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**FateHostera** · 10-02-2006, 07:00 AM

It is also possible the laser has become misaligned. This can happen and render a drive unable to write, and yet be still capable of reading discs...at least for awhile.

Hmmm, I can't see how this could happen to my system after lugging it to at least 22 LAN parties... I mean, I was careful...

Thanks for the tip. I'll want to consider and test that when I rebuild. (My system is still in need of rebuild due to other OS/software related flakiness.) Ignoring the physical drive considerations reminds me of the day I spent 10 hours building a system... I completed the assembly in 20 minutes, but I left the power supply switched to 220 rather than 110. I spent the whole day swapping parts trying to figure out why it wouldn't boot.

10-02-2006, 07:00 AM	#15
FateHostera Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 564 Senior Member	It is also possible the laser has become misaligned. This can happen and render a drive unable to write, and yet be still capable of reading discs...at least for awhile. Hmmm, I can't see how this could happen to my system after lugging it to at least 22 LAN parties... I mean, I was careful... Thanks for the tip. I'll want to consider and test that when I rebuild. (My system is still in need of rebuild due to other OS/software related flakiness.) Ignoring the physical drive considerations reminds me of the day I spent 10 hours building a system... I completed the assembly in 20 minutes, but I left the power supply switched to 220 rather than 110. I spent the whole day swapping parts trying to figure out why it wouldn't boot.
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