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cdrom drive eats cds?

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michaelh20

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I get these sounds from certain cds like scratching sounds and when I
look at them they are scuffed around the outer edges. Usually it happens
at a higher speed and when the cd drive is keeping going at a constant
rate. If it jumps from file to file and varies the speed, it doesn't
seem to happen. Rarely the cd drive grinds to complete halt -- I've seen this happen *once* and it was a visual studio .net cd 🙁

It seems like this is happening with too many cds for it to be caused
just by defective cds. Is this a hardware issue or is there something
wrong with these cds? Do older cdroms get these kind of problem somehow?

I'm assuming I can polish them somehow to get them to work right again..
otherwise how do I replace microsoft cd's like .net studio, etc.. ?

I have one cheap cdrom drive -- 50x and one older yamaha burner -- the burner seems to be better in general, but I still get scratchy stuff on that one too, at least the same cds in one will do the same thing in the other.
 
That's really bizarre. It's got to be a hardware problem (unless you're in the habit of dumping sand in the drive or putting lots of stickers on the media...).

The oddest thing is that it happens in both drives. IIWY, I'd get new drives...

Maybe, maybe, it could indicate a problem with your OS or motherboard. What do you use?
 
I notice the top drive -- less problems there -- seems to hold the cd more firmly in place....... can't wiggle it around very much
 
open the CD drive up, it will void your warranty though.

look inside, something may have come loose which is scratching the discs.

i had a similar problem with my DVD drive. it would scratch my DVDs =(, i checked out the problem after getting a replacement drive. i opened my drive up, and saw the cause of the scratching. one of the foam adhesive blocks came off. this block was being used to hold a plastic ribbon cable to a wall of the innards. the block came loose, and a corner of it was like 1/8" of an inch off, and this caused the scratching. needless to say, i replaced hte foam block, and the drive works fine =)
 
I did open it up, saw nothing obvious (it was a $30 drive). I went to a local video store and they "polished"/ground down the cd and it works fine now 🙂 The other drive works just fine, so it was just this one drive.
 
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