[olug] Hardware issue: Philips PCRW1208 CDRW is possessed

[Eric Lusk]

I've had similar problems with cd/rw drives; often you
can find an upgraded firmware and flash the drive.  Of
course, be warned the last drive I tried this on, a
dvd drive, went to the trash directly afterward.  But
it had quit reading cds and dvds anyway. :)

--- "OBrien, Timothy" <IrishMASMS at olug.org> wrote:

> My Philips PCRW1208 CDRW is possessed - sometimes
> (out of the blue, approx
> 15 min after startup) the tray opens and closes
> without any prompting;
> which then causes the PC to hang up. Only a hard
> reboot brings the PC back
> to 'normal', but it does not stop the CDRW problem.
> 
> I swapped it out with a spare CDRW drive (a Philips
> CDD4801/81), and
> everything worked fine; even copied some CDs.
> Reinstall the PCRW1208, the
> same issues occur.
> 
> I <a
>
href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gtfg&r=f">GTFG</a>
> 
> for some solutions, and <a
>
href="http://www.google.com/search?q=philips+pcrw1208&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&start=0&sa=N">found
>  that there are some others with the same problem
> but was unable to find 
> any solutions</a>.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Timothy "Irish" O'Brien
> 
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