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    ASUS A43S DVD Drive Failed To Read DVD (But Able to Read CD)

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by KcLKcL, Mar 6, 2012.

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    Hello guys, I'm new here. I hope I am posting in the correct section. If not, sorry, please move this, mods :)

    So this afternoon I was gonna try Hackintosh in this laptop, I burned the DVD with my PC and it boots normally in my PC.

    When I try to boot it in my A43S, my DVD drives sounds "click" (You know that spin up click), that click usually happens only once and we can actually hear the drive spin up after that (that "nguiiiiiing" sound).
    Nah now in my laptop DVD Drive, that click repeats for a few times and the drive eventually spin down. It won't read any DVD then, when booting or in Windows. So I am very sure this is not a driver problem.

    I burned another DVD-R, this time Sony. No luck, same result. But it reads faster in my PC. I'm kinda confused here..

    So I tried CD, that Laptop Drive read the CD flawlessly.

    So, what causes the problem actually? Googling gives me "Broken Laser". How could the laser broke up so quickly? (I bought this laptop in October '11)
     
    KcLKcL, Mar 6, 2012
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