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 Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 1:35 am Post subject: Replace laser in CD/DVD drive? |
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Well I have this drive here.. it absolutely refuses to read/write DVDs anymore, but a CD will work fine. It's not a driver issue, it just stopped one day after failing to burn a video properly. So onto my question(s)
I'm told you can replace the laser in the drive, is this true?
If yes, where could I get a replacement one? Googling has given results about xbox drives.
Info if it's needed; (tell me if more is required?)
Model: DH-16W1P12C
S/N: 333714402744
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Why don't you just buy another Drive.
They're cheap, and it doesn't require any custom work.
All you gotta do is Plug in the SATA cable and Power..
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| Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 1:41 am Post subject: |
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| iTz SWAT wrote: | Why don't you just buy another Drive.
They're cheap, and it doesn't require any custom work.
All you gotta do is Plug in the SATA cable and Power.. |
For the learning experience? I prefer to fix shit rather than just replace the whole thing. And it's an IDE drive.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 3:35 am Post subject: |
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| Id buy a new drive, and then experiment with the old ones. A dvd drive cannot have a "lack of drivers" as optical drives are plug and play.
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| Hero wrote: | | Id buy a new drive, and then experiment with the old ones. A dvd drive cannot have a "lack of drivers" as optical drives are plug and play. |
So you're telling me this Uninstall button here won't cause the device to stop working if I use it and don't reboot? Please - confirm shit before you post.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 5:36 am Post subject: |
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| SF wrote: | | Hero wrote: | | Id buy a new drive, and then experiment with the old ones. A dvd drive cannot have a "lack of drivers" as optical drives are plug and play. |
So you're telling me this Uninstall button here won't cause the device to stop working if I use it and don't reboot? Please - confirm shit before you post.
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You can google it. Optical drives do not need drivers as they already have them. Yours would have to be extremely old to need drivers.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 5:57 am Post subject: |
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| Hero wrote: | | SF wrote: | | Hero wrote: | | Id buy a new drive, and then experiment with the old ones. A dvd drive cannot have a "lack of drivers" as optical drives are plug and play. |
So you're telling me this Uninstall button here won't cause the device to stop working if I use it and don't reboot? Please - confirm shit before you post.
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You can google it. Optical drives do not need drivers as they already have them. Yours would have to be extremely old to need drivers. |
If they don't need drivers, why do they already have them? You're making yourself look retarded again and I think you should just stop posting.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 6:02 am Post subject: |
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| Hero wrote: | | SF wrote: | | Hero wrote: | | Id buy a new drive, and then experiment with the old ones. A dvd drive cannot have a "lack of drivers" as optical drives are plug and play. |
So you're telling me this Uninstall button here won't cause the device to stop working if I use it and don't reboot? Please - confirm shit before you post.
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You can google it. Optical drives do not need drivers as they already have them. Yours would have to be extremely old to need drivers. |
Seeing as the drivers are from Microsoft, I'd say they have a sort of universal driver built into Windows for all dvd/cd drives. Still drivers, nevertheless.
@OP: This looks interesting.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 6:11 am Post subject: |
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| Hero wrote: | | SF wrote: | | Hero wrote: | | Id buy a new drive, and then experiment with the old ones. A dvd drive cannot have a "lack of drivers" as optical drives are plug and play. |
So you're telling me this Uninstall button here won't cause the device to stop working if I use it and don't reboot? Please - confirm shit before you post.
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You can google it. Optical drives do not need drivers as they already have them. Yours would have to be extremely old to need drivers. |
>Already have them
That means that they have them, derp.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 11:14 am Post subject: |
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| WinRAR wrote: | | Hero wrote: | | SF wrote: | | Hero wrote: | | Id buy a new drive, and then experiment with the old ones. A dvd drive cannot have a "lack of drivers" as optical drives are plug and play. |
So you're telling me this Uninstall button here won't cause the device to stop working if I use it and don't reboot? Please - confirm shit before you post.
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You can google it. Optical drives do not need drivers as they already have them. Yours would have to be extremely old to need drivers. |
Seeing as the drivers are from Microsoft, I'd say they have a sort of universal driver built into Windows for all dvd/cd drives. Still drivers, nevertheless.
@OP: This looks interesting. |
Windows has a driver to recognize an optical drive period. The drive its self does not need a specific driver. You plug it in and thats it. I have done it with several IDE dvd drives. I did it about 5 months back with a brand new dvd -+ rw with light scribe. I forget the burn speed on it though.
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I can give you this much,
your looking for a laser diode for a dvd drive.
Good luck.
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| Buy another, Cheap as chips. You really think sourcing parts cheaply and doing it yourself is going to be easier?!
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SF
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| Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Psy wrote: | | Buy another, Cheap as chips. You really think sourcing parts cheaply and doing it yourself is going to be easier?! |
Never said I wanted to do it the easy way. I'd much rather do it the hard way and learn from it, then just go do what everyone else does and buy a new drive.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Psy wrote: | | Buy another, Cheap as chips. You really think sourcing parts cheaply and doing it yourself is going to be easier?! |
Never said I wanted to do it the easy way. I'd much rather do it the hard way and learn from it, then just go do what everyone else does and buy a new drive.
@Saifallofjmr: Is that all the info you have or are you holding out on me..? 
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