ok I have something that is Pissing me off ....
I have a fic 503+ with a amd k6-2-400

I have burned up about 3 cd-rom drives in this pc ... I mean dead, ka-put, not working .... I don';t have a clue as to what might be killing them ... they all have had the same symptom,

they work great for about 3 to 4 months ... then to warranty expires and then they die ...

I have a i8100 on the same ide line with no problems ... it is the master and my cd-roms were secondary .... and I have used different cd-rom drives thinking that it might be the brand as it was not compatible .... I have even lowered every thing to pio mode, so that it all talks the same

ok here is what goes on ...... the drive starts to have problems with some cd's then with a few more then it won't read at all .... no I have had 40x mitusmi and a 24x Toshiba, and some generic 32x that the local guy said to try .... and all three have die the same way ....

and anyone give a rhyme or reason as to why ... no one around here has ever seen this before and as far as me ... I am about to junk the whole works and start anew ....

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~Jon~
if you have to stop and wonder then you have already lost