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| dvd-rw | 10/21/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: Greetings Roy I have an LG dvd recorder - GSA-4081B - and until yesterday, it worked perfectly. Now ...
A: I think it's time I quit this! I had a similar problem just a few weeks ago, and I can't for the ...
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| dvd-rw | 10/20/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: Greetings Roy I have an LG dvd recorder - GSA-4081B - and until yesterday, it worked perfectly. Now ...
A: a GSA-4081B that's 6 months old is a rara avis in itself, I had one and replaced it with a GSA-4163B ...
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| CD rom from HELL! | 10/19/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: I have a new IBM computer the CD rom that was in it acted "weird" would play music CD's but when I ...
A: this is an obvious system fault. Whether it's a hardware fault with the IDE channels on the ...
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| DVD-ROM Drive won't play DVDs sometimes | 10/19/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: Unfortunately, Time computers went under in August due to being an inferior company customers grew ...
A: Sorry to hear that, I knew Tiny had gone under a while ago, but not Time. From personal observation ...
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| Peripheral Detection | 10/18/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: I've recently had my PC re-formatted as it had problems with the Win XP OS. Its back in its original ...
A: Are you sure that you still have this hardware? The AWE64 is a pig to install under XP, and I have ...
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| DVD-ROM Drive won't play DVDs sometimes | 10/18/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: I bought my (2.6 GHZ Athlon PC Windows XP) computer 6 months ago from a rather dubious ...
A: What you have is a faulty DVD drive. These are basically two drives in one, they use a dual laser ...
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| CDROM drivers unable to load - Code 31? | 10/17/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: I have two CDROM drives an HP CD-Writer Plus, and a Sony generic CDROM, read only. Both have worked ...
A: This sounds like an IDE driver problem to me. The two most common causes of driver failures for ...
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| DVD problems | 10/17/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: I am using a brand new system which is operating on XP. It has 2 DVDdrives one of which is a DVD ...
A: Check the disk you are inserting. Sounds to me as though you may have put in a CDR by mistake. DVDRs ...
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| cd and dvd dont read blanks | 10/16/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: we are running windows xp, as far as software, i have a few programs i use roxio and i just tryo to ...
A: I sort of get the impression that you are not terribly experienced at writing to CDs,I may be wrong, ...
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| problems with sound cards line out | 10/15/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: i connect the cable to my music centre's line in (there is twho holes) and then into a sound card's ...
A: sounds like you have the correct hook up, and I assume that you are selecting the correct input ...
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| Short cuts and My Computer | 10/13/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: Using Windows XP Prof. None of my previously working short cuts will now pick up the program. Cannot ...
A: sounds like XP is toast! Just put the XP CD in the drive, switch on the PC, go into the CMOS setup ...
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| replace drive | 10/10/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: I have an HP multi media computer. It is 16 months old. It has a 160G hard drive & 512 memory. I am ...
A: yep, you got it in one! The laser has become so degraded that it can neither read nor write and a ...
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| d:\ and e:\ drives | 10/9/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: I am running Windows XP Professional on my computer. The CDRW and DVD drives are not working. When ...
A: I'm afraid you are working under the assumption that if you drag and drop files to your CD-RW, that ...
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| Disappearing CD-RW drive... | 10/7/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: I've got a bit of a curious problem with the CD burner on my PC. At boot, the BIOS sees it and it ...
A: this is a problem with win2000, even NT can get flakey after a while, and then all manner of strange ...
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| My disk drive isn't reading anymore! | 10/6/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: I'm running on Windows 2000/NT, and my Dvd and CD/RW drives, used to work a little bit ago. But now, ...
A: sounds like you have a hardware problem. If it had been just one drive I'd have thought it was the ...
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| sometimes sees CD and sometimes not | 10/6/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: I have a Gateway Solo 1150 laptop running WinME and it has a strange problem. Sometimes it sees the ...
A: there are two possibilities. Either you have a disk in the drive which it is struggling to read, ...
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| Hi Roy, you spent some time... | 10/6/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: you spent some time a few days ago replying to my question concerning files not showing on the dvd ...
A: this sounds more and more like a failing laptop drive. It is trying hard to read the disk but not ...
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| Windows Error... | 10/5/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: Bonner, I would like to seek your help about my problem in my Sony DVD-RW model DRU-800A, when I ...
A: if you were frustrated with Dell, you're going to hate me! I need to know exactly how you are trying ...
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| Taskbar items shifting | 10/5/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: Howdy Roy, Can you tell me how to correct my Taskbar so that it will keep more than two open online ...
A: this is only a problem if you don't like this behaviour, XP by default, groups all multiple ...
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| CD-Drive | 10/3/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: CD-Drive manufacturer: Creative My CD-drive doesnt work. It accepts all CDs, but doesn't play any ...
A: yes, buy a new one, the laser has expired, or at least is so far gone that it can't read anymore. ...
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| encountering cd rom problem | 10/2/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: I have just bought 10 to 15 video tutorial cds, But when i pop them in the computer, It shows a ...
A: it sounds like there is an incompatibility between the executable on the disks and your version of ...
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| dvd/cdrw drive not seeing files | 10/1/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: I have a dvd/cdrw drive and when I put the dvd with data on it and open the drive to view the files ...
A: there are a multitude of reasons why this could be the case, and to be in with a shout of finding ...
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| dvd | 9/29/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: i know this question is beneath you, but how do you connect a dvd player to a tv cable box. i ...
A: Not even sure if you can to be honest, there is a form of copy protection on DVDs which destabilises ...
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| cd rom won't read data disks | 9/29/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: I recently had problems with my wifes computer and now it will boot again but I need to reinstall ...
A: there are two possibilities here, either the CD drive has a failed laser, in which case you need to ...
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| update BIOS | 9/29/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: can i update the BIOS which suports USB2.0. plz tell me the procedure to update BIOS. System ...
A: there is little point I'm afraid, you only have USB1 hardware on the board. The USB2 card works ...
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| Installing a CD-ROM | 9/28/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: I did what you said and installed a new XP, but what you didn't say was I would have to re-install ...
A: I'm sorry, I didn't think it would be necessary to tell you that you should do the upgrade or repair ...
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| samsung cdrw/dvd sm-3088 | 9/27/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: I can't burn a CD, when I put a blank CD in mi Samsung cdrw/dvd sm-3088 the device light is flashing ...
A: sorry, your drive's CD laser, or it's associated circuitry is faulty, and it is failing to recognise ...
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| Installing a CD-ROM | 9/27/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: I took my computer to be repaired and everything went well except for my dvd burner stopped being ...
A: whoever you took your system to for repair has only done half a job. You should be able to return it ...
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| boot from external DVD | 9/26/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: I have Celeron 1.2GHZ processor, 256MB RAM, 40GB HDD with windowsXP(SP2). My motherboard is of ...
A: you have basically answered your own question already, it can't boot from the USB2 ports because at ...
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| DVD RW problem | 9/24/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: Tomorrow morning I started to burn dvds with my Samsung writemaster 8* drive and the following ...
A: there's a very simple answer to your question. You can't fix it. The laser was about shot before you ...
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| High speed CD-RW | 9/23/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: Purchased Memorex high speed CD-RW Disc rewhitable compact disc for CD writers Trying to record ...
A: OK, so what CD burning software do you have? I assume you know that you can't just save files to a ...
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| DVD RW not playing | 9/22/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: Roy, Just bought an Averatec 3300 notebook (OS is XP)with a DVD RW. I am unable to play DVDs. It ...
A: in all probability it's just that you haven't set the country code for your drive. Go to the device ...
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| USB2 | 9/22/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: My Dell computer has USB ports, but not USB2. The new iPod nano uses USB2. Will it work on USB? If ...
A: USB transfers at 1.1Mb / sec, and USB2 at up to 48Mb / sec, as I recall iPods have quite a large ...
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| DVD Playback is Jerky | 9/21/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: Well I took out and turned off everything I could think of and defragged the HD. This made no ...
A: very strange, let's go over the basics one more time. First, you have turned on DMA for both the DVD ...
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| cd | 9/20/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: How did I know my computer has a cd-ron or cd-r
A: generally speaking, most CD drives have the speed of the drive printed on the front panel. If there ...
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| DVD Playback is Jerky | 9/20/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: I have just installed a Samsung TS-H492 CD-RW/DVD Drive into a Compaq Deskpro EN SFF computer ...
A: it certainly should be able to cope with playing a DVD, but I suspect you are running too many other ...
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| Cd-rom drive letter missing | 9/19/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: For some reason my cd-rom drive letter does not show in Explorer. It's like the d: drive ...
A: gissa break!! Give me some information to work with please, at the very least I need to know a bit ...
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| CD-ROM CD | 9/19/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: This pertains to copying a music CD. Someone made a copy using a blank CD with "Recordable" printed ...
A: The only differences between ordinary CDRs and Digital Audio CDRs are the price and one marker bit ...
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| DVD media type - which? | 9/18/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: first, thank you for being a volunteer. i just bought a SONY DWQ-28A burner which will burn +/- & ...
A: Welcome to the wonderful world of DVD video. Ok, DVD-R is the official world standard for DVD disks ...
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| cd's | 9/17/2005 | Roy Bonner |
Q: Can you explain the difference between a music CD and a CD which id used just for documents etc
A: there is no physical difference at all, except that by convention, music CDs are always single ...
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