Dvd Burner

[mighty_falcon]

hello,,

thinking of adding an internal dvd burner to one of my computers. Its a dell one. It has not emtpy spots so i will be forced to remove the the cd rom drive and add the dvd-rw drive....

im just not sure if an LG 4081B 8X IDE DVD+ RW would work on a dell machine? since dell machines are known to only accept dell parts etc....

any of you guys know if a dell machine would support other parts manufactured other then dell?


tnx for all ur help
mighty :confused:

[james8547]

LG should work fine with Dell. I haven't tried this but I did replaced several Dell HDs with Maxtor, Seagate, & WD with no problems. So, yes, dell machs can support parts made by others.

[Hi Ho]

It's usually only the motherboards and power supplies that are proprietory in OEM machines like Dell, HP, Gateway, etc. Other things like hard drives and optical drives are always standard as far as I know.

[Iniamyen]

Yes, a motherboard/CPU/RAM combo is supposedly more reliable and less replaceable than therefore can be made proprietary. I have a Dell machine which is a couple of years old, and (at that point anyway) they still made all of the drives (hard, optical, floppy) standard. I would bet it will work fine.

[KoMoDo]

yes, and also, if u have any doubt, u can always email dell tech support, thats what i did for HP when i was unsure if i can throw away the psu and replace it with a regular ATX psu, including putting the uATX mobo into a regular mid-tower ATX case, they said i could, and so i did, works perfect :-P

KoMoDo