TDK 24X for $60+Tax (After MIR) at CC

[SubZeroX]

hey guys, I had the same problem with the drive (the B one) not being able to read anything. I unsintalled it, not physically, but told windows to uninstall it. I restarted and it asked for some drivers from the XP CD so I put that in. Restarted again. Now it works. It reads stuff now, even 99 min CDs which it's not supposed to be able to do. Well, I hope this helps. I'm using WinXP Pro by the way.

 

[OS]

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[seribellum]

Thanks for the BB tag scan hacgumyu! So glad they were nice enough to "scan" it for ya.

I ordered this in the early morning hours online and it was waiting for me at CC a few hours later. Hate waking up early to fight other people for products. Anyway, mine is the 241040B with the blue door (Lite-On). Manufactured on Dec 23, 2001 (don't these people have days off for the holidays? ).

 

[Sundog]

<< oh guys. let clear the A or B confusion!

here's what I have:
TDK 241040B, becareful, cuz on the serial sticker it said B241040Axxxxxx, but on the drive it's AI-CDRW 241040B. you can identify your drive by looking at the front of the drive's lower left, it should said 24/10/40A or B

The drive have BLUE TRAY FACE and TRAY
some people tell me their drive's tray face is white/gray but the tray is blue( that's different than what i have )

Manuf date: Dec 23 2001
FCC ID # PPQRW1002 >>



hacgumyu: Glad to see you got my pic of the drive last night! Like my awesome numbering using paint! LOL Anyway, I too have the B drive and tested it last night reading audio CDs, data CDs (from mobos), CD-RWs, and CD-Rs from Memorex, Fuji (TY), Kodak, Generic. All worked fine and burned in a copy of Master of Puppets in under 4 minutes.

No problems here.....

 

[stingygrrl]

I'm sorry --I'm confused. I'm going to go to BB when they open at 10 am.

I understand that people are having some problems with the B but not the A.

are there A drives with blue faces?


is that my first choice assuming I can open 1-2 boxes in the store to look?

can someone summarize the A/B/tray color/liteon/sanyo for me?

THANKS!
I love this board!

 

[TaiFeng]

I read in a forum mentioned about using ATA66 cable for cd-rom and burner will cause reading or even can't recognize the drive in WinXP, my neighbor has same problem, after I changed an ATA33 cable for him, problem was gone.
anyone here using XP may want to try that.

 

[Southpaw]

hey guys...

I have not got in on this one yet, but I did a little reverse engineering at the FFC site....

We all know that the FCC ID of PPQ is Lite-On....

I check all grants given to Sanyo in the last 6 months....
I came up with 2..one for a 24X USB2.0 writer and one for a 32X10X40 Writer...

Both had an FCC prefix of JBQ

Not sure if anyone has a JBQ on theirs, but if they do, you can rest assured it is a Sanyo.

Southpaw

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

The TDK only has a 2mg buffer? that's how much my 8X has. Isn't that a little small??

 

[amdmaxx]

Nah, with burn-proof technology burner senses the burning and adjusts speed and stuff accordingly.. U wont have any coasters... Unless u play quake and listen to MP3s, copying 1000 meg file while burning..



<< The TDK only has a 2mg buffer? that's how much my 8X has. Isn't that a little small?? >>

 

[ramz]

Goin to the local BB today to check the price....I purchased the TDK "B" drive 2 weeks ago for $149!!!!!.....I will go and ask for a guaranteed low price for 30 days deal....Hope it works.

 

[vetteguy]

Has anyone confirmed that Best Buy is indeed selling them for $59? Or is the verdict still out on that one?

 

[Rhodent]

Anyone in SC have a receipt they could scan me to help get the price adjustment?

 

[Rhodent]

I called my BB this morning. Asked if they had it in stock. He knew right away and said "you mean the one for like 50 dollars or something?" So, rest assured that if there weree any last night BB employees prob cleaned em out. I'm going to CC and try to price match witht hat scan. If they call to check for in stock I'v wasted the trip for nothing.

 

[Flaredair]

OK people, just exchanged my defective 24/10/40B Lite-ON.

I'll post if the new one which is also a 24/10/40B works as it should.

:disgust:

 

[nealh]

anyone know where the 20 off $100 staples coupon is at...at least a hint I check techb*rgains....

A comment on the liteon 24102B...on my abit mobo(KR7A)..it would not read or write a cd/cd....the tray would eject out/in...

