RE: God I'm fed up!
- From: myenglishtutor <myenglishtutor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:36:01 -0700
I've just read your story.
I have no help to offer.. but my goodness! - do I sympathise with you!!!
I truly truly truly hope you get it sorted!
"Telmore" wrote:
I had an Acer laptop - it was stolen - it did most things fine - the main.
problem with it was that I could not burn DVD's -
it was always hit and miss as to whether they'd have CRC errors or not -
even writing at the slowest speed in safe mode.
I was told that probably this was due to lack of memory - it had 256mb....
The (insurance) replacement was a higher spec machine with XP Pro instead of
XP Home and 512mb instead of 256mb.
However the new laptop had a CD-rw/DVD-r combo instead of a DVD-rw that the
original had - I had this upgraded (at the
insurers expense) to a DVD-rw with a proper Acer drive fitted by a local
(but non approved) computer shop.
After about a month of use my machine developed a problem that meant that it
could not play any media from any source -
audio (mp3/audio CD/wav etc) or video (mpg, avi, DVD) from any source
(CD/DVD, hard disk, Lacie external hard disk) without
jumping and stuttering.
I tried everything I could think of and eventually 'bit the bullet' and
decided to rebuild it - to find that the recovery CD
supplied would not work with the new drive.
So I took it to the aforementioned computer shop who rebuilt it.
All was hunky dory for about a month - but now I'm back in 'jumpy/stuttery
media mode' again without any real reason
(no new programs/no viruses/spyware/defragged etc) - AND - I've discovered
that it seems incapable of writing either a CD or
DVD reliably without CRC errors - even in safe mode at the lowest write
speeds.
I really feel like throwing the bloody thing out.
My questions are:
1. Should my machine be capable of writing clean CD/DVDs (why do laptop
makers sell machines with DVD-rws if you can
never actually write one with it!) - out of a dozen CD/DVDs written only 2
DVDs are clean.
2. Can I copy my old 'recovery' disc to my hard disc and write it with a new
bootstrap that will work with my DVD-rw - so at
least I can rebuild the machine myself (I've tried this - but see point 1).
3. What might be causing my machine to be unable to play media - it seems to
me that it must be a 'system' rather than a
'sound/graphics card' or drive problem as it's so universal.
I'm really pretty fed up with it all.
Any help you can give would be much appreciated - and feel free to ask any
questions that may be of use.
Thanks in advance.
Tony
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