CD-ROM failure?
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 1:06 pm
Has anyone ever run into this?
I have an ACER (BenQ) 40X CD-ROM ( http://www.benq.us/serviceandsupport/Dr ... roduct=146 ) with the latest firmware installed (Version: N0GP 11-21-2000).
Everything worked fine up until recently. Now the device seems not to want to read a data CD, but will play a "production" music CD just fine. Note that most of my data CD's are "home burned"...I don't have many "production" data CD's to try in it (and no "home burnt" music ones) to see if that has any influence or not. The type of media does not seem to matter, and the same discs read just fine in other units I have here.
Installing the device in another PC shows the same issue, so the PC itself is not the problem.
Could this be firmware related in some way? Might a "reflash" fix this problem? Or is it something hardware related?
Thanks for your input.
I have an ACER (BenQ) 40X CD-ROM ( http://www.benq.us/serviceandsupport/Dr ... roduct=146 ) with the latest firmware installed (Version: N0GP 11-21-2000).
Everything worked fine up until recently. Now the device seems not to want to read a data CD, but will play a "production" music CD just fine. Note that most of my data CD's are "home burned"...I don't have many "production" data CD's to try in it (and no "home burnt" music ones) to see if that has any influence or not. The type of media does not seem to matter, and the same discs read just fine in other units I have here.
Installing the device in another PC shows the same issue, so the PC itself is not the problem.
Could this be firmware related in some way? Might a "reflash" fix this problem? Or is it something hardware related?
Thanks for your input.