So some of the problems maybe mobo related..my A7V133..no problems

My Acer and plex work fine on the Abit mobo


With that said...my mso pro 6163 mobo..bx chipset loves the liteon...it is an awesome drive....
highly recmmend it

 

[Wolverine27]

This partly belongs in Brag&Moan, but also belongs here because it does indeed verify that the TDK 24x is marked at $59.99 in some select stores... Anyhow, I just got back from a couple of Best Buys. The first one I went to had none on the shelves, but there were two shelf tags for the TDK 24x...one was for $79.99 - $20 rebate...the other was for $59.99 no rebate.

I grabbed the $59.99 no rebate tag and took it to one of the employees. He checked stock and found one for me at another store 30 minutes away. He called the other store and had them put one on hold for me.

I drive to the other store, pick up the drive, and decide to double check to make sure the price is $59.99. I ask the guy behind the counter and he looks at me like I'm nuts...and proceeds to tell me the drive is $129.99. So I explain the situation to him and he tells me that he can't honor the price because each store is different. Well, lucky for me a nice manager happened to overhear the whole story and decided to honor the price for me anyway. So with my price adjustment sheet and TDK burner in hand I sprint for the checkout (just in case they decide to change their mind ) Cashier rings me up...offers me the obligatory extended warranty spiel...then lo and behold...a $20.00 rebate form prints up too! Wow...my lucky day!!!

Anyhow, some of you may want to check your local BB's...definitely worth a shot if you're in the market for a burner. My final price was $63.03 -$20.00 rebate = $43.03

Thanks to all!

YMMV...but it can happen to you too!!!

 

[amdmaxx]

Wolverine - thumbs up..
Here is my story.. I am in NJ...
Drove to Best buy on lunch break.. Walk in with a buddy, 2 still left.. One on regular shelf - $129, one by sticker $59.97...
We both go to cashier, scans @ $129.99. I grab cashier by the hand and walk with her over to the shelf with $59.97 sticker.. She sees it and goes: ohh, ok..
We both go to register and she changes price in the computer (permanent change for all future buys also (manager was doing those changes)... So it rings upf ro $59.97 and I get a receipt... I look at receipt and smile widely - there is a $20 rebate there also.. I just hope BB will honor those rebates..
Final price $59.97+tax.. and hopefully - $20.00. My buddy and I picked up first 2 and last 2 in the store

 

[hacgumyu]

anyone like me tired PM BB at CC to get your TDK24x FREE plus $10 back???

buy at CC for $130, PM bb - $70.03= $59.97
then sent in 2 rebate for $70 = FREE CDRW & $10 BACK!


any luck out there?

 

[murphy55d]

Picked this up from the CDRinfo forum regarding the Liteon B drives. Read the part about the CSR telling him that ALL the "b' drives have this issue.

Posted by Robo21



<< I am returning my second 24102B for exchange. Liteon has set a new record in my personal experience as being the most problem riddled piece of hardware I have ever worked with.

It all started about 2 weeks ago when my best friend finally convinced me to get the burner. He kept raving about how perfect it was and how he hadn't had a coaster yet. The price dropped to $80 which seemed like a reasonable price so I got one. It wasn't easy though due to the fact that I have 5 burners already.

So my reseller sent me an OEM unit instead of the retail-boxed model I had ordered. I installed the unit into my AMD TBird system which has thus far been extremely tolerant and accepting of any type of hardware I connected to it, including each of the 5 other burners I own.

The first issue was that the drive would not be detected by BIOS. Furthermore, the tray would not eject and the LED stayed on all of the time. Turns out the drive was DOA, but I didn't know this for sure until I had wasted many hours trying to make it work and visiting the Liteon website (it offers next to nothing) looking for help.

So the drive gets returned and the retail-boxed version arrives and we eagerly install it thinking and hoping that this one will be the burner of my dreams. Forget about it. This time the drive was detected in BIOS immediately. However, the tray would not eject and the LED remained lit continuously.

In doing our normal troubleshooting procedure, we determined that the digital audio cable was the culprit. If the digital audio cable was correctly connected the drive would not function correctly. So, I figured, "no big deal, I won't use the digital audio extraction." Alas, the problems did NOT end there.

I tried backing up one of my games which is protected with Safedisk v.2. First I used CloneCD. The drive sat there and made no progress whatsoever during the reading. It just whirred up to full speed and then down to idle and then up to full speed and then back to idle. Naturally, I theorized that it could be the software so I tried another hallmark of burning software, Nero.

The drive still did not read, and still it continued to whir up to full speed and then down to idle, over and over again. Then I tried another game that I had previously made a backup of successfully, this one protected by Safedisk v.1.

This time the drive made a flawless and exact copy of the CD in jaw-dropping time - 12 minutes! I was ecstatic, I thought there might be hope. Wrong again. I contacted Liteon and was told by the tech that Liteon Corp. was indeed aware that when a digital audio cable is connected to the drive, the drive will not function. Furthermore, I was told that Liteon has no intention of producing a fix for the problem. I was told that "the problem will not be corrected on this drive, it will be corrected in the successor model only."

Well this stinks, in fact, this is downright unethical business. These people manufacture a piece of hardware that does not function as it is supposed to and then NOT ONLY do they fail to fix the problem and have no intention of fixing the problem. But they won't even alert their customers that the problem exists!

So people buy the drive and find out the hard way that the digital audio cable, when connected, aborts the normal functionality of the drive. Or they don't realize this is the problem and return the drive to the reseller who, in turn, returns the drive to Liteon.

Now it gets scary. There are numerous posts on various forums about this issue. Furthermore, the person I spoke with at Liteon acknowledged that the problem is with all of the 24102B drives. Therefore, Liteon must be getting many hundreds if not thousands of drives returned (they produced and shipped 800,000 drives in November-I don't know how many of that number were the 24102B but you can be sure it was a very large percentage) so this means that Liteon is maintaining silence (no notification on, or with, new drives being shipped, and no notification on the website) on this issue for one reason - so they can maximize the profits on their bottom line by selling junk to the public. Well, there could be another reason, it could be that is cheaper for them to repack all the returns and reship them to unsuspecting buyers around the world. But again, it boils down to profit. My bottom line is this: Liteon does NOT care about the customer beyond the initial sale. Their lack of easily accessible tech support tells us that.

Getting back to my situation, the tech at Liteon suggested that I use a 'downgrade' of the firmware to get the drive to read Safedisk2 and SecuRom protected disks. I first loaded the 5S07 firmware in DOS, the software reported that the flash was successful, however the drive lost all functionality and just spun with the LED now continuoursly red in color. I then tried upgrading to my original firmware, again the software reported "success" but the drive failed to return to anything close to normal. Now the drive is completely useless. >>

 

[CDelle80]

First off thanks for the info!

Just got back from Best Buy AND Circuit City on my lunch break. First I went to BB to see if they had it and sure enuff the price was there but no burner. Had the dude check in the back and no luck.

So I headed off to CC and they didn't have it either but said I could order it so I said okay. Tried to PM based off the BB sticker someone posted here and no luck. He knew what was up and didn't give me any love. However I forgot about the Fry's ad and will try to PM against that tonight. Total was $140 before $70 MIR. Wish me luck on getting the rest PM'd tonight. Thanks for the deal guys!

 

[hacgumyu]

did you bring the BB price tag when you buy ur TDK at CC ???

 

[CDelle80]

Yes I did, he said he couldnt do it because it wasn't actually advertised. I seriously doubt they'll do it but if I'm feeling lucky I may try it on a different clerk tonight. Any suggestions?

 

[DUKAT1]

Bought one at CC yesterday for $130 less the 2 MIR's. Bought two more today at BB. My BB price was $79.97, & it printed out the $20 rebate coupons. Looks like they caught on here! Also, went back to CC, & @ss manager wouldn't pricematch down to BB price, said their price already as good with rebates. They have a nicer manager who will be in Wednesday.

Still, less than $67.80 with tax for each ain't bad.

Funny thing is that only one BB store locally showed more than two on their computers, these things sold fast. However, the one store which still showed a bunch was the Waterford, MI location, which showed 10. When I went in, they assured me they were soldout, & directed me to where they should be on the shelf. As there were none there, he said that the computer must be wrong, as he knows they sold every one they had. I didn't think so, so did a little searching on my own. Lo & behold, stuck in the middle of the hard drive section, 10 TDK drives. The other 8 are probably still there, as no one knows where to look for them. Until now.

 

[hacgumyu]

tips!!!

when you try PM BB at CC, look for the guy/gal that has a Credit Card thing( it's manager's key ) on their weist bell..

because they can adjust price himself without having a REAL manager come over to do it.

But of course you have to talk over that KEY CRS make him PM for you!

good luck

YMMV !!!!!!!!!

 

[CDelle80]

Further tip. Not sure about it but I'm going to try tonight. Since I went in this morning I can't go in until the dude gets off his shift and I see a fresh face. What I'm gonna do is bring my sales receipt and say "hey I paid $140 for this but over at BB they have it for $59. Here's a scan of the price. PM me!" Hopefully they won't realize they have $70 worth of rebates on it and PM me. That's best case scenario.

If that don't work I'll have Sunday's Fry's ad in hand and have them PM that. That'll bring it down to $39.99 I believe. Wish me luck! I'll post what happens when I get home tonight.