DVD burners thats Compatible with Acer Desktop

[hamiltonam]

I have a Acer Aspire x1700 thats running windows 7 home prem and the DVD burner on it went bad. I have tried reinstalling the drivers and nothing but it just keeps making a gringing noise and wont open. computer doesn't recognize it as being available. So I was going to replace it with a Lite On 24x DVD / Cd burner and wanted to know if that would be compatible with my desktop or should I use something else? Thank you.

[giardmi09]

Hello Hamiltonam,

Your computer has SATA connections for Hard Drives and Optical Drives. As long as that Lite On 24x DVD/CD burner uses SATA to connect, it will work. Here is one great deal on newegg for an optical drive, I own one of these and it works just great. It's cheap and it also has almost 3,000 ratings with an average of 5/5. Check it out here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827135204