Asus V6800V upgrade CPU and replace CD-RW drive

I have Asus V6800V.
(1) I want to upgrade CPU (at least more than 2.0 GHz).
(2) CD-RW drive shows the problem :
It can read some dvd but it cannot read others.
Also, some recorded CD by it cannot be recognized and
just show blank CD.

HELP !!!!

 

Help needed asap~

 

Why do you need to upgrade the CPU ? I guess you have the same model like mine and unless you do CPU-intensive tasks on a regular basis there is almost no practical difference. As for dvd drive check your specifications or use Everest home edition for more details. This is what you should have: Writing Speeds:
DVD+R 2.4x
DVD+RW 2.4x
DVD-R 2x
DVD-RW 2x
DVD-RAM 2x
CD-R 24x
CD-RW 10x

Reading Speeds:
DVD-ROM 8x
CD-ROM 24x

 

Agreed with Matisse on the CPU.

The DVD drive might be failing. Is it a Matsh!ta perhaps? That's how those usually fail from my experience and what I've read. You might be able to replace it, depending on the form factor.

Of course, before deciding it is failing, you should make sure that you use high-quality media (optical disks) and that you clean the lens. It might just be dirty.

 

I did Everest home edition. I chose this software to report.
And at the end, it shows Debugging Optical Bios and
some words after that, I cannot see the optical drive in
Hardware Manager Panel. But, functionally it is OK.
What is happenned... I think I am going to wipe out everything and change
everything, I mean including updating the CMOS and BIOS and all.
How long it would take? to do all, now I have upgrade 2GB RAM?
Any guidance to download the latest CMOS?
Thanks in advance -

 

Wow, welcome back! 10 months later

I am not sure I understand all your questions.

Do you still have problems with the optical drive? After that debugging thing, does the optical drive appear after you restart?

Updating BIOS: see the guide in my signature. Updating CMOS: not sure what you mean, CMOS is usually used to refer to the area where the BIOS stores the user settings. You can reset those using some special options in the BIOS (reset to manufacturer/user defaults).

A full recovery from the recovery partition will take around half an hour. From the optical media, it will take 2 to 4 hours.

I don't understand about the RAM.

 

Sounds like the optical drive is flaking out, since he's saying Device Manager doesn't see it, but Windows sees it as a drive. Might want to check to see if the BIOS recognizes it.

The ultimate test would be to see if it even boots anything. Get a copy of Knoppix ( http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html), burn it to a CD on another PC, and try to load it. If the drive has issues, it probably won't boot (it's all compressed, nothing can afford to be missing or corrupted ).