I bought a new CD-ROM a few weeks ago, had been burning CDs fine for a couple of weeks, however the drawer then got jammed as I turned around too quick on my swivel chair and it was out.. oops.
No worries, opened it up carefully and took the drawer out and carefully replaced it.

Fine I thought. However, dunno if it's a coincidence, but since around that time I've had problems burning CDs. Audio CDs and Data CDs, basically it's the end of the discs that suffer, on audio CDs can be the last 10 mins usually, the disc will skip when being played, or I may put in a 6 min track and it will only have 2 mins of it burnt.

I use Nero (v5.5) and it reports a successful burn each time. Have been using a brand of CDs I have used for years without probs.

Ocassionally it will burn a disc no probs, but now 9 times out of 10 there's some errors on them.

I have disabled all other programmes and virus checkers etc.

Can't take drive back as opening it invalidated warranty... I'm thinking this is a hardware prob and my knock to it broke it somehow... but just to be sure, any one any the wiser or can think of any other thing that could be causing end of CDs to be corrupt?

The only advice I have been given from newsgroups and posting this on various other sites is "unplug all the cables and plug them back in", tried this and no difference.

Just burn another one and it didn't skip until the last track, however some of the audio as the CD progressed sounded distorted.

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It could be the media people sometimes have problem with cheap CD. But I would say that if you hit it with the tray open and after that it starts to mess up. I would say it a safe bet that it was damaged when you hit.

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What I would do, is in a very very clean room, open your computer, take out your cd rom drive, and carefully open it up. Look for anything that might pass as damaged. If you can take a picture of it and post it on here.

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