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    Acer 5920G DVD Drive

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by dannywanny, Feb 5, 2008.

  1. dannywanny

    dannywanny Notebook Consultant

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    The DVD drive on my 4 month old 5920G is starting to worry me! It feels really weak like it could break everytime I open / close it! It certainly seems to be getting looser and looser...

    I guess this is just because the quality of the drