If I don’t have enough issues to deal with, my DVD-ROM\/CD-RW Combo drive has decided to stop reading last night! D:
\nAllow me to explain what happened. In Facepunch, someone posted a thread in the Tech Support forum, asking if his RAM was faulty. I noticed how his issue was similar to mine so I replied, and I was told to run memtest86 by burning it to a CD. Now I’ve been meaning to run memtest86 for sometime.<\/p>\n
So I downloaded the .iso, and searched for a blank CD-RW, pop it in and tell Nero 6’s InCD to format it for me. It attempts to. As it’s about to finish, Windows cries foul by saying “SHIT! There’s a scratch on it! I can’t format this!”. So I attempt to cancel. However, my drive has other ideas, continuing to format the CD even though I told it to fucking stop.
\nOn top of it, it starts to slow down Windows until it freezes, forcing me to manually shutdown.
\nI get the CD out, and try another, and notice what a difficult time it’s having reading it. The read light blinks on and off repeatably. No spin up of the CD to read it either.<\/p>\n
So… I fucking broke the drive! This is the 2nd DVD-ROM\/CD-RW Combo drive that broke on me in my life.
\nFortunately, today things are looking a little brighter (despite we’re under a slight risk of severe weather). I called them and explained the problem and they say “Yeah. You’ll have to get it replaced.”
\nThough they have no combo drives, they have DVD Burners. I questioned if it would still burn a CD-RW and he said yes.
\nSo I’m not only planning to get a new Hard Drive, but a DVD Burner. And both will be SATA drives.<\/p>\n
BTW. If you wanna know if I finally got to run memtest86, fortunately my old 3(1\/2) floppy drive still works. I manage to “burn” it to a floppy and ran the program for two hours.
\nNo errors. So it’s not my RAM causing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If I don’t have enough issues to deal with, my DVD-ROM\/CD-RW Combo drive has decided to stop reading last night! D: Allow me to explain what happened. In Facepunch, someone posted a thread in the Tech Support forum, asking if … Continue reading