Mark,

I am assuming that you use Win95.  If so, you might try this: Go to My
Computer, Control Panel, System, Device select the CDrom and select
properties.  Check that the CDrom is *NOT* selected for syncronizing data
transfer.

Apparently this selection is designed to allow faster >24x? Cdroms to load
some older software or at least a different standard.  I was unable to load
the drivers for a Canon Printer and tried to get Canon to replace the CDrom.
They informed me of the selection and told me that the Canon CD would not
work unless this was selected to slow down my CD.  [I was not impressed],
and I noticed that it affected the machine performance overall to have this
selected.

Mike Buraczewski
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Rode <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sunday, September 06, 1998 5:25 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] CD ROM problems


|I have bench marked this CD drive with Norton utilities and EZ CD Creator
|Deluxe and it tests out just a little bit better then my six speed Teac. I
|just wrote this off to a inexpensive no name drive but now another problem
|has developed.
|
|Sometimes when installing a program or copying directories   I hear
|clicking noises and the process takes an inordinate time or fails
|completely...even causing my PC to crash.
|
|Is it time to try to get an exchange ....probably more hassle then it's
|worth ....or is there something I could try first?
|
|Thanks for the help!
|mark

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