AOPEN 1232pro CD-RW is a very picky cd reader/writer

picky as in it decides to spin only one cd
and doesn't wanna spin anything else.
only one cd is read out of the many that i have, all normal legal cd's that used to wrok until some time ago. i also can't burn properly.
hhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeelpppppppp

Is it USB?

My USB CDRW was being picky with me for a while. Turns out that leaving it turned on 24/7 made it unhappy :(. So I just started turning it off when I don't use it and it works.

Otherwise try reinstalling the drivers or look for updates or something.

i dont think so, it's inside the tower :choc:

also i never leave the comp on for more then 7 hours at a time

i dont think it came with any drivers. if there are any, they'd be on a cd but IT WONT READ THE CD :{{{

tried to get firmware for it
tried to get aspi or whatever reinstalled too
one cd spins and only that one. it makes 0 sense. i'll beat it up

edit: the one cd it does read cannot be read by any other computer for some reason. different sort of data read/write type? but it used to read everything before. now it only reads this one thing. doesnt even notice blank cd-r's in it.

Is this one CD a CD burned by the drive itself? If so, then it's probably the drive is damaged or failing somehow, and you need to get a new one.

:-[

ok thanks.


edit: update! two cd's work (yes both burnt on this cdrw), but these two cd's also work on my sister's dvd player.

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