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| Thread ID: 22152 | 2002-07-13 04:24:00 | Are all benQ cd writers rubbish? | Chris Wilson (431) | Press F1 |
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| 62059 | 2002-07-13 04:24:00 | Are all benQ cd writers rubbish, or have i just had a bad run here? Ok a month ago i received a token of appreciation for some work i did, a BenQ CD writer, purchased from computerfuture In CHCH. i installed it, and at first it seemed great, i burnt 40+ CD's in a matter of just over a week, to back-up a HD. The software was good, for ease of use, i rated it 10 out of 10, then the drive started to fail in an intermittent manner. I took it back. They tested it. Of course it worked perfectly on the test bench, i took it home it worked, failed, worked, failed for the next 6 burns. I took the drive back, this time with the logs, and screen shots (www.something.net.nz) of it's failure dialogs, and got a "better" one as a replacement. They made a big deal of the "upgrade", i don't care, i just want it to work! The new one doesn't work, it was a poor CD reader, and wouldn't burn discs at all. It slowed down my system, i have since unplugged it so things can happen when i click, not 30 seconds later. I suspect after this i will go in, with obvious inpatients, and request credit on a different model. Any advise on which model/brands to buy/avoid will be appreciated! |
Chris Wilson (431) | ||
| 62060 | 2002-07-13 06:12:00 | first thing to try is shut down all the background apps you have got running when burning cd's | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 62061 | 2002-07-13 08:01:00 | benQ CDRWs are just Acer. I think they changed their name because of having such a bad reputation when it comes to cd writers. | -=JM=- (16) | ||
| 62062 | 2002-07-13 08:02:00 | argh where's teh edit function. The PC Company use benQ cd writers in their machine. |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 62063 | 2002-07-13 08:13:00 | Tweak e, When i burn CD's i shut down everything except ZA, NAV, Apache, and doze. I figure i kinda need that last one, sortof. Anyway it worked fine for the first 40something, and then failed for most after that, so i don't think it was overload of my poor widdle machine. I also experermented to see what i could get away with, and it seems i could do enough to slow the machine down, and still get a good burn on top of that. This was much to my surprise! -=JM=- i take it by your responce that you think benQ tend to be a tad rubbishy????????? |
Chris Wilson (431) | ||
| 62064 | 2002-07-13 10:30:00 | BenQ cd writers are rubbish. A friend of mine bought a computer from pc company that came with BenQ cd writer. After a few days the drive started to give him problems and he had wasted a lot of blank cds. There was nothing wrong with his system nor the software, it was just the drive. So he took it back and pc company replaced the drive with another drive straight away without asking back for the drive. He gave me that BenQ drive and it's giving me problems as well. Simply the writers suck. 2 of his friends have had the same problem as well. They bought the computers from pc company with BenQ writers on them and have been getting problems from the drive. I'm looking to replace this BenQ with another writer even though I got it for free. A lot of people are having problems with the drives as far as i know. | boom23 (176) | ||
| 62065 | 2002-07-13 11:00:00 | computerfuture tell me they are no longer stocking benQ's as they have had a few of them returned. I am hardly surprised! The one they gave me as a replacement is one that i assume came out of someone elses machine, as it wasn't boxed. In all fairness they seem genuinely embarrassed. They did offer to try to fix the problem with the drive in my machine at "no charge to me". I am reluctant to take my machine in to them as it also runs as a webserver, so it's kinda uncool to shut it down, and take it off site. I haven't heard anyone say anything good about BenQ, so i am forced to assume they are utter rubbish! |
Chris Wilson (431) | ||
| 62066 | 2002-07-13 12:50:00 | Hi Chris, When I am using my CDWriter, I go off line..... close everything down. Why would you want to be on the internet while burning CDs? Regards, BALDY |
Baldy (26) | ||
| 62067 | 2002-07-13 12:55:00 | Sorry Chris, My old eyes are playing up again LOL. Just read why you need to be online....... |
Baldy (26) | ||
| 62068 | 2002-07-13 13:28:00 | Hello Chris, Your problem actually relates more to the Nero burning software your using rather than the Benq writer. A look at the Nero support page offers you a number of possible fixes for the problem. It is typical of users to blame writers for all burning problems, when in actual fact they are often no more to blame than the software or PC user, my experience would be in about equal shares. For instance users are often quite ignorant of the fact that modern CDRW drives require about 900MB of free HD space on the C: drive to perform up to specification and even with buffer underun prevention technology the less resources running while burning the better (you seem to have a large number running in the screenshot provided, it certainly won't help) The reason you burn some CD's succesfully and fail with others could have a lot to do with the type of CD your burning eg: audio or data the resources being used at the time and the length of time your PC has been running. Normally if a writer fails it fails, it does not write sometimes and not others, this type of behaviour is invariably caused by specific problems on the users PC and explains why the writer worked perfectly in a test situation. Alan |
Alan Cottrell (624) | ||
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