Rom Drive
2009
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 Panasonic toughbook cd rom drive $20.00 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 1d 17h 4m |
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 Original Dell Latitude D620 D630 D610 D600 D800 CD RW DVD ROM DRIVE 500GB HDD $49.99 Time Remaining: 19h 48m |
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Rom Drive
Modify Your Cd-Rom To Watch Dvd Movies
The track pitch of CDs is 1.6 microns, and the track pitch of DVDs is only 0.8 microns. The minimum length of track pits of CDs is 0.843mm, and the minimum length of track pits of DVDs is 0.293mm. That's why DVD discs can store much more data in the size of a CD.
Pinpointing this situation, we need to adjust the laser head so it can read discs with smaller track pitchs and shorter track pits. Open up the CD-ROM drive, do you see a lens on the rail? That's the laser head. On the side of the laser head, there's a screw you can adjust.
This is the key of this mod.
Modify Your CD-ROM to Watch DVD Movies
This screw can adjust the size of the laser beam that lands on the disc. Referring to the above, after adjusting, the laser beam should be less than 0.293mm, to suit the needs of DVD discs. So turn that screw 2-3 times. I got this number through trial and error. Mark with a pencil, in case you forget how many times you turned that screw.
Speed adjustments:
DVD-ROM drives can play DVD movies smoothly at 4x speed. If we're modding a 32x CD-ROM drive, the rotation speed is obviously too high, increasing heat, and shortening the life of the drive.
So we need to decrease the speed of it.
Modify Your CD-ROM to Watch DVD Movies
Most people know that power supplies can provide 5V (red wire) and 12V (yellow wire) electricity output for Molex connectors. Find the Molex connector you'll plug into the modded CD-ROM drive, cut the yellow wire or insulate it with tape, so only 5V of electricity is transferred to the CD-ROM drive. The speed of the drive is now 32 * 5/17 = 9.41x and can now fulfill our requirements.
Modify Your CD-ROM to Watch DVD Movies
40x or higher CD ROMs
When 40x CD-ROM drives are released, most manufacturers are already producing DVD-ROM drives. To lower cost, they use the same core as DVD-ROM drives with DVD functions disabled. What we need to do here is to re-enable the DVD function.
Open up the CD-ROM, behind the circuit board, look for a jumper that says DVD JUMP. Find a jumper to connect this jumper. Thin metal wire also works fine.
OK, so the DVD function is unlocked, but we still need to decrease the speed. Use the instructions above on how to decrase the speed of the drive.
Notes:
Modded drives cannot be detected in POST, that means you cannot use it in DOS. But once you get into Windows, the drive works fine.
Modded drives have no region code problems.
Modded drives MIGHT NOT read DVD9 discs, that's why I said you can watch most retail DVDs in the beginning
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Modify Your CD-ROM to Watch DVD Movies
if a pc is shutdown will the cd rom drive close automatically if its left opened?
Sample when the process of burning a CD is done it usually opens the cd rom drive. If after the process i shutdown the pc will it close the CD rom drive?
No, in most cases the CD-ROM will close when it receives a reset signal from the PC, this happens when you turn the computer ON so will close when you turn it on but not off.
It is possible to MAKE it close when you shut down using a script.
The First Computer CD-ROM Drive - Philips CM100 from 1985
