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    DVD burner for Presario V5201US (V5000 series)

    Discussion in 'HP' started by vga256, Mar 24, 2009.

  1. vga256

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    The original burner on this lappy (a HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GMA-4082N, firmware HQ04) doesn't burn DVD's anymore, but still reads them. It quit after 2.5 years of service and less than 50 discs written.

    I tried to replace it with a Pioneer DVR-KD08, but this drive is not properly recognized. It doesn't show up in BIOS at boot time, or in the OS, either Windows or Linux, although it spun up and ejected discs okay. The led of the Pioneer drive stayed on for a long time at boot, which makes me think that it had a master/slave issue. Unfortunately there is no tool to change the master/slave setting on this drive other than mod it---something I don't want to do---so I have returned it.

    One potential confounding issue is that the original 4082N drive is a MWDMA2 device, whereas most new devices are UDMA. The southbridge on this lappy is a SB400.

    I really don't want to spend the rather obscene $141 that HP is charging for an identical replacement given that the original drive didn't fare well. Any suggestions for a new drive to try would be appreciated, preferably the non-n00b variety. The 4082N was widely used in 2006-vintage laptops, so somebody must have replaced one successfully...
     
    vga256, Mar 24, 2009
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