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Summary: okay, but needs improvement
Review: I just bought the CD-ROM to minimize using my CD-RW drive for daily use, and installed on my DELL Dimension 4100 Pentium III 800MHZ. My first impression was that this thing was little bit noisy... Things looked just fine until I tried all different kinda of CDs in different format. The drive reads pretty much all the CDs such as regular audio CD, DirectCD(for CD-RW)... etc, but, does not read some of my kids games like Rugrats Activity game and CD-R format CD while my writiable CD drive(Sony CD-RW CRX140E)reads them just fine. First, I thought it might not have the right driver, so there I was searching and searching web site after another, but could not find the "right" driver since it does not exist. Digital Research themselves say there is no need for any driver unless you are using DOS or Windows3.1. And MS says it is compatible with my OS which is Windows Me. After a while, I found the little label on the box list of all the supported CD formats... And there it was. CD-R was not in the list. And I still don't know why my kids game can not be read from this thing. These are the format they claim it supports. CD-ROM XA, CD-DA, CD-I/MPEG, Photo-CD, Karaoke CD, CD-Movie, I-TRAX CD, CD-RW, and CD Plus.(This was shock to me first since I didn't know there are all these different formats available out there). Overall, I think the CD-ROM is pretty okay, but does not fit my need. I will have to decide which one to refund; the game or the CD-ROM, but my kid love the Rugrat game...
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Summary: it functions...
Review: I just installed it... - this drive IS very noisy. When watching instructional video, the drive was louder than my speakers. ... I am having trouble with the drive reading the discs. I double klick on the drive letter and it says it's not accessible when CD is in the drive! What I found was that I need to open it within first 10 seconds after putting CD in, otherwise it does not recognize it has something inside. ...
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