03-15-2006, 09:38 PM
Grarrrg,Mar 15 2006, 05:16 PM Wrote:So, for those of you who know anything is this a common enough occurance, or shall I need to purchase a new CD drive in the near future?A Samsung CDRW drive of mine did something similar. When it would try to read a CD, it would spin up in very distinct phases.
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The drive was only a year old at the time, and had worked admirably until then. It never spun up spontaneously though. My solution was to rip it out of my case and buy a new one, since CDRW drives and now DVDR drives are pretty cheap.
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