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    My optical drive sucks!!

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by seal99, Aug 18, 2006.

  1. seal99

    seal99 Notebook Enthusiast

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    For the second time in just 3 months its time to send my dear Asus W3 in for repair again. I´ve had big problems with my optical drive, both reading and burning. It´s a TSST-L532A. I guess I will get a new one again, the thrid in just one year... Anyone else having the same problems??
    /M
     
    seal99, Aug 18, 2006
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  2. Gautam

    Gautam election 2008 NBR Reviewer

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    Optical drives are probably the most sensitive piece of equipment in a notebook. This is especially true with the increasing complexity of things they do - first it was just reading cd, then writing them, then writing dvds+cd, etc.

    The only use of the warranty for the notebooks I have had was to replace the optical drives. If you want to prevent this hassle, clean all the discs you put in the drive, and don't leave the drive open for any reason. Also, do NOT clean the drive using commercial drive cleaning discs.
     
    Gautam, Aug 20, 2006
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    jacen83 Notebook Enthusiast

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    this raises a point of mine. My asus w3j apparantly has an optical drive that reads at 24x but i dont think this is the case. In itunes i only incode at 8x and i think this is down to the speed of the cd drive. I have seen slower processors encode faster with desktop optical drives - 40x etc... It isnt just itunes - WMP and cd-ex are the same too. Any idea how to get it spinning faster? I tried turning power save off and that didnt help. Games install unbearably slowly and that is down to the cd drive too as the hard drive is perfectly adaquate - 5400rpm 100gb. levels load quickly.
     
    jacen83, Aug 20, 2006
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  4. digital8doug

    digital8doug Notebook Consultant

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    Try upgrading firmware to X194. I did it OK in VISTA ;) , even though note says only supports XP!
    I forgot the link, try search w/ da big G (btw, It is illegal / trademark violation to say do a G..gle!)

    I bought a DVR-K06 slot loading (5x DVD-RAM). Had to change the caddy fm l532A to new slim line, but it works great :D .

    Anybody got a broken L532A I can scavenge another caddy from :) :) ??
     
    digital8doug, Aug 20, 2006
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