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September 9th, 2003, 09:47 PM
#1
CD-r/w malfunction need help with diagnosis
I have a MSI CR52-A2 cd-r/w. I'm not sure what the problem is the drive will not recognize disks and if a disk is present in the drive at boot up the led flashes green and red until the disk is removed and boot up resumes normally. Please send any suggestions my way.
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September 9th, 2003, 09:54 PM
#2
Is this an old drive or a new one? If it's older, you might want to try cleaning it with a cd lens cleaner which can be purchased at any computer store or local Radio Shack.
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September 9th, 2003, 09:57 PM
#3
New and clean.
Actually it's fairly new and this is a recent problem. While burninga disk the system locked up and when I rebooted that's the way it was.
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September 9th, 2003, 10:08 PM
#4
Is your BIOS set to boot from the cd drive first? That could be your problem if it is. It's looking for a windows disk. This is sort of like when you set computer to boot to floppy first. Might take a peek in BIOS and see, change it to boot to HDD first.
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September 9th, 2003, 10:42 PM
#5
Good thought
Thank u that was a good idea unfortunatly the problem persists.
The drive won't even spin up, and there is no tech support avaliable from msi. When you put a disk in it flashes green a few times then red once back to green then stops without even spinning up.
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September 9th, 2003, 10:56 PM
#6
Have you per chance changed cdr brands? Cdrw's can be pickey as to what brands they will work with.
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September 9th, 2003, 10:59 PM
#7
Changed Brands
Yeah I noticed thanky you however it won't spin up any disk at all I'm afraid it's probably a problem with the drive it self any software you know of that would allow me to look at the post for the cdrw would be helpful or anyother advice you might have.
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September 9th, 2003, 11:00 PM
#8
Train that was my next suggestion. I too had problems with different cdrw disks. I now or then (when I had my xp computer) use only Imation disks. They seemed to work better than even Memorex.
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September 9th, 2003, 11:03 PM
#9
If nothing works after our suggestions, I would suggest you look into a new drive, one particular brand we here at vdr seem to like is LiteOn. Pretty reasonable in price too. Last one I bought cost me $43 and that was last fall. Oh and www.newegg.com is good place to look at them.
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September 9th, 2003, 11:06 PM
#10
I was afraid of that
That's what I was afraid of, but your probably right. If you have any other ideas let me know. I'm not giving up yet
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September 9th, 2003, 11:12 PM
#11
Lostchild
Did you install it and is it a primary slave or secondary master
I prefer to set up my writter as secondary masters
Here is a test I use when checking cdr media
1. I try a commerical audio to see if it will read and play it
2. I try a commerical program disk and see if that works.
if yes in both cases then you have bad media.
if no then you have a reader gone bad, if it's taking a long time to load or read I would say its bad .the price of writter are so cheap now it's not worth the trouble to even think about
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September 9th, 2003, 11:14 PM
#12
What OS? If 98, 98SE or WinMe, go into safe Mode, device manager and check for multi installs and also see it there are any yellow splats with ! or ? marks on the cdrw. If multi installs, remove all instances of the drivers and reboot. Let windows redetect and install the drivers.
If ! or ? marks, post back.
In XP check in device manager and see if there are any ! OR ? marks. POST if you find any.
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September 9th, 2003, 11:15 PM
#13
any software you know of that would allow me to look at the post for the cdrw
Not sure what you're asking here but if it's being able to read what's on the cdrw, there is a software available for this. give a sec and I'll see if I can find it.
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September 9th, 2003, 11:16 PM
#14
Test
Thanks I have it setup as a secondary slave to my normal cdrom that didn't seem to effect it though. As far as the test goes I can't get it to even spin up any disk let alone read it. However you are right about the fact that the drive is probably toast still I wand to keep try and at least find out what's wrong with it so I don't repeat any mistakes I may have made.
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September 9th, 2003, 11:18 PM
#15
No Errors
No problems with the drivers Win 98se
Good thought though
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