LOL

[Goosemaster]

Appearantly the thing has electrical problems (it is an external USB cd-rw) and fscks up every machine you plug it into.

Having it on a usb hub is soso bad (windows errors and such) but plugging it in the machine is fvking suicidal. That said, it hadn't given me any problems in a few days. Having setup my new pc with some old POS ide cdrom drive, I completely forgot about this external.

I accidentally plugged it directly to the computer....lol


The computer was flashing and such and froze.

Of course I unplugged it. It booted fine but....


I just got off the phone with MS XP activation. Appearantly whatever the hell happened required me to re-activate my machine😕

 

[revnja]

That drive has been cursed by some african tribe. I'd try to pawn it off on some gullible youngster, and have him inherit the curse.

 

[NoToRiOuS1]

put it on ebay
'garunteed to fvck up any computer it is plugged into'
you know someone can put an item such as that to good use

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: faboloso112
put it on ebay
'garunteed to fvck up any computer it is plugged into'
you know someone can put an item such as that to good use

Dude..it fvks up the bios like you WOULDN'T BELIEVE.

Let's not even get into windows.

 

[PHiuR]

ill buy it for a penny. SHIPPED.

 

[Shawn]

I had a cd-rom like that. It was internal though and it would kill PSUs. It didn't kill them right away though, it usually took a few weeks to a month or so before it'd fry the PSU. I went through about 7 PSUs before i finally figured out it was the fvcking cd-rom drive. :|

 

[Goosemaster]

damn. Everytime I stress usb now the computer locks up very slowly:|

First all of the usb devices but the keyboard die and then everything dies:|

Off to reinstall sp2

 

[Pciber]

take the drive out of the usb enclosure, plug it into your computer internally.. its probably just the damned usb->ide converter.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Pciber
take the drive out of the usb enclosure, plug it into your computer internally.. its probably just the damned usb->ide converter.

no. it is an honest to goodness external usb drive. It is not a converted one.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: Pciber
take the drive out of the usb enclosure, plug it into your computer internally.. its probably just the damned usb->ide converter.

no. it is an honest to goodness external usb drive. It is not a converted one.

toss it?

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: Pciber
take the drive out of the usb enclosure, plug it into your computer internally.. its probably just the damned usb->ide converter.

no. it is an honest to goodness external usb drive. It is not a converted one.

toss it?

Aye. The problem is that I have no cdrom🙁

All three of the IDE controllers are used (yes, my board has three IDE controllers +two SATA)

 

[Chompman]

Maybe it got possessed by all the dead cd's it ate? 😛

 

[Shawn]

jeez got enough pr0n? 😛 I solved that problem by getting an old pci ide controller out of the closet. it's pretty crappy. it's slow (only ATA 66) and doesn't support drives over 180GB or so but it's fine for my cd-rom drives. no problems burning dvds.

you can probably pick up an old one off ebay or even the FS/T forum for a few bucks.

 

[Pciber]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: Pciber
take the drive out of the usb enclosure, plug it into your computer internally.. its probably just the damned usb->ide converter.

no. it is an honest to goodness external usb drive. It is not a converted one.

lies! i don't believe you.

what brand/model?

 

[xcript]

Smash it with a hammer.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Shawn
jeez got enough pr0n? 😛 I solved that problem by getting an old pci ide controller out of the closet. it's pretty crappy. it's slow (only ATA 66) and doesn't support drives over 180GB or so but it's fine for my cd-rom drives. no problems burning dvds.

you can probably pick up an old one off ebay or even the FS/T forum for a few bucks.

I actually have one (SIIC ultra66) but it does not allow you to boot off of attached cdroms. I know I can move sh!t around in there but I don't want to🙁

Originally posted by: Pciber

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: Pciber
take the drive out of the usb enclosure, plug it into your computer internally.. its probably just the damned usb->ide converter.

no. it is an honest to goodness external usb drive. It is not a converted one.

lies! i don't believe you.

what brand/model?

Nu technologies...it is a 24x cdrw