Heat affecting CD-RW ...

[AluminumStudios]

I have an LGe 8160b 16x10x40 CD-RW drive.

In my previous machine it started giving me problems - it would "loose track" of the CD while reading and start blinking and have massive seek times. Often it would hang or skip the computer when this happened. I *think* it started around the time I mounted a hot hard drive below it (making the CD-RW drive extra warm.)

I recently moved to a new case and the problem seems gone.

I've had MANY optical drives die on me in the past. Often the problem begins intermittently, so I'm not convinced that it was just the heat causing it. It has also produced a few coasters (which is also new for this 8 month old drive that has been used HEAVILY.)

I have a warrenty from Best Buy so I can exchange it at no cost if I want. I was just wondering if anyone else has had heat cause this problem with CD-ROMs or RW drives? If heat often causes these symptoms that I'll just hold on to the drive for now. If the consensus is that heat doesn't cause optical drives much grief then I'll probably return and exchange the drive.

 

[RemyCanad]

I don't know, I have never had the a problem like that. But if I were you I would take the optical drive out and take the side off of your case. I would then install the optical drive out side of your case and do a bombard of tests and see what happens.

 

[AluminumStudios]

I've seen MANY CD-ROMs exhibit this behavior before they fail ... where they have a tough time reading discs, and often stop and blink as if they have to rescan the disc (like when you first put it in.)

Heat isn't an issue anymore with my new case. I'm just trying to see if anyone else has had heat cause such problems. If so, then my drive is likely OK. If not then chances are my drive is doing to die sometime soon and I"d rather replace it before it does.

 

[RemyCanad]

Ok, I see now. All I can say is I have never had heat cause a problem but I could see it happening if the heat was hot enough.