When I had my first machine my rate of cd/dvd drive changing was 1 in every year and a half. I used to have an Asus K8V-Se deluxe, with 1 gBRam, AMD-64 of 2gHz and a good power supply. At first I thought it was normal, since I used to burn a lot of disks, DVD's and CD's. In that machine I changed Toshiba, Sony, Optorite, Lite-On, and such. I had that machine for maybe 5 years. I have a new machine now: Biostar T-Series, AMD-Athlon 64 Dual 2.60 GHz, 2 GB RAM and 650 Watts Power Supply. Right now I have a LiteOn and LGDVD "Multi Recorders" from CompUsa (they MAY have a year now); and yet again those 2 are failing.
I never have a problem with data, only in doing Music CD's or making DVD movies (with their Video_TS and all). I can make a music CD and read it perfectly in my car-radio. Others (using the same Nero as always) I can't make it work in my cd-player but it can play fine in the PC. Same thing happens with DVD's. Sometimes I can see it in my DVD player and others I can't.
I burn in the lowest speed and nothing. I have changed media: nothing. I check regularly for driver updates: nothing. My HDD's are up to date: defragmented and clean. I don't burn as many disks as I used to. I have a UPC to protect my PC. I refuse to think that my PC is damaging the disk drives because this is almost an entirely new machine (with the exception of the case). I have talk with friends and they don't seem to have that kind of problem with theirs; yes they buy new drives from time to time but not one every 18 months. If anyone have any kind of theory to my predicament please share it, because I'm fresh out of ideas.
