Burned correctly data CD is no longer recognized, R4000 laptop

It is a Presario R4000 with a DVD/CDRW drive (GCC-4243N), running XP Professional SP3.   I burned of data and live linux CD (all CD - R) with this machine and used about before without any problem.  I also use the same CD on several other Compaq computers without problem.   Now, this machine refuses to recognize any CD he previously engraved (CDFS file system) but it will recognize that all commercially burned CDFS CD including HP repair restore CD, disk driver D-link, the MS OS, Apple CD repair disks, etc.  It recognizes also any CD in UDF format.  I know that it is not directly related to XP because I can start some favors Linux from USB keys and they cannot recognize CDs engraved on this machine either and but can recognize the comercial CD also.  If I remove the hard drive and set the BIOS to boot from the optical drive, HP CD boot repair only, my live linux CD engraved on this machine (they do on other machines); rather, they go into an infinite loop that I can break with the pause button.   I have a boot drive ultimate for windows that uses a XP (Bart PE) preinstall the operating system, and oddly enough it makes also a loop but much more slowly so that I can select options in the start menu and run them from when the drive works perfectly (this is a CD - RW).

Has anyone seen this type of behavior?

How can I tell what BIOS of motherboard and drive firmware issue?

Is there available utilities to assess the integrity of the ROM in question?  I want to recover backups of them, calculate hashes and compare to HP, if I can get a clean copy.

It is a problem with the laser in the CD player. The fact that he made the same everywhere in the OS' you must mean it's material. You can probably find a DVD burner for this machine for eBay $25 and so forth.

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