Solve : New CD/DVD Drive for old Rig?

1.	Solve : New CD/DVD Drive for old Rig?
Answer» SIL's HP 753n has separate CD and DVD drives and both are original 12 year old jobs. Not 100% sure but think neither have burn CAPABILITY, just read. While working on this oldster, I discovered the DVD drive is not working just right. Unless you have a Win 7 disk installed, it will not GO through the boot sequence and allow boot-up from the C drive. As it tries to boot-up, you get a nasty grinding noise from the drive (I assume DVD, not CD). I got it to boot by changing the sequence to boot first from the C drive. Can I replace the old individual CD and DVD drives with one modern combo CD/DVD reader/burner? Thanks.You can... just be sure to get IDE as for your motherboard doesnt have the latest SATA. I have a few CD/DVD ROM drives that are combo drives from LG and they still work well although the burner feature only burns CD's not DVD's. I also have a few DVD-RW drives that are IDE ATA100 drives and they also work well. These have been obsolete for a few YEARS though and so you might have to hunt around for an IDE DVD ROM. Also DVD ROM drives can read backwards to CD's so no need for a CD/DVD drive when a DVD drive would work the same. If you want to burn disks though, you will want to get a CD-RW/DVD or DVD-RW drive. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&docname=bph07843 Lastly, if you wanted this system to have SATA drives, you could always add a PCI SATA 150 adapter, but modern 3 and 6 MB/s drives would run at only 1.5MB/s. This isnt a problem for optical drives, but will slow down a HDD or SSD to comply with the bus bottleneck of the PCI BUS. ** Some BIOS's can be a pain with getting a system to boot off of a added controller card such as adding a SATA 150 controller card to the PCI slot. So not guaranteed to work with your specific system, but if it does work, you would be able to install larger capacity drives and new drives vs stuck with old. Most would suggest replacing the Motherboard/CPU/RAM vs forcing the old motherboard to do new tricks, but I have forced old boards to run newer hardware before and so it can be done in some situations. Quote from: artbuc on August 17, 2014, 09:24:53 AM Not 100% sure but think neither have burn capability, just read. If they have burning capability, they will using say "Rewritable" somewhere on the front, sometimes in very small letters. But, it does sound like the old drive is failing. If you replace it with a DVD burner it'll do the work of both drives.

Answer»

SIL's HP 753n has separate CD and DVD drives and both are original 12 year old jobs. Not 100% sure but think neither have burn CAPABILITY, just read. While working on this oldster, I discovered the DVD drive is not working just right. Unless you have a Win 7 disk installed, it will not GO through the boot sequence and allow boot-up from the C drive. As it tries to boot-up, you get a nasty grinding noise from the drive (I assume DVD, not CD). I got it to boot by changing the sequence to boot first from the C drive. Can I replace the old individual CD and DVD drives with one modern combo CD/DVD reader/burner? Thanks.You can... just be sure to get IDE as for your motherboard doesnt have the latest SATA. I have a few CD/DVD ROM drives that are combo drives from LG and they still work well although the burner feature only burns CD's not DVD's. I also have a few DVD-RW drives that are IDE ATA100 drives and they also work well. These have been obsolete for a few YEARS though and so you might have to hunt around for an IDE DVD ROM. *Also DVD ROM drives can read backwards to CD's so no need for a CD/DVD drive when a DVD drive would work the same. If you want to burn disks though, you will want to get a CD-RW/DVD or DVD-RW drive.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&docname=bph07843

Lastly, if you wanted this system to have SATA drives, you could always add a PCI SATA 150 adapter, but modern 3 and 6 MB/s drives would run at only 1.5MB/s. This isnt a problem for optical drives, but will slow down a HDD or SSD to comply with the bus bottleneck of the PCI BUS.

*** Some BIOS's can be a pain with getting a system to boot off of a added controller card such as adding a SATA 150 controller card to the PCI slot. So not guaranteed to work with your specific system, but if it does work, you would be able to install larger capacity drives and new drives vs stuck with old.

Most would suggest replacing the Motherboard/CPU/RAM vs forcing the old motherboard to do new tricks, but I have forced old boards to run newer hardware before and so it can be done in some situations. Quote from: artbuc on August 17, 2014, 09:24:53 AM

Not 100% sure but think neither have burn capability, just read.

If they have burning capability, they will using say "Rewritable" somewhere on the front, sometimes in very small letters. But, it does sound like the old drive is failing. If you replace it with a DVD burner it'll do the work of both drives.

Solve : New CD/DVD Drive for old Rig?

Discussion

No Comment Found

Related InterviewSolutions

Reply to Comment