DVD drive cooking discs?

box2k2 · April 19th, 2003

Recently my DVD Drive (LG 8120b) has really been heating discs up whilst reading them. This has got to the point that they can be uncomfortable to hold (or amusing if applied to someone else

) after a 45 minute divx movie.

I'm assuming this is bad, but does anyone know what this is or why?

**Iceman** · April 19th, 2003

I would check your internal temps, (case, cpu, hard drive, sounds like the system is running hot.) but I have heard of dvd/cd players doing that

box2k2 · April 25th, 2003

nope.

cd rw is fine, case temps are acceptable and the cpu is chillin'

it's just that dvd drive

**Taurus** · April 25th, 2003

you sure it's only been doing that recently? that would be odd if it didn't use to do that.

if i'm ever going to access files off of a cd/dvd (music, movie, etc), i copy them to teh hd, first... so the optical drive isn't spinning the whole time. prevents wear and tear.

djwhite · April 27th, 2003

My DVD did that too (Pioneer DVD-114). One day I could smell that burnt electronics smell that everyone fears, so I replaced it with a LiteOn drive and had no problems since. The old one was a 2 years old I think, started making discs very hot after about 18 months.

April 19th, 2003	Top \| #1
box2k2 OSNN Addict Joined: July 2002 Posts: 62 Reputation: 0 Power: 117	DVD drive cooking discs? Recently my DVD Drive (LG 8120b) has really been heating discs up whilst reading them. This has got to the point that they can be uncomfortable to hold (or amusing if applied to someone else ) after a 45 minute divx movie. I'm assuming this is bad, but does anyone know what this is or why?

April 27th, 2003	Top \| #5
djwhite OSNN Senior Addict Joined: May 2002 Posts: 473 Reputation: 0 Power: 123	My DVD did that too (Pioneer DVD-114). One day I could smell that burnt electronics smell that everyone fears, so I replaced it with a LiteOn drive and had no problems since. The old one was a 2 years old I think, started making discs very hot after about 18 months. David White

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April 19th, 2003	Top \| #2
Iceman OSNN Veteran Addict Joined: May 2002 Posts: 2,695 Reputation: 30 Power: 145	I would check your internal temps, (case, cpu, hard drive, sounds like the system is running hot.) but I have heard of dvd/cd players doing that

April 25th, 2003	Top \| #3
box2k2 OSNN Addict Joined: July 2002 Posts: 62 Reputation: 0 Power: 117	nope. cd rw is fine, case temps are acceptable and the cpu is chillin' it's just that dvd drive

April 25th, 2003	Top \| #4
Taurus hardware monkey Joined: May 2002 Location: Sacramento, CA Posts: 3,206 Reputation: 90 Power: 151	you sure it's only been doing that recently? that would be odd if it didn't use to do that. if i'm ever going to access files off of a cd/dvd (music, movie, etc), i copy them to teh hd, first... so the optical drive isn't spinning the whole time. prevents wear and tear.