vegetaleb
I have an internal Bluray writer in my PC for 3 years brand LG.
2 days ago I tried to burn a DVD and it was slow as hell.
Yesterday I tried to install a game from a DVD,the drive was missing in the windows drives!
Rebooted the PC and it froze on the bios page,the red led of optical drives was on all the time.
I took out the cables from the BD writer and the PC worked like a charm!
Rehooked the writer again and it froze on bios page,so it's definitely the BD writer that is causing troubles.
What do you think?
Is it totally dead or a FW flash of the writer can revive it?
The disk tray was still working
yasamoka
Seems dead, if the BIOS can't access it.
vegetaleb
This is the 2nd LG writer to die after only 3 years,I had a LG dvd writer before that died too.
Conclusion: LG s**ks,don't try to invest in their PC products.
I will get a Pioneer this time BD writer
Tried yesterday to disable ''boot on optical drive'' from bios but the PC couldn't start with it connected,so adios LG and welcome Pioneer
yasamoka
Nah, they don't suck. I've had 3 Samsung DVD burners go haywire after some time. Optical drives themselves are not very reliable. Same as HDDs.
My first Samsung DVD burner started not opening, and not burning discs properly. I got two then, and in a short while, the second started not opening and burning corrupt discs. The first now followed and is not opening except after some constant pressing.
I got one LG Blu-ray burner for me and 4 for friends. So far, we are using 3 and they are pretty fine. We're not burning, though.
Try to deal with 100 Seagate or Western Digital drives. If you get 10 that fail, would you conclude they're bad?
That's the current state of the art, unfortunately. Until we reach a purely solid-state computing experience, mechanical drives will fail.
AvoK95
LG makes on of the best optical drives in the market. If you had dead drives before, there is a reason for that. There are lots of variables. Is your PSU giving efficient 12V power to the drive? Are your SATA wires and ports all clean and not twisted the hell? Do you use lots of copied Malesian disk copies? Do you burn a lot? My LG DVDRW is in my 3rd rig right now, working like a champ. The drives are made to last you 5 years anyways, 3 years is pretty good for an optical drive. When you're buying the cheapest of the cheapest off their product line it's no doubt that it will die soon. There's a reason why it's cheap. (And don't you dare judge them with Lebanese prices).
I've built 4 duplicators with 12 LG DVDRW when I first started working when I was 16, now I'm 19 and the drives are still working. These drives are used by photographers and video editors to copy and backup tons of disk daily. If their drives didn't die, LG takes the crown. Pioneer makes great drives too, but they're known to have issues with the door in a few years.
Like yasamoka said, If you have a product that you've been using for 3 years and it died, that 1 of the 1,000,000 product off their manufactured product line. Nothing is made to last forever you know..
shant
if you are using a molex to sata power adapter, try changing it, as well as the sata data cable, i once had some problems with my optical drive due to bad power cable
vegetaleb
I tried the same cables(that were on LG) on my second HDD and they worked perfectly so it's not a dead power cable.
And no mr Avok it was far to be the cheapest LG burner ,in Christmas 2009 I got this burner for 200$ from France when it was 300$ in Lebanon,I though I am gonna invest on a durable product like you said 5 years but it just crossed 3 years.
I used to burn 3 times a week on the same Imation dvdrw disk for months,could it be the slayer of the LG?
When I connected the LG yesterday the power was clearly working on it,the micro led and tray worked but something in the drive is corrupt,perhaps the lens is dead and is corrupting the SATA to read its presence
yasamoka
Might be power delivery, might be not. Might be other causes. Might be the drive itself, we cannot know for sure. Optical drives don't last that much, unfortunately.
AvoK just gave an estimate. It could die after a month for all you know.
Sometimes yes, the medium used for burning can have an impact on the drive's lifespan. Mostly on the lens though, not the PCB.
Even in that SATA cable works on the HDD, try another cable for the burner regardless.
We cannot know about the lens. If it's not detected by the BIOS, it's most probably a PCB issue.
You're lucky, though, that new Blu-ray burners are inexpensive, relatively.
AvoK95
vegetaleb wroteI tried the same cables(that were on LG) on my second HDD and they worked perfectly so it's not a dead power cable.
And no mr Avok it was far to be the cheapest LG burner ,in Christmas 2009 I got this burner for 200$ from France when it was 300$ in Lebanon,I though I am gonna invest on a durable product like you said 5 years but it just crossed 3 years.
I used to burn 3 times a week on the same Imation dvdrw disk for months,could it be the slayer of the LG?
When I connected the LG yesterday the power was clearly working on it,the micro led and tray worked but something in the drive is corrupt,perhaps the lens is dead and is corrupting the SATA to read its presence
Molex to SATA connectors reduce efficiency. Maybe if you invested on products that matter, like let's say your power supply, things like this wouldn't happen. If you're a smoker, that makes the lense die faster. Also, if you don't use the drive at all the lense will fail eventually.
vegetaleb
I ran a live diagnostic of the intel motherboard (intel utilities) to see if power is clean on all the board, all the reports were green,so the PSU is indirectly good in terms of given voltage and amps.
Now you you can say the Lebanese Electricity is not clean and the numerous power cuts in winter because of thunders can alter some PC components,so I need a UPS or an electricity stabilisator to protect them.
This LG burner is just perhaps not reliable for long term usage,after all its not Japanese
AvoK95
vegetaleb wroteI ran a live diagnostic of the intel motherboard (intel utilities) to see if power is clean on all the board, all the reports were green,so the PSU is indirectly good in terms of given voltage and amps.
Now you you can say the Lebanese Electricity is not clean and the numerous power cuts in winter because of thunders can alter some PC components,so I need a UPS or an electricity stabilisator to protect them.
This LG burner is just perhaps not reliable for long term usage,after all its not Japanese
Dude, using software to diagnose a power supply is the most useless thing ever. Power supplies have ratings on them. If you don't have the rating, then it's no good. The brand is not good brand. I am speaking from experience and knowledge. I know what I'm talking about. These are not theories, they are proven and written all over the web. Nothing is Japanese. Even our own underwear is Chinese. It doesn't matter where it's made as long as it's an OEM. The electricity has nothing to do with electronics. The current we use in our homes are AC current, electronic components all run on DC current. They're converted and run through tons of other components before reaching the component which it runs. The power supply is the most important thing in any electronic device. If it fails, it's 90% of the current. A stabilizer will stabilize the AC current. Your PC doesn't care about the AC current. It runs on DC. You need to get a high quality component (PSU) that does an efficient job to convert AC power to DC power. AC voltage stability doesn't matter that much.
shant
regardless of the power cable dead or not, it can still malfunction (shorting out or loose plug etc) as well ad sata data, im not saying that this is the issue but it won't hurt to try it right?
