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My PC eats cd-roms :(

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jleon

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Any of you guys run into the problem of your computer eating your cd-roms. My comp has gone thru like 4 cd-roms already. My comp is a celeron 300 overclocked to 375mhz. I have 2 hard drives on my primary ide channel. In total i have have 2 cd-roms. One is an external scsi sony cdr and the second cd-rom is an internal ide drive, that's is the only device on the secondary ide channel.
I have gone thru from many ide cdroms already as they would work for like about 3 months and then they would die on me. My computer would struggle to read cd's in the ide cd-rom. Eventually, my computer would not recognize it at all. Highly odd. I have bought name brand cd-rom such as creative labs. No major installation was done on my pc, it's just thru normal day to day use that i'll eventually hear the buzzing sound of my pc trying to read the disc and eventually no more cdrom 🙁
 
I actually had a similar problem a while back. My 32x IDE cdrom would be fine for awhile and then go haywire and eat a cdrom. Do you have any sort of marks on the cd's themselves that may have been caused by the drive. That's what it turned out to be in my case and I had to break down and buy a new drive

 
with your cpu overclocked to 375, would mean that u set your fsb to 83mhz, which would mean that your pci bus is running at 41mhz instead of 33mhz...try clocking the fsb back down to 66mhz (clocking your cpu back to 300)

clocking the fsb at 100mhz and setting the pci clock divider to 1/3 would clock your cpu to 450 and set your pci bus at 33mhz, and if u have a celeron300a, that is most likely possible
 
Yea, I have a Celeron 300a. Thanks for your help, I'm gonna try OC'ing it to 450mhz to bring the bus to 33mhz. That could be the culprit. *crosses his fingers*
 
Creative cd-roms are known to suck big time...especially if it's the 52x... i wouldn't be surprised if it was the creative drive...they're loud as hell (when they work) and they fail often...i wouldn't trust creative for anything other than a sound card or a video card.
 
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