Guest davy Posted July 10, 2007 Posted July 10, 2007 Re: Is Win XP disk now messed up??? R_ACE1;186294 Wrote: > > Others have told me that it could be a bad video card or someother > peripheral. > Well I can't see it being the video card, be interested how they came to that conclusion, but you never know. The most likely cause is the laser or optical bloack as they are usually called, there are optic's inside the block as well to seperate the forward beam and the returned beam that has been modulated by the disc, also in the block is the focusing mechanism that moves the lens up and down and sideway's.... plenty to go wrong in them. At all cost avoid those cleaning disc with a brush fixed in the disc... the disc is spinning round like the clappers and when the poor ol' focusing mechanism with the lens hits the brush it knocks it for a home run, certainly do more harm than good. It's alway's a good idea to keep a copy 'any' important disc - just in case, as you discovered lopping it in another drive... say a DVD could also help. Your best approach would have been to try another drive in your computer first of all, at least this will confirm if it's to blame or not. The million dollar question is why do you want to install Xp because there may be some clues or underlying cause that is the root of your problems? Davy
Guest R_ACE1 Posted July 12, 2007 Posted July 12, 2007 Re: Is Win XP disk now messed up??? Re: Is Win XP disk now messed up??? Well I have done all the T/S I could do along with calling MSI and having another person stop by and having him go at it. It boils down to the North Bridge. I informed the customer and he would like to get the same motherboard put back into the computer. Does anyone have a spare MSI 648 Max (that works) they would like to part with???? LoL
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