- Jul 29, 2004
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Hey everyone, I need some help here:
Within the last couple weeks I've all the sudden been unable to read or write to CD's of any type (ROM, -R, -RW) in my plextor px-708a (firmware 1.06). The strange thing is that it reads and writes DVDs (+R, +RW) just fine. When I put in a cd, the light blinks amber twice, but won't spin up. Clicking on the drive in windows explorer shows an empty folder. And nero infodrive says that no disk is inserted. Could this be a power supply issue? Are there separate lasers for the CD and DVD and the CD one went bad?
The drive is only 6 months old.
My system:
Gigabyte 8p1000 GT mobo (i865G)
Intel Pentium 4 @ 2.6 ghz stock
Maxtor 80GB HD
1 GB pc3200 crucial ram
350 watt generic ps
evga 6800 NU graphics
(the optical mentioned above)
windows xp pro sp1
Thanks for the help!
Within the last couple weeks I've all the sudden been unable to read or write to CD's of any type (ROM, -R, -RW) in my plextor px-708a (firmware 1.06). The strange thing is that it reads and writes DVDs (+R, +RW) just fine. When I put in a cd, the light blinks amber twice, but won't spin up. Clicking on the drive in windows explorer shows an empty folder. And nero infodrive says that no disk is inserted. Could this be a power supply issue? Are there separate lasers for the CD and DVD and the CD one went bad?
The drive is only 6 months old.
My system:
Gigabyte 8p1000 GT mobo (i865G)
Intel Pentium 4 @ 2.6 ghz stock
Maxtor 80GB HD
1 GB pc3200 crucial ram
350 watt generic ps
evga 6800 NU graphics
(the optical mentioned above)
windows xp pro sp1
Thanks for the help!