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Article #3783HP 7200i problem - can't read, laser dirty ?
From: Lorenz Graf
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 00:00
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 00:00
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Hello, I have a problem with my HP 7200i. I bought it about 6 month ago and 3 days ago it suddenly stopped working. I cannot record CDs, I cannot write to CD-RWs and I cannot read CDs with my drive. The drive attempts to read an inserted CD, the lights flash for a pretty long time and then it seems to 'give up': the light stops flashing and I can open the CD drive in the explorer but the CD seems to be empty. First I thought it might be software related and reinstalled all the software. But then I inserted a music CD in my drive and after a long time of reading it recognized the CD as an audio CD (audio icon in the explorer). However I couldn't listen to it. So I now think it actually is a hardware problem. Now my questions are: - Has anyone ever had similar problems ? - Can one use cleaning CD-ROMs with the HP drive (in case the laser is dirty; I used my computer for a long time without its case)? - Anyone out there got some other useful ideas ??? Please answer fast as I got some important data on my CD-RWs. Best regards, Lorenz PS: If it isn't too much work for you, could you please e-mail me at lgraf @ gmx.de as I also got trouble reading newsgroups at the moment. Some times it works, some times it doesn't. I should change my ISP.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10f3c1,fbdfcee816bd4fa6,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10f3c1,public X-Google-Thread: fe411,fbdfcee816bd4fa6,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfe411,public X-Google-Thread: 1076d4,fbdfcee816bd4fa6,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1076d4,public X-Google-Thread: 10d752,fbdfcee816bd4fa6,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10d752,public X-Google-Thread: f5f89,fbdfcee816bd4fa6,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf5f89,public X-Google-Thread: f4d7c,fbdfcee816bd4fa6,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf4d7c,public X-Google-Thread: 104cf5,fbdfcee816bd4fa6,start X-Google-Attributes: gid104cf5,public From: "Lorenz Graf" <do_not@spam.me> Subject: HP 7200i problem - can't read, laser dirty ? Date: 1999/02/17 Message-ID: <7ael6g$b0s$1@freenet-b.fen.baynet.de> X-Deja-AN: 445333901 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 X-Complaints-To: news@fen.baynet.de X-Trace: freenet-b.fen.baynet.de 919263248 11292 194.95.193.115 (17 Feb 1999 14:54:08 GMT) Organization: Free-Net Erlangen Nuernberg Fuerth Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Feb 1999 14:54:08 GMT Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.periphs.cdr,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.cd-rom,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.windows.misc,it.comp.hardware.storage