My girlfriend has an old PB laptop (Athlon XP Mobile 2200+ vintage) with a broken (physically snapped off!) CD ROM drive. Windows XP (original install, 4+ years old) finally gave up the ghost. in ...

Page 2: Kenwood's 72X True X CDROM Drive - Page 2 Once in a blue moon, we get a product in here at Hot Hardware that absolutely knocks our socks off. It doesn't happen very often and we test a lot of ...

READER GERRY CHING reports that upgrading to Windows Me, Windows 2000, and some other new products can cause some of your CD-ROM drive features not to work. So this week, we’ll show why this is and ...

Ok, for some reason after posting the OTHER topic of this name it was locked instantly... wtf? Oh well anyway here is what I posted:<BR><BR>Ok I searched and the results for issues where the BIOS ...

Being an early adopter is great if you enjoy showing off new gadgets to your friends. But any new technology also brings the risk of ending up at the wrong side of a format war: just ask anyone who ...

Conventional CD-ROM drives spin the CD faster to read the data more quickly. By using multiple lasers, Zen Research (zenresearch.com) approaches hard-drive speeds (as high as 52X). Only Compaq offers ...

A CD-ROM drive can be used as a stand-alone unit for playing digital audio CDs without interfacing with a computer. The stereo output of CD player available at the audio jack can be amplified using ...

introduced two 12X CD-ROM drives, the XM-5701B SCSI and the XM-5702B ATAPI. Both feature sustained data transfer rates of 1,800 kbps. Suggested list prices for the XM-5701B SCSI and the XM-5702B ATAPI ...

The dramatic announcement from Microsoft and Wang last year -- that anyone who purchased a copy of Windows 95 would receive a free image viewer -- led many to believe inexpensive imaging would soon be ...