Optical drive laser misalign guidance

[Roland Smith]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 01:15:42AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Not sure if this is the best location to ask, but I have to see anyhow...
> 
> Just wondering if anyone has had any verifiable experience with 
> misaligned lasers in optical drives, and I was curious how they fixed 
> the issue if they got that far.
> 
> I'm asking since I have 2 optical drives-both DVD+/-RW and both have 
> apparently failed to the point where they will either barely read 
> CD-R/Ws and not read DVDs at all (Liteon SOHW-1633S), or not DVD media 
> and CD media is read slowly (Sony DRU-500A).

A couple of years ago I had a Philips CD-RW drive that stopped
burning. It did still read CD's. Since it was out of warranty, I tossed
it in the bin and replaced it with a Plextor.

Roland
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