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 PostPosted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 7:53 pm 
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I have spent a few hours on this Forum trying to troubleshoot to no avail! I have a Compaq Presario 2500 Pentium 4 1.6GHz with Windows XP Pro SP2. I bought this Laptop from a friend and I am fixing it and trying to get it to run smoothly. The DVD/CD drive will read DVD's but will not read CD's. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the drive but no success. Any help?

DISCINFO VERSION : 1.6.1.6
VENDOR : HL-DT-ST
MODEL : RW/DVD GCC-4241N
REVISION : 0C27
VENDOR SPECIFIC : 0BCBA 03/04/30
LOADING MECHANISM : Tray
NUMBER VOL. LEVELS : 256
BUFFER SIZE : 2048KB
INTERFACE : ATAPI
RPC2 SCHEME : YES
STATUS : Not Set
USER CHANGES : 5
VENDOR CHANGES : 4
CURRENT REGION : Not set
ANALOG AUDIO PLAY : YES
COMPOSITE OUTPUT : NO
DIGITAL PORT-PORT1 : NO
DIGITAL PORT-PORT2 : NO
READ UPC CODE : YES
MULTISESSION READ : YES
MODE 2 FORM 1 : YES
MODE 2 FORM 2 : YES
READ ISRC CODE : YES
READ BAD CODE : NO
BUFFER UNDER-RUN : YES
MT. RAINIER : NO
CAN READ CDR : YES
CAN READ CDRW : YES
CAN READ CDRM2 : YES
CAN WRITE CDR : YES
CAN WRITE CDRW : YES
CAN TEST WRITE : YES
CAN READ DVD-ROM : YES
CAN READ DVD-R : YES
CAN READ DVD-RW : YES
CAN READ DVD-RAM : YES
CAN READ DVD+R : YES
CAN READ DVD+RW : YES
CAN WRITE DVD-R : NO
CAN WRITE DVD-RW : NO
CAN WRITE DVD-RAM : NO
CAN WRITE DVD+R : NO
CAN WRITE DVD+RW : NO
MAX CDR READ SPEED : 24
MAX CDR WRITE SPEED: 24


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 PostPosted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 8:02 pm 
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tried cleaning it? do you recieve any error messages, disc just spins? or no response at all?

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 PostPosted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 8:20 pm 
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tried cleaning it? Yes

do you recieve any error messages, No Error Messages

disc just spins? It sounds like it is spinning. Green light flashes. DVD's work fine.

or no response at all? No Response after spinning. In My Computer there is nothing when the CD/DVD drive is clicked on. With DVD's the name of the DVD is listed in My Computer.

Thanks.


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 PostPosted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 1:45 am 
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In My Computer there is nothing when the CD/DVD drive is clicked on. With DVD's the name of the DVD is listed in My Computer


drive is not recognising there is any CDR media in it, sounds like a hardware issue, how old is this drive?

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 PostPosted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 3:00 am 
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About 6 years old. I paid $100 for the laptop and it works great except this issue. I am starting to think it is hardware also. Thanks for your help.


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 PostPosted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:51 pm 
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The optical lens inside the GCC-4241N DVD drive could be either dirty or worn out (especially if you make the drive read dirty or scratched CDs/DVDs). Try out the DVD lens cleaning tips from this forum page:
http://club.cdfreaks.com/f89/how-safely ... ns-144525/

If the cleaning tips there don't help improve the situation, then the DVD drive may eventually have to be replaced.

I'm currently using my cousin's HP/Compaq Presario 2108US laptop with WinXP SP3 Pro that also has the HL-DT-ST GCC-4241N DVD drive with firmware revision OC29. The DVD drive there can still read almost any type of CDs/DVDs except HD DVD discs and CD+G discs.


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 PostPosted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 7:03 pm 
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ep-ml3g wrote:
I'm currently using my cousin's HP/Compaq Presario 2108US laptop with WinXP SP3 Pro that also has the HL-DT-ST GCC-4241N DVD drive with firmware revision OC29. The DVD drive there can still read almost any type of CDs/DVDs except HD DVD discs and CD+G discs.


This combo cannot ever read HD DVD discs and CD+G is only readable/writeable with few drives.

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I am looking for DVD-R for Authoring DVD-R (A) & HD-DVD media, any size, any brand. Please pm me if you can help. \:D/

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 PostPosted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 11:26 pm 
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Hi,
I am trying to install a new HDD in a mate's Compaq NX9010 with a HL-DT-ST GCC-4241N DVD drive Firmware OC29. I could not get any OS CD's to boot but it tried a Windows 7 DVD OK. Then replaced old HDD and XP will run any DVD but not a single CD. I suppose it is time for him to buty a new drive as it is old kit now and the firmware was the last available but could there be any other solution please :roll:


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 PostPosted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 10:35 am 
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Location: .de #...still playing LLAMATRON! # sprite killing around level 138 and higher....
New drive of course.

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