New Hard Drive has begun rattling

captaincranky · Jun 17, 2008

mewi said:

My DVD burner ( purchased at the exact time as the hard drive ) has seemingly stopped reading cd's/dvd's this happened right after I finished burning a CD with it. I used PowerISO to burn the CD. As you could imagine, I am quite annoyed at this point with all the failure hardware... lets hope the power supply is not next -__-

So what happens is... I place the CD/DVD in and the light blinks for awhile then eventually stops, it tends to cause massive lag as well... and yes the drive was functioning perfectly before my last CD burn. I also noted that when I attempted to boot my PC with a CD in the drive... that when I attempted to enter bios it would freeze there at "Entering Setup..." until I ejected the CD... did my dvd drive die? -.-'
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827135163

Who are you in real life, the Grim Reaper?

mewi · Jun 17, 2008

captaincranky said:

Who are you in real life, the Grim Reaper?

Only part time but I only deal in Macintosh hardware DEATH TO APPLE.....

Anywayyyy this sucks... D:

mewi · Jun 23, 2008

By the way, I have received an RMA extension for both the DVD burner and the drive, I issued a refund for the harddrive and they were kind enough to extend my RMA so that I would have enough time to purchase another hard drive ( im going for 2x this time... ) and transfer the files to it.

I requested a replacement for the DVD Burner seeing as how the reviews didn't really seem to match my case... So I took it as a rare situation for my specific drive type.

Nice thing is, they are paying all shipping costs! Talk about high quality customer service ^^"

captaincranky said:

Here's a link for the standard 250 GB drive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148262
$60.00 + free shipping, 5 stars. It comes with a 5 year warranty, which hopefully you won't need. Plus,you'd have a bit of money left over. They're not always giving free shipping, so better hurry.

captaincranky, these are the exact hard drives you have in your system? Can you vouch the quality? If you put your ear a few inches to the drive while it is read/writing, can you hear it?

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