Hi.

How old is the writer and which brand. It sounds more like that you writer
had his last few days in the living world. Or you can try to clean the
lenses with a lenscleaning cd. Maybe it helps maybe it don't.

Greetings, Anne

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From: "David G Nasser" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 9:20 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] CD-RW Problem


> Greetings,
>
> I've been running a self-built desktop system in my home for
> 3+ years. It is built around an Abit BH6 board, runs W2k Pro
> sp4, is generally stable.
>
> I have a couple hard drives on the first IDE channel.
>
> I have a an old Samsung SW-206 CD-RW as Master and an older
> BCD 40XH CD-ROM as slave on the second IDE channel.
>
> The CD-RW, which used to work OK will no longer recognize a
> CD volume. I insert a CD, the read light blinks, but no
> volume/files are detected. I've shuffled several CD's from
> the CD-ROM to the CD-RW: they are all recognized by the CD-
> ROM, none are recognized by the CD-RW. It's as if there were
> no CD in the CD-RW device.
>
> W2k says the CD-RW "is working properly". I have
> uninstalled/reinstalled the (Windoze) driver, and tried 3
> different ribbon cables, checking the connections very
> carefully.
>
> Not sure where to go from here. Any/all advice/suggestions
> would be much appreciated.
>
>   Cheers,
>   David
>
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