Please review the Asus 1814 series optical drives, after you try to burn either 5-6 or 2-3 lightscribe labels, the drive will burn out on you, and Asus is doing nothing to remedy this problem, and consumers are being scammed out of they're money every day!
I bought a new Asus DRW-1814BLT that stopped doing everything except for reading dvd's after I burnt 5 or 6 lightscribe labls, so I RMA'd it, the replacemnt drive did the exact same thing after burning only 2 lightscribe labels.
I believe it is a factory defect with the entire 1814 series optical drives because the Asus forums loaded with posts about an endless amount of people having the same issue.
So after buying the drive for $55.00, spending $20.00 on RMA shipping just to have another defective drive sent back to me, then using up the last $23.00 in airtime I had waiting on hold for 45 minutes when I called Asus to speak to a second level technician to get a case number (which is required for a second RMA), who I never could get through too, and still haven't because now I don't have anymore airtime and won't until next pay day in the middle of February. I am stuck having paid double for a brand new optical drive that does not work, and I also have no phone anymore.
It is a common problem with the 1814's, these drives seem to be plagued with this problem, and Asus is doing nothing about it, and now I'm just another consumer who was screwed out of $100. It would be nice for someone to review these drives, all you have to do is try to burn 5 or 6 lightscribe labels and the drive will stop working for you, and then you will need to keep dishing out more $money$ just to have the problem not get resolved.
My RMA replacement drive was also a newer model, manufactured a few months after the original faulty drive, the issue is not being addressed, Asus support also says there are "no unresolved issues" with these drives, not true, please do the review and you'll see!
Please review these drives and this problem, again, just check the Asus forums. Thanks.
I bought a new Asus DRW-1814BLT that stopped doing everything except for reading dvd's after I burnt 5 or 6 lightscribe labls, so I RMA'd it, the replacemnt drive did the exact same thing after burning only 2 lightscribe labels.
I believe it is a factory defect with the entire 1814 series optical drives because the Asus forums loaded with posts about an endless amount of people having the same issue.
So after buying the drive for $55.00, spending $20.00 on RMA shipping just to have another defective drive sent back to me, then using up the last $23.00 in airtime I had waiting on hold for 45 minutes when I called Asus to speak to a second level technician to get a case number (which is required for a second RMA), who I never could get through too, and still haven't because now I don't have anymore airtime and won't until next pay day in the middle of February. I am stuck having paid double for a brand new optical drive that does not work, and I also have no phone anymore.
It is a common problem with the 1814's, these drives seem to be plagued with this problem, and Asus is doing nothing about it, and now I'm just another consumer who was screwed out of $100. It would be nice for someone to review these drives, all you have to do is try to burn 5 or 6 lightscribe labels and the drive will stop working for you, and then you will need to keep dishing out more $money$ just to have the problem not get resolved.
My RMA replacement drive was also a newer model, manufactured a few months after the original faulty drive, the issue is not being addressed, Asus support also says there are "no unresolved issues" with these drives, not true, please do the review and you'll see!
Please review these drives and this problem, again, just check the Asus forums. Thanks.
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