Lite-On burners really suck!!!

[Mark]

Well not really, but Iv'e had bad luck with burners ever since I can remember. Back in 99 I bought a Creative 4224 CDRW drive. It worked great for about 3 months, then all of a sudden, every audio cd I made ended up having this awful static in the songs nearing the end of the disc. As the cd went on, the noise would get louder and louder in each track. I thought the drive was a dud so I sent it back to Creative, got a new one in return. Same thing happens to it 5 months later, same exact problem. After that happened, I knew it was most likely just a sh*tty drive so a I bought a Lite-On 24/10/40 burner about 2 months ago. Now believe it or not the same thing is happening with this one. Luckily I saved the reciept and box so I can just take it back and get a Plextor but my question is, does anyone know why this might be happening? There has to be a reason. My theory on this is the lens is getting dirty with dust particles because when the last Creative drive started doing this, I physically opened it up, cleaned the lens, put it back together and made a few working cd's without static but that was only temporary because the problem only returned. Any help would be appreciated on this.

 

[AlastorX82]

Obviously its not the burner's fault. It's an incompetent case builder. (you)

 

[Mark]

^^^Mind explaining that?

 

[FuManStan]

Why is your topic Lite-On burners suck when you had the same problem with Creative's drives? Anyway, if this happened with 3 straight drives then your case is probably somewhere thats attracting lots of dust, or your leaving the drive open or something. You said yourself that its probably dust, so why blame Lite-On?

 

[Soccerman]

he's attracting attention (duh) to help people pay attention..

sheesh. now, one thing u didn't mention is what media you used. I know it's a long shot, but if you used the same media throughout all this, that could be the problem.

 

[Mark]

Well that's a good question. I bought this cheap stuff at Fry's yesterday called "GQ(which stands for Great Quality, my ass) 1-24x compatible" but I have heard that these drives aren't supposed to have problems writing on cheaper media. I was using Verbatrim before and never really had a problem. And to think I bought 3 50 packs of this crap. Ill get some cdr's from the neighbors later(they use Imation I believe) and ill see what happens.





Oh one other thing, I noticed if I put these audio cd's in my CDROM and play them, they sound fine but in any other stereo, I get the static.

 

[fishingeek]

NEVER buy cheap media. Just watch for deals and get the good stuff.

 

[Gomce]

Mark really sucks !!!

 

[Seeko]

This thread should be removed. Obviously the poster is a bonehead. Get a clue guy. Your putting blame where it doesn't belong. Blame your ineptitude.

 

[Bovinicus]

You shouldn't make topics like that. As you can see, you have angered many fellow forum goers. Anyway, if your case is on the floor, I would suggest putting it on top of something about the height of a phonebook. Those few inches of elevation off the ground greatly reduce the amount of dust that a case sucks in.

 

[extro]

Uh-oh, looks like the Lite-On sect is declaring a jihad on you.

Get one of of those CD cleaner disks or a can of compressed air and try cleaning the thing. Quit smoking, and vacuum and dust around the computer once in a while.

 

[Pharmdeity]

I agree the poster shouldn't blame anyone but himself. I have had a Lite On Burner for over 6 months and love it. It always burns my media at higher speeds than they're rated for (even the cheap stuff).

 

[mulciber]

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[DARRIN]

If you have more fans sucking air in than blowing air out you are creating negative pressure inside your case and it will pull air in through everywhere including your CD Rom and floppy drives causing them to get dirty inside quicker.

 

[SilentRunning]

If you have more fans sucking air in than blowing air out


Isn't that positive pressure?? More air put in than is removed. At least thats what firefighters call it.

 

[IgoByte]

Mark,

I understand you anger with your current LiteOn drive, but you should really edit your thread's title to more accurately reflect your problems...
If two Creative drives did the same thing as the LiteOn, it's only logical to conclude that you may be at fault. I can tell you that Creative drives suck, but the LiteOn units have shown very promising results. I bought my girlfriend a refurb 16x LiteOn, and although the tray was opening and closing pretty slowly, the drive itself seemed pretty good. I haven't encountered the problem you describe with any of my CDRW drives, and I go back to 2x. I use TDK and Imation media and have always been happy. Your media might be at fault here, but that too seems unlikely because you probably were using that same media while you were making good burns.

Can't really think of much else.

 

[DARRIN]

SilentRunning - you are correct. My brain is not working this morning. I ment to say more fans sucking out than blowing in.

 

[smp]

Okay okay everyone. He says that he's burning audio CD's.. my guess is that it isn't a hardware problem at all, not dust, not bad media either. What software are you suing to extract the audio and how do you have your cables set up? Are you doing straight copies from a CD or are you burning MP3's or what? If you are copying CD's from one drive to the other and they are on the same cable that could be it. Of course, I don't do that, I use EAC and it's what I swear by, as do many other people. If you aren't doing true digital audio extraction then that might be your problem. Now, I know you said that this only happens after a few months, but maybe there is some mistake and it's only when you started noticing it, or something. It could be dust too, but I never heard of dust making crappy CD's.. I would just think that it would stop working, three burners in a row that write garbled CD's and not just coasters, I don't know, that's pretty strange to me.

Uh-oh, looks like the Lite-On sect is declaring a jihad on you.

That is the funniest thing I've heard in a long time. Very appropriate for these forums.. you'd think that everyone here worked for their favourite company, be it AMD, Plextor, Lito-on or Intel.. jeez.

 

[CocaCola5]

<< Anyway, if your case is on the floor, I would suggest putting it on top of something about the height of a phonebook. Those few inches of elevation off the ground greatly reduce the amount of dust that a case sucks in. >>





Best to put it on a table, from my experience, anywhere 6 inches or less away from the carpet is still dusty.

 

[ucdnam]

It could be media as I've used cheap media before and my audio cds has popping and weird sounds during and between tracks.

 

[Soccerman]

ya SMP might have something there. I honestly don't have a CDROM that crapped out becuase of dust (just one that seems to have problem reading CDs that are scratched, it's an old 8x Creative).

what DO u use to burn the audio CDs? are data CDs still readeable? could you try it in a different computer? can u play audio CDs ok? how is your drive connected? u should probably make sure that the connectors are on solid..

even software sounds like a far fetched cause, but you never know..

 

[Submit]

What cd player are you using to playback your cd's? Maybe it is going bad? A cd player, in a car I used to have, would get "goofy" after it warmed up...Did you try different burning software? Different media?