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4. Maintaining Your PlexCombo
This chapter explains maintenance for your PlexCombo drive.
With proper maintenance, you can prevent problems. If problems arise, you can
often solve many simple problems on your own, rather than wait for assistance from
a Plextor representative.
Upgrading Firmware
Plextor creates firmware revisions to meet the particular needs of large computer
manufacturers, and to include the latest parameters for Plextor-tested media. It is rare
that these changes will substantially affect the performance or operation of your
PlexCombo drive. However, we advise that our customers always update drives with
the latest available firmware. Before troubleshooting a possible problem with your
drive, please make sure to visit our web site at www.plextor.com to check if you
have the latest firmware.
To obtain new firmware for your PlexCombo drive:
1. Go to the Plextor web site at www.plextor.com.
2. Look for firmware upgrades in the Support area, on the Downloads page. There
is a description of the latest firmware revision and its intended use.
3. Download the firmware to your computer.
To upgrade firmware:
1. Terminate any other applications before upgrading firmware.
2. Run the executable file that you downloaded from Plextor's web site.
3. Accept all defaults by continuing to click on the "Next" button. While the new
firmware is being loaded to the PlexCombo 8/8/24-8U drive, you can see the
front-panel LED indicator blinking. When firmware has been updated, you see
the message:
Firmware update has completed.
4. Reboot your computer to complete the firmware upgrade.
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