Re: LG DVD ROM

Eve Kotyk wrote:
> A weird thing happened yesterday. I tried to watch a DVD on my
> computer using Kaffeine. The sound was terrible, skipping to silence
> in some places. Then Kaffeine crashed.
>
> So I booted into Windows, and the same thing happened except that it
> crashed the whole machine. In fact it powered down, and wouldn't start
> up again for awhile. This really freaked me out because I couldn't
> imagine what could do that.
>
> I tried the movie DVD in my laptop and everything was fine.
>
> I have wondered about this DVD ROM for some time. Almost anything I
> try to burn in it comes out bad. What would cause it to shut my
> machine down though? I thought it might be a heat problem, but don't
> know why it would generate so much heat.
>
> I run Mandrake 2007.0 Free, AMD 2400+, 767 mg RAM.
>
> Does anyone have any idea why this would happen?
>
> Eve
>
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I would almost say the drive is dead myself. Power going in almost
seems like its coming out too. The only other thing that could effect a
DVD playing situation like that would be if the video card is
overheating (check the fan if its got one).

just my 2 cents.

-James
Received on Sun Jan 7 19:33:34 2007