Plextor PX-716A

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I bought this drive and it is not working. The led green light stays on all the time, it reads just fine but will not burn a DVD or just a regular CD. I have upgraded drivers and firmware from the plextor website and it still does not work. Any and all suggestions would be appreciated.
 
If you could give a little more information someone may be better able to try to assist you, such as:

*mobo you're using
*whether or not the drive is set to Master, Slave, or CS
*whether or not the drive is the sole device on the IDE chain or not
*troubleshooting you've tried
 
I had a regular IDE PX-716A die on me 1 year and 2.5 months after purchasing it and it exhibited this failure mode--insert disk, watch green LED come on and stay on. That was it. "Failure to initialize" was what Plextor support said. "We neither repair nor replace drives out of warranty" was what they also said, so I bought 3--three--new OEM LG GSA-H10N DVD-RAM drives for the same price I paid for my Plextor and haven't thought about Plextor until just now when I read your post. It ain't your father's Plextor anymore. Neither is Sony, for that matter. Or a host of other companies I could mention. Good luck.
 
Sorry here is what else I got and have done.

Plextor drive is set to master and a hitachi DVD drive is set to slave.
My motherboard is an ASUS A7V8X.
I have tried to make it a slave the the hitachi the master and same thing, and I have updated everything I could think of. Thats all I got, I am stuck.
 
So now I got it to recognize it and the green light is no longer on all the time. But now it tries to write a CD and it thinks for awhile and then it starts blinking a orangeish yellow colored light 2 times. What now?
 
Where can I get the gui driver updater? I do not find it on the link you provided. I am a little hesitant on doing the aflash updater because I do no twant to screw anything up! Is there a step by step tutorial for that?
 
I believe some instructions may be included with the Aflash, but basically you create a bootable floppy diskette with both aflash and the bios file on it. Then boot with the floppy and use the syntax "a:\aflash.exe xxx.bin" where xxx.bin is the precise name of the bios file. ....that may not be the exact syntax but it's in orbit.
 
I had a Plextor 760A drive quit recognising any type of disc put in it just after two months, Plextor tech support had me do a test on the drive by taking the drive out of my pc then put a jumper pin on both the master and slave position then put the drive back in my pc and only hook up the power cable then after powering up my pc put a blank disc in and if it spit the disc out after about 20 seconds or so then the drive was fine but if the disc if it didn eject the disc then it was defective. I dont know if this will work for the 716A but it might be something to try. By the way I probably will never buy another Plextor drive, sofar I am waiting for my third replacement 760A drive from Plextor USA as they have serious problems with DVDRW media, either not writing to a lightly scracthed DVDRW that 8 other dvd burners I have have no problem writing to it or simply making the DVDRW disc un-recognisable after writing to it making the DVDRW not re-usable.
 
I have the same drive and the green light is always on (when a disk is in)

But it works fine, rips fine, reads fine.


I am disappointed though that I get "Power calibration errors" on specific types of media where others do not.


As long as it rips at 17x +, I am keeping it.
 
Some drives the light will stay on when a disc is in it and the drive is either reading or burning to the disc. As for media not all drives like the same media, another thing that may help is check and make sure that you have the latest firmware update for your drive.
 
In my opinion without the PlexTools software Plextor drives would be just another $30.00 -$40.00 dvd burner. That and not all media is equal in quality, when using cheaper lower quality made media like Memorex, Imation, ProDisc, etc you can sooner or later expect burn problems, playback and or longevity problems, you get what you pay for, thats why I will only use Taiyo Yuden Premium line or Verbatim. Verbatim is the only media I will buy that is made in Taiwan. Also I will most likely NEVER buy another Plextor drive again because sofar I have been through three Plextor 760A drives, the first one worked fine for about two months then flat out quit recognising any kind of disc I put in it and then the two 760A replacement drives that I got from Plextor had DVRW media problems to where it would make the DVDRW disc unreadable and un-reusable or simply wouldnt write to it.
 
I dont bother with plex-tools very often.
And now-a-days, you may be right about the quality difference between optical drives these days. They are mature enough that most are equal.


Back in the day, Plextor was by far, the highest quality, most reliable drive available... now though, they all are.


The ripping speed is worth while though... so i am happy.
 
Was looking at your sig.
I bet you can play CNC Generals at full settings, but....
Have you maxed out your computer producing the Chinese red guard's ????

Looking forward to the continuation of the series.
 
haha I love it. Cant wait for the newest edition. Its looks so sweet.

I've only been able to play a few times on the machine in my sig. Its been really busy recently stress testing and hosting an application Ive just written. Ill get it back soon. Hopefully just in time for C&C3. Im stuck with a dual opteron 240 (130nm) until this project is finished.

I actually dont know if the new C&C will be threaded for multi-processors, do you?

I have maxed it out with the GLA mob before, but that was before I picked up the x1950 pros
 
Well, I finally flashed my bios and it still does not work. I had already updated my firmware, and the green light used to stay on weather there was a disc in or not. The green light now only is on if there is a disc in but it soon goes to a ogangeish color and blinks twice then keeps blinking.
 
I have a 716A sitting on my shelf, and I hate it. Worked for slightly more than a year, and then no matter what kinda media I put it, it would start jerking it and blinking the orange lights. Screw it I said, and bought a drive for 35 bucks. There's the glass lens for ya.
 
i too have a 716A, worst purchase ever. I am now happily enjoying my LG drive for 1/4 of the price i paid for the plextor. Honestly you could try updating the firmware/bios till the cows come home. But it sounds to me like there is an inherrent issue with this line of dvd burners. I would buy an lg for around 35-40 bucks and live a slightly less stressful life :)
 
for me the opposite was true. My plextor's dvd rip speed was limited to 2x while my lg flys along at around 5500-6000 KBPS. So i don't know. It was my first plextor drive and it didn't impress me much.
 
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