breadcrust
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I have a samsung cdrom drive that has decided to stop working after i put it in someones computer. now it wont work on any computers. it attempts to read cds but it cant.
i opened it up to have had a look. the cd spins and the lens moves around, but i took the motor out to have a look and it seems to rattle! my guess would be that the motor is dying and its not spinning fast enough, but that doesnt explain why it stopped working just when i put it in the other guy's computer.
some of you might say, its just a cdrom drive, throw it out already! but i really like this drive, its the best looking drive ive ever seen (but not sexy, computer parts are <u>not</u> sexy!) so i would like to keep it.
but if i cant fix the drive, had anybody got any tips on stuff to do with dead drives? (as in make them into something else really cool like a SNES APU like from my post earlier this month
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i opened it up to have had a look. the cd spins and the lens moves around, but i took the motor out to have a look and it seems to rattle! my guess would be that the motor is dying and its not spinning fast enough, but that doesnt explain why it stopped working just when i put it in the other guy's computer.
some of you might say, its just a cdrom drive, throw it out already! but i really like this drive, its the best looking drive ive ever seen (but not sexy, computer parts are <u>not</u> sexy!) so i would like to keep it.
but if i cant fix the drive, had anybody got any tips on stuff to do with dead drives? (as in make them into something else really cool like a SNES APU like from my post earlier this month
<P ID="signature">Breadcrust
http://phantasyrpg.com/main.php?view=20335Click me!, you know you want to...</a>