Plextor makea a slim bus powered DVD burner. Newegg is out of stock but
has them for $140. Honestly, I think you're probably SOL on the Compaq
burner. Fortunately the Plextor replacement should be cheaper than the
Compaq replacement.
Winterlight wrote:
I am working on a Compaq Evo 510 Ultra Slim that uses a laptop plug in
CD drive . It isn't working right. It appears normally and when I tried
to insert a factory data CD = Logitech drivers, the CD started spinning
up, Windows appeared to try and load it but when I went to access the CD
Windows reported <insert a disk>.
There is nothing wrong with the CD, I have tried the CD in other
computers and it works fine. And this drive had the same problem with
multiple CDs.
The first thing I did was to pull it out, open it up and blow off the
lens with a blast of air. This helped, now when I put a CD in it knows
it has a disk, but every disk is seen as a audio disk with a single
track, that of course doesn't play because it isn't a audio disk. Maybe
the lens is still dirty, what is the best way to clean it... with a
brush and 99% alcohol , or a qtip and alcohol, or what?
Normally I would just change the drive, but this in a proprietary drive,
I can't get a normal one in there. This thing is set up with six USB2
ports so an external burner would be perfect, but the native one is
going to be more convenient for this owner.
Any other ideas or tricks to fix it... these things are too expensive to
replace. Anybody have one in their junk pile they want to sell?
model 217396-630 / Compaq Spare 100044-001
thanks
