DVD/RW drive problems

[jholland1964]

Thanks. We all will keep looking too of course. Problems like this drive all of us nuts here. If you get the answer first please post it.
When you say you were previously having problems using the drives...what were those problems? I would think they possibly are related. Were these drives installed by you personally?

Have you tried the HP Live Chat line? I have used this multiple times for various problems and it really helped each time. Even for things which were out of warranty. Don't know if Sony has the same thing or not but you might look into it.

[JayArras]

I heard back from Sony, and they feel the drive is toast if it will not read any cds and the drive check test will not run at all.

[JayArras]

I've been doing a little research to see if anyone else is experiencing a similiar problem, and it appears that the Sony DRU710A is just a bad product that has had a number of problems. Here's two threads on other boards that talk specifically about this DVD drive:

http://club.cdfreaks.com/f44/sony-dr...oblems-132196/

http://www.techspot.com/vb/all/windo...D-DRU710A.html

I even changed the ribbon cable hoping that connectivity was the issue.

I'm throwing in the towel on this one. I'm still working on the HP CD-Writer issue.

Can anyone recommend a good quality reasonably priced DVD/RW drive?

[cauzomb]

I've Nevery had any issues with Toshiba, Samsung, or Lite-on.