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  • September 3, 2008 at 8:00 pm #18324
    TurksMeister
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    My Ma’s DVD writer has clapped out, so need a new one… For an old Pentium 4…

    If we cant get it to work, shes going to take my pc (and I get a new one :)), and wack the new burner in there (mine died years ago)… could there be a cross compatibility issue, or has burner tech remained the same over the last 10 years or so?

    Any good brands to go for?

    Cheers

    September 3, 2008 at 8:04 pm #69078
    TurksMeister
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    Hmmm its going to be the same old IDE and SATA shit isnt it… how gay

    Any way of finding out what type without opening the box?

    September 3, 2008 at 10:26 pm #69079
    XDC Dutchman
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    Opening up the box and looking at the cable is going to be the easy way.

    The long way, try something like this -> http://www.gtopala.com/siw-download.html
    Download, run it and go to storage devices and it’ll show all your devices and tell you whether they are SATA or otherwise

    September 4, 2008 at 9:33 am #69080
    TurksMeister
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    Ended up just pulling it out of the machine…and scanning it!

    Is this SATA or IDE?

    Cheers

    *edit* Not just being lazy – google isnt getting the results 🙂

    September 4, 2008 at 11:04 am #69081
    SilverSides
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    Thats IDE

    This is sata
    http://www.playtool.com/pages/psuconnectors/sata.jpg

    o/ i win
    Whats my prize?

    September 4, 2008 at 2:50 pm #69082
    TurksMeister
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    Can you really get a SATA DVD Writer? The guy in PC World looked at me as thought I was a moron! (He’s dead now – the mofo!)

    Managed to swap the drives fine… go me 🙂

    September 4, 2008 at 3:00 pm #69083
    SilverSides
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    http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-099-SA

    But then he works for PC World, what’d you expect. 🙂

    September 4, 2008 at 3:05 pm #69084
    TurksMeister
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    Yeh – I saw that Scan sell both types… what a dick head!

    Fortunately it works fine.

    September 15, 2008 at 8:28 pm #69085
    RecoilUK
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    @SilverSides wrote:

    http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-099-SA

    But then he works for PC World, what’d you expect. 🙂

    Funny and true, bunch of complete idiots.

    September 16, 2008 at 6:16 am #69086
    xdc magicker
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    lol

    typical of the wankers in the purple shirts

    September 16, 2008 at 6:54 am #69087
    XDCiNSANE
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    I have the Sammy SATA burner, it burns *cough* ISO’s *cough* more reliably and faster than my pio 119D (or whatever it is) very happy with it

    cant remember its exact model, possibly 113 summat, Pharty will know as it came with the PC I bought off him

    October 5, 2008 at 1:12 pm #69088
    xdc the doc
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    Possibly bit off topic – but i just bought one of these…

    http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-074-LG

    Amazing price for a dvd burner/player… that also happens to play all HD-DVD’s and blu-ray discs. I have been frothing over my ‘plkanet earth’ blu-ray boxed set over the past few weeks. HD heaven!

    Can pick up some cheap HD-DVD bargains just now as well.

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