-black-with-millions-of-blue-lights-on-the-front Packard Bells (Athlon64) that doesn't read the disk in the DVD-RW