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Should I Be Concerned About This?
i have 2 burner drives one a dvd combi and the other which is giving me the problems is the cd burner 48x. it does what its there for burn cd's and plays them but it is started recently to make the most irregular noises. it does it somethimes when i put in a cd, software or games (and there perfectly good cds) the noises sound like there could be something at fault inside, but it works and it burns and plays cd's fine. should i leave it as it is. or contact dell.
Dell 8400
XP Home
250GB Hard DISK
ATI RADEON X800 XT 256mb
HL-ST-DT CD-RW GCE-8483b (CD BURNER DRIVE THATS CAUSING ME PROBLEMS)
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Posted June 12th, 2005 14:00
I changed out both the drives that came with my PC to DVD/CD combo writers, so I took one of the CD burners that was removed, bought an IDE to USB connector, built a case and use it as an external USB drive.It too will make very unusual clicking noises when accessing or writing to a CDR or CDRW disc, but only if it is a disk that I have written to previously. Commercially pressed disks, or CDR/CDRW that have never been written to are quiet and smooth. It still reads and burns fine, but there is defintely some strange sounds coming from it on certain disks. This has been happening for 6 months now and the drive is still going.424
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Posted June 12th, 2005 15:00
If it has been working Ok for that long, I am out of ideas ...424
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Posted June 12th, 2005 20:00
Hi MDM,
Open the case and make sure the drive is seated firmly in the cage. Also, have you used a disc with a label and any chance it may have come off inside the drive, you can try to view the inside of the drive with the tray open? If you are under warranty, please contact Dell to discuss the issue as well.
I checked Dell site, currently they do not have a firmware yupdate for the drive.
Best Regards
God, grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway,
the good fortune to run into the ones I do
and the eyesight to tell the difference.
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origamimark
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Posted June 12th, 2005 13:00
In my experience anything other than a quiet hum coming from a PC is cause for concern.
What kind of noise it it ? buzzing, scraping, rattling, clanking ?
Has it always done this or just recently started exhibiting this behaviour ? If it's a new fault, have you been fiddling inside the machine ?
Could be something has worked loose inside the machine, but may indicate a faulty or failing motor for example. If it were my machine, I would have the side off and have a look - taking all the precautions necessary to avoid electric shock of course. If you don't feel up to that, get a Dell engineer to look at it. Don't blow yourself up !
Regards
Mark