Ive been burning backups with a Pioneer 111D Burner, ive had this burner for about 1 year now, but it seems to fail reading discs or not finding any disc, does this assume my burner is dead now; possibly a bad laser or somthing, can i replace the laser myself or somthing.
I dont want to invest into buying another Pioneer 111D Burner, but would the Pioneer 112D Burner work fine or others?
the laser is probably dirty. i'd say try one of those laser cleaner discs.
It's more cost effective to just buy another drive than to replace laser. 111d is $30 shipped these days.
antoher thing i remebered: if you don't want to buy a cleaner disc, you can oopen up the drive untill you see the lens, then blow really hard on it and wipe it with a lens paper. i have revived 3 or 4 drives and cd players this way.
I just got home; I bought some can of compressed air so i can try cleaning the dvd rom drive; but im gonna take it apart and clean it.
Hopefully itll do the trick; but I do not have a lense laser cleaner. what could you recommend to clean the laser, green alochol with qtip or somthing..
