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DVD Burner issue

Hi All,

I have a Dell Dimentia 4700 with an onboard dvd/cd burner. I have yet to burn a dvd, but do use it fer cd's.

I am using it to rip cd for mp3 use and about 3 days ago it had an odd sound to it, like fan was wacked. Today I took compressor blew out whole computer, the machine is now much much quieter.

About the same time I noticed it was reading slow for ripping purposes. I noticed , But am not teckie enough to understand why , but it must have been spinning the drive a lot when not in use Two diff anto virus programs say no to virii, adaware and another find the usual assortment of crap and delete the stuff.

SO I am wondering is the drive about to croak, or is in need of a drive belt, or lube job on the motor or rails?

I believe it is a panasonic drive.

I have fixed many vcr's and a belt job shouldn't be too devastating to do. Harder to get the belt then fix it ,(usually).

any help appreciated

respond here or to

christiepontello:at:yahoo.com

please put in subject line that this isbout the dvd drive ripping.

thanks

chris

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christie punter
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DVD burners do not have belts, they are direct drive. And yes the drive probably is near the end of it's life. Plan on getting a new one soon. That's one of the EOL symptoms, reccurrent reads to get the data read off properly.

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Another EOL is that it will load a cd and not a dvd. Certain death follows.

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Meat Plow

"christie punter" wrote in message news:1175649578 snipped-for-privacy@sp6iad.superfeed.net...

Try using EAC on a brand new CD and see what happens.

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Homer J Simpson

After killing a few CD-ROM drives in past years by blowing out computers with compressed air I'm always much more careful now and usually remove the optical drives first. Doesn't take much to stir up the dust and drive it into the optical pickup, once that happens you're best off to just buy a new drive, they're not easily serviced on that level.

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James Sweet

Try cleaning the lens manually (not a cleaning disc).

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