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- Problem w/ Missing Optical Drive- Did regedit tweak, might've screwed it up
- I'm running XP Pro and all of a sudden my optical drive isn't showing up. Someone told me to clear the values for the Upper and Lower filters, then reboot. Well, I did just that and there has been no change, other than in the registry, which worries me that...
- Tags: jeremyldavis79@..., optical drive
- Discussion threads 2007-11-19
- DVD Drive not reading disc.
- I recently bought Morrowind and it says its a DVD-ROM compatable only.My hard drive says it is compatable with DVD-ROMS. And despite it being a dual drive thing, there is a seperate I: Drive in My Computer, which is alledgedly my DVD Driver.However, when I put the disc in nothing...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, Lukehill420@..., DVD, disc, DVD-drive, hard drive, optical drive
- Discussion threads 2007-11-16
- 10 things to look for in a laptop
- No 11 to look for in a laptop: bays.I am glad I didn't see "optical drive". The last thing I need to lug around is a built-in optical drive. What is nice is a bay that can take either an optical drive or a 2nd battery. An...
- Tags: Notebooks, baldwinl@..., laptop computer, optical drive, cigarette, battery, notebook
- Discussion threads 2007-10-16
- hard drive and optical drive not found on boot up
- how do i fix that problem i have done f2 and no bio screen and if there is it will not let me change it i had to where you could ctrl,alt,delete but that soon went too...help
- Tags: teepepin@..., optical drive, hard drive
- Discussion threads 2007-09-18
- Audio connection for Lite-on DVDRW SATA drive LH20A1L
- I am putting together a new PC system for myself and I bought this DVDRW OEM on eBay. I have built several PC's in the past, but this is my first with SATA HDD and Optical Drives. Everything is going well, except that there doesn't seem to be...
- Tags: Serial ATA, sarisack@..., Lite-On, pin, optical drive, digital audio
- Discussion threads 2007-08-12
- Process Eng
- I have a pair of old laptops I'm reviving - Compaq Armada SB 5233DMT with Windows 98SE. One is working fine and the other does not see the CD-ROM drive. Compaq's BIOS on the hard drive is a peculiar design which I thought was part of the problem...
- Tags: Notebooks, rpalhof@..., motherboard, CD-ROM, optical drive, CD, CD-ROM drive
- Discussion threads 2007-07-18
- Hard Drive & optical drives SATA vrs IDE
- Hard Drive & optical drives- I have IDE HD 20GB, 15GB, 1GB, can they connect to SATA in new machine? As extra HD’s and to transfer data across easily? (HARD DRIVE in question - 160GB 7200rpm SATA, Optical drive in question-SuperMulti SATA Drive with Lightscribe Technology, Double Layer)Multiple Ways to...
- Tags: raticus, Serial ATA, optical drive, hard drive, IDE
- Discussion threads 2007-06-27
- NEED HELP WITH DVD DRIVE (D:)
- i have had my computer windows XP for nearly three years now and most of that time i have not been able to play cd's or dvd's in DVD DRIVE (D:). when i put the disc in it just makes a loading noise but nothing comes up. when i try...
- Tags: sallie_999@..., DVD-drive, optical drive, disc
- Discussion threads 2007-06-06
- cd rom read error
- DVD-rom works just fine in Linux but won't work in Windows XP any ideas of how i may fix this. any thoughts on the subject would be appreciated.Is this a question of...Hardware or Media?DriversYou most likely need to update the Windows drivers for the chip-set on the motherboard.Download the correct...
- Tags: Operating systems, CD-ROM, gilly2006@..., chip-set driver, Microsoft Windows, optical drive
- Discussion threads 2007-05-24
- Optical drives disappeared from BIOS and Windows
- Hi, I have a really weird problem and don't know how to solve it, so I hope you can help me. I have two optical drives in my computer, a DVD-Drive and a DVD-Burner. Both were jumpered as master for a while, but only one was connected to the mainboard,...
- Tags: Development tools, mc-slobo@..., IDE, DVD-drive, BIOS, cable, Microsoft Windows, optical drive
- Discussion threads 2007-05-08
- Boot from disk on a Viao vgn 150
- Sony starts its own "recovery" tool when detecting a HDD failure probability. Trying to boot from disk w/ a Bart PE disk or the windows OEM XP disk doesnt work. Optical drive is working, but Sony insists on trying to start its "recovery "tool. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
- Tags: jeff1126r@..., disk, Sony Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-26
- DVD drives not showing up in CMOS
- On a recent PC build I have installed a single SATA HD and two DVD optical drives. Unfotunately, regardless of proper hardware configuration, I can't see to get the optical drives to be recognized by the CMOS. The two DVD drives are recognized upon boot up (by both...
- Tags: BIOS, Memory, DVD, jameson131@..., optical drive, CMOS, Physical Size, two-DVD
- Discussion threads 2007-03-30
- New Build: setting up SATA drive and optical drives
- I just got a new ASUS motherboard and am building a new system. I have only 1 SATA WD hard drive, no IDE hard drives, and two optical drives. My question is :Do I set up the optical drives on the primary or secondary IDE connector on the motherboard. My...
- Tags: hardware, IDE, markeyp@..., optical drive, RAID, raid configuration, sata, SATA Drivers, Serial ATA
- Discussion threads 2007-01-27
- HDD and optical drive not found at boot
- I'm working on a Gateway Solo 1200 laptop, with an Intel Celeron (800 MHz), Win XP Pro, 128MB RAM, and a 20GB Toshiba HDD, and the factory original CD-ROM drive. Intermittently, the PC will boot and will not find the HDD nor the CD-ROM drive. Sometim
- Tags: boot error, CD-ROM, hard drive, hardware, optical drive, rebalumni@...
- Discussion threads 2007-01-01
- Optical Drive will not Eject
- XP has a problem with the optical drive not ejecting in a networking situation . This seems to be a problem that's been going on for sometime.If there is a restart of the computer, the optical drive will eject and then will not eject, again! It can't
- Tags: networking, hardware, software, windows, steve7474, optical drive, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2006-12-15
- Optical Drive will not Eject
- XP has a problem with the optical drive not ejecting in a networking situation . This seems to be a problem that's been going on for sometime.If there is a restart of the computer, the optical drive will eject and then will not eject, again! It can't
- Tags: networking, hardware, software, windows, steve7474, optical drive, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2006-12-15
- How to upgrade hard disk and optical drive in Vaio NV170
- Hi, I got a vaio NV170 and it works ok but all of the sudden the Optical drive is not working. The sonny ppl would charge me a proce of almost a new Toshiba or dell with a good spec. is there any body have the information on how could...
- Tags: hardware, elabndrawy@..., optical drive, hard drive, Sony Vaio
- Discussion threads 2006-11-23
- WinXP Home - Need Help with User Accnts
- This may be an easy question for most of you. I have a Dell 2350, XP-Home, and allowed Windows to automatically download and update SP2 on it. Well, all my system would do is reboot, reboot, reboot, until I finally reinstalled XP-Home on top of the prior version (reinstalled it...
- Tags: reBOOT, optical drive, tslatts01@..., windows, Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows XP, XP-Home
- Q&A 2006-06-07
- Pc will not cold start
- Bought a new Hp media center pc M7299a. After adding another optical drive the pc will not cold boot. You can do a forced shut down then fire up the computer and it runs fine. But when you go to do another cold boot it fails before you get...
- Tags: optical drive, power supply, Hewlett-Packard Co., brian.mcdonnell@..., PC, cold calling
- Q&A 2006-05-21
- Photo: Toshiba notebook goes HD DVD
- Qosmio G35-AV650 combines several heavy-hitting performance components with a high-definition optical drive.
- Tags: HD-DVD, notebook, optical drive, performance, photograph, Qosmio G35-AV650, Toshiba Corp., Toshiba Qosmio
- Image galleries 2006-05-09
