Yesterday I wrote this to Plextor’s forum allready, but got no reply so far, so please help me if you can.
I have Plextor’s PX-740A DVD-RW for almost 5 years now and it did well until recently. Now all of a sudden it gives me errors when I try to burn something. There is another problem: the tray sometimes doesn’t eject - I have to try it several times and then it finaly ejects. But that doesn’t bother me so much. So, I suspect that my PX-740A is broken and want to be sure before buying a new DVD-RW drive. Where can I download the hardware diagnostic program for Plextor drives or something like that? Any other suggestions, ideas, comments are welcome too.
My guess it that it has broken and could be contaminated with dust causing the LED to be dirty or the guide rail grease dried up on the rails causing the cariage to bind.
What do you mean by that? I have XP Pro and SATA cable, so I’ll get a new/used DVD-RW with a sata connector, right?
Can you tell me, when I’ll change the DVD-RW drive, do I only have to uninstall the old drivers and install the new one for the new drive, or will I have to set anything in the BIOS or somewhere else too?
;D pure hardware? ;D it cannot be remotely diagnose by software, maintainance is the best for them
good choice to change the ejector motor. cause the longer the motor is use the carbon brass got thinner
that the case why the motor is less efficient or the strength got lesser. so cannot eject. ;D
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pure hardware furom!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
goodluck!!!
SATA connections isn’t totally related to your OS (though I don’t believe if you had win9.x your system would support SATA), SATA is supported in your motherboard. However, I think it highly unlikely you have a SATA Optical drive, but your OS and motherboard are likely to support SATA hard disks.
Just look at the cables connecting your motherboard to your optical drive and that will tell you if it is IDE (YoKenny’s image 1) or SATA image 2.
You are right, David. I was sure I have a SATA cable connected to my DVD-RW drive, but now I opened the box and it’s that big old IDE cable. So I’ll have to get a DVD-RW drive with IDE support. Thank you all for your help!
Adaptors cost money, my old IDE cable is free. I’ll stick with IDE.
Can you please tell me: when I’ll change the DVD-RW drive, do I just need to uninstall the old driver and install the new one (for the new DVD-RW drive), or do I have to change any settings in BIOS or somewhere else too? Thank you!
in that case no need install uninstall the driver. when you connect your new dvd the os itself find it if you buy same product as what in your system but if it is different then driver needed, just leave the old driver there, you cannot find the old driver there,so you cannot un install it
Most Optical drives are plug&play, detected by the OS, what isn’t is the software to Burn DVD/CDs that usually comes with the drive in the form of an installation CD.
I installed a new DVD-RW drive today and it reads CDs and DVDs fine. But when I tried to burn a DVD it gave me an error and couldn’t do it. When I tried to burn a CD it did fine. Strange huh?
What do you think (now I use a NEC drive and CDBurnerXP program, if that helps)?
