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CD only reading silver not green cd's?

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by robert.walsh

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My 1997 Goldstar 8240B CD reader, can only Read CD's with silver bottoms. Ones like SONY with Green bottoms will not be recognized, whether they are CD-R or CD-RW.
I know the latest driver is installed and the cd reader is not too old, but it confuses me why this 24x speed CD reader is having a problem? Ideas? Solutions? The green CD's are working on other pc's with the same Windows 95B OS. Is there a fix rather than replacing the CD drive itself. My iomegazip CD- burner on the same PC can read the green bottom cd's. Help Please?

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by stillatit

It may be a laser color issue. Have you tried querying Goldstar? It is a known problem that some recorders do not work with some brands of CD/CRD disks.

What quality are your CD's? I have seen cheap CD's which you can almost see through if you hold them up to a strong light. These did not work on my machine.

Try slapping a blank CD label on one of the green ones and see if that improves things.

I would also try cleaning the lens, just for luck. Cleaning kits are cheap.

Good luck.

by robert.walsh

I tried all you suggested, with exception of not able to find a Goldstar technical person/answer. I wish there was more facts on file for searching on something like this. No answer yet so far.

by robert.walsh

Point value changed by question poster to 250. Since this has not had a valid solution or probable cause I can verify, I wish to increase the points this week.

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