I have a 10x Pioneer DVD drive model 114. I is having a problem with reading disks of any kind, and the problems seems to be motly seeking related. I posted before without many replies so I thought I'd try aggain.
Even when I bought it, sometimes I would hear it hit something inside and it would slow down and reset but that was very rare. But now and espetialy in that past coulple of weeks it is extremely bad.
Most disks that I insert cannot be read. I can hear the head just hit back and forth trying to read the disk but it just can't get it and lately it has even caused blue screen crashes dew to the lond wait without a responce. I ran Nere CD speed on a disk it could read and it more or less went fine with only a few bumps in the speed test. It had many problems with the random seek test, a few problems in the 1/3 test but it could not complete the full stroke test at all as it was just hitting back and forth.
I tried opening it to clean it out but it did not help. The head itself is very free to move along two rails and I did see the two points were it hits when seeking.
I asked before about caligrating the seesk but that just doesn't seem possible or just deoesn't work.
I was wondering if anyone might have or had a Pioneer drive with similar problems that may be fixable in some way.
If not, anybody know of any realy cheep DVD drives that I can get as a replacemnt. I don't need the fastest drive but an inexpensive one, maybee even a free after rebate if possible.
Thanks
elkinm
Even when I bought it, sometimes I would hear it hit something inside and it would slow down and reset but that was very rare. But now and espetialy in that past coulple of weeks it is extremely bad.
Most disks that I insert cannot be read. I can hear the head just hit back and forth trying to read the disk but it just can't get it and lately it has even caused blue screen crashes dew to the lond wait without a responce. I ran Nere CD speed on a disk it could read and it more or less went fine with only a few bumps in the speed test. It had many problems with the random seek test, a few problems in the 1/3 test but it could not complete the full stroke test at all as it was just hitting back and forth.
I tried opening it to clean it out but it did not help. The head itself is very free to move along two rails and I did see the two points were it hits when seeking.
I asked before about caligrating the seesk but that just doesn't seem possible or just deoesn't work.
I was wondering if anyone might have or had a Pioneer drive with similar problems that may be fixable in some way.
If not, anybody know of any realy cheep DVD drives that I can get as a replacemnt. I don't need the fastest drive but an inexpensive one, maybee even a free after rebate if possible.
Thanks
elkinm
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