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Evening guys and gals,

I have just installed a DVD RW and it won`t work? It is a dvdrw drw-1s81, which is same as the liteon 8x DVD RW, but without the badge.

Once installed I get two new players, one says DVDRW DRW-1s81 the other says Generic DVD-ROM SCSI Cd Rom Device, neither of which pick up a DVD+RW when inserted!!

Anyone got any advise or wisdom they would like to share as to why this has happened, I have tried disabling, each devise in turn but this makes no difference, I have turned the PC of with the disc in the tray and it still won`t pick it up.

Thanks in advance

PS Happy Easter one and all

the lite-on dvd rw drives have a very high failure rate, so it may be worth testing it in another machine, if it`s the same i`d swap it for another drive. it`s a very weird problem you have tho, may not not be the drive thats causing it :/

This item was edited on Sunday, 11th April 2004, 11:12

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the lit-on dvd rw drives have a very high failure rate

At last someone who agrees with me about these drives in general (had 100% fail on a batch of these at work 5 years back).

"Great chunks of my past detaching themselves like melting icebergs"


Bigger on the inside

This item was edited on Sunday, 11th April 2004, 11:23

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At last someone who agrees with me about these drives in general (had 100% fail on a batch of these at work 5 years back).

"These drives in general"? People are talking about different products here. The consensus on the current Lite-On drives seems to be:

CD-RW and DVD-ROM: Very good
DVD-RW: Crap

You won`t find much disagreement there.

As for the older Lite-On drives (presumably one specific model of CD-ROM in your case) - they may well have been dire, but 5 years is a long time in computer hardware. What were AMD processors like 5 years ago? ;)

Mike

the early lite on cd drives where bobins, but they seem fine now (had a couple myself :) ) it`s the dvd rw units that have probs now :/

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What were AMD processors like 5 years ago?

Quite good pound for pound as I remember :) I had a little K6-233 that did me nicely for a long time! Scary thing is that 2Ghz + now seems sluggish at times...

Based on my own experiences - I wont ever put a lite-on drive in any PC of mine or asked to purchase\install.

To each his own however. :)

"Great chunks of my past detaching themselves like melting icebergs"


Bigger on the inside

This item was edited on Monday, 12th April 2004, 09:46

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Evening guys and gals,

I have just installed a DVD RW and it won`t work? It is a dvdrw drw-1s81, which is same as the liteon 8x DVD RW, but without the badge.

Once installed I get two new players, one says DVDRW DRW-1s81 the other says Generic DVD-ROM SCSI Cd Rom Device, neither of which pick up a DVD+RW when inserted!!

Anyone got any advise or wisdom they would like to share as to why this has happened, I have tried disabling, each devise in turn but this makes no difference, I have turned the PC of with the disc in the tray and it still won`t pick it up.

Thanks in advance

PS Happy Easter one and allDid you resolve your problem?

Are the jumper settings the same at the back of your drive as the one you replaced? (I believe they should be set to `slave`.)

I had problems with mine till I used an older type ide cable and set the DVD RW to slave. Also once installed you must remember to right click the D: Drive (Where D: = your drive letter) and select use with DLA