Well, last night I was playing DVD movie using my 3 years-old NEC 3540A burner. Suddenly, i heard some noises coming from the driver, something like 'crick' 'crick' 'crick'. So i ejected the tray and insert it back. After that, it cant read disc anymore!!! I was like cause I think I haven't use it to burn more than 100+ discs and it fails me.

Today further inspection i found out that when i put in disc, the disc is not rotate at all. So i assumed that might be the rotator not working or maybe ran out of lubricant. I opened the casing and started to ripping them apart. To my surprise, i found tat the ribbon that connect the lens module to the main board was plugged out!! I connected it back and voila!!! My driver resurrected!!!

what surprised me most is that how the ribbon can loosen out from the connector as it is something like clipping on to the ribbon. Just like how you wear your belt, tuck it in and clip it. And I tried tat even if the clip is not clipped onto the ribbon, the ribbon can still sit tightly there. So i wondering is it manufacture defect, or something purposely done to shorten its life span?

Most of the people when having malfunctioning hardware wont bother to check thoroughly and straight throw it away. I almost did that last night, and I even hunting round trading corner to get myself another DVD burner. But luckily i opened it up to inspect it. Now I have a fully working driver and i think it loads faster too comparing to last time i think. ha...

So lesson learnt today, always try to fix before u throw.

Thanks for reading

haha... at least u give it a try before giving up on them... so u wont wondering whether it is still useable when u throwing it away... hehe... i just wanna to share what i did today, hoping tat maybe one day u facing the same situation and able to fix it on ur own... provided it is not any major problem

to kagaya, mind to share some pics of the internal of the HDD if u have? curious to see hehe...

yea... but i think if it is burnt chipset, then no chance to repair anymore...

ya... i took it of... hehe...
hmmm... i dun get wat the mod saying mind to guide us through the mist?

ohh... got it thanks alot mod!!! will try it next time when it is skipping^^