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July 20th, 2002, 02:40 PM
#1
Registered User
LG combo drive
Anyone else having trouble with the £80 drive from PC World or Dixons in the UK? I can play Mortal Kombat Annihilation but The Phantom Menace plays badly. Its like it cannot read the disc.
Maybe this is why the drive is so cheap in those shops. Even the cd reading ability is not good.
Fraser.
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July 20th, 2002, 03:40 PM
#2
yup ...had the same prob with a couple of my customers , who a: were stupid enough to by "mini" towered tiny/time machines and b: stupid enough to go to pc world to have a "burner" fitted ,,,
they are a very slow burn/bvd speed ,,,in reality , it would be cheaper to buy an LG 32xXXxXX burner (the 24 + 32 are cheap at the moment) and an artec 16x dvd ,,,,
i,m in preston lancs and just picked a "retail" price list up from a shop (just did some work for em) artec dvd £31.50 and a burner (think LG) £49.95. ,,,,,,take the thing back to pc"hit and ask for a swop/refund or even summot that works ,,,
if ness get yourself a bigger case and go seperates.
cheers FtF
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July 20th, 2002, 08:32 PM
#3
Senior Member
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by freddy:
<strong>who a: were stupid enough to by "mini" towered tiny/time machines and b: stupid enough to go to pc world to have a "burner" fitted ,,,
</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">not the best way to put it Freddy. but i agree with taking it back and getting the money back.
G.
All sorts of wonderful things in life.
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July 21st, 2002, 02:48 AM
#4
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Garak:
<strong> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by freddy:
<strong>who a: were stupid enough to by "mini" towered tiny/time machines and b: stupid enough to go to pc world to have a "burner" fitted ,,,
</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">not the best way to put it Freddy. but i agree with taking it back and getting the money back.
G.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">well you know what I neen gary ,,,,
1 guy i know got $hagged by P%world ,, they removed his dvd , fitted one of those heaps ,,then installed XP over the top of 98 ,,,
oh ,,i forgot to tell you , it was a celleron (about 300/350) with a 3.2g hard drive and 128 meg mem.
bit tight or what??? ,,,and they forgot to clear 600m of %hit out of the temp dir!!!!
upto seeing this drive in action , I had been contemplating one for my DVD ripping machine ,(dobbin) for simplicity and cost (?),,,,as i read dvd,s slow and burn at 4-8 ,,,,but after seeing it struggle ,,,(about 15secs to accnolage a disk) ,,i dicided on a "good" qlty DVD and a couple of nic cards to "drag" the mpeg back and burn it else where .
I dont think the "combo" idea is a good one .
FtF
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July 21st, 2002, 03:29 AM
#5
Geezer
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Fraser:
<strong>Anyone else having trouble with the £80 drive from PC World or Dixons in the UK? ...
Maybe this is why the drive is so cheap in those shops. Even the cd reading ability is not good.
</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">He-he! - I like the sentiment Alan.... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />
I thought you put it well!
BUT in answer to the q -I think the cause lies elsewhere I have returned a lot of these LG combo drives lately, 20 out of 20 last week, so I think they are a no no(Not NooNoo SHE is of course completley different! ), however since your drive reads some but not other disks then is it not more likely dirt or a scratch??
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July 21st, 2002, 03:38 AM
#6
and to add to this ,,,,,"maplins" have now started keeping the "grinding" paste to clean cd,s ,,,,,
they open at 11.00am ,,,,,
so down to morrisons ,to get the cooked chicken , for sunday dinner then maplin,s to pick the leads up tor my new "black box" "serve switch" ,,,,owch they are dear (a lot of money) ......
bye bye all.....
GP s on at 12.00 ,,,,
FtF
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July 21st, 2002, 06:28 AM
#7
Registered User
Maybe the Phantom Menace discs are scratched. They only have faint scratches. Should I be able to get a replacement from the publisher? It is only a few months old. I'm going to buy some cd wipes.
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July 23rd, 2002, 07:14 AM
#8
Registered User
I'm planning to try DVDflector which is a stick on film that repairs and protects dvd's. Has anyone had success with these things?
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July 23rd, 2002, 07:19 AM
#9
Driver Terrier
Ordinary white toothpaste, just a little smeared into the scratches should be enough to hold it while you burn a back up copy... worked for me after my daughter scratched her toy story cd.
Never, ever approach a computer saying or even thinking "I will just do this quickly."
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July 23rd, 2002, 08:57 AM
#10
Registered User
People get amused, but I use WD40 on scratched cdrom disks. Silicone fills in the scratches, and WD40 cleans the disk as well.
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July 23rd, 2002, 10:31 AM
#11
Senior Member
Originally posted by NooNoo
Ordinary white toothpaste, just a little smeared into the scratches should be enough to hold it while you burn a back up copy... worked for me after my daughter scratched her toy story cd.
And this really works?
All sorts of wonderful things in life.
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July 23rd, 2002, 01:45 PM
#12
Geezer
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July 23rd, 2002, 05:47 PM
#13
Registered User
I actually think the stuff produced by Time/Tiny/PC World eMachines is great.
Its terrible quality, badly thrown together, frequently goes wrong and keeps me very busy sorting out the mess when the poor owners find me from Yellow Pages to fix things.
BTW.... I fix at least two or three Tiny machines a week where the psu has failed just after the PCs first birthday.
150 Watt for a PIII machine........hmmmmmmmm... not surprising really is it.
As for the combo drives, they are just an accident waiting to happen.
Was that all a bit too cynical???
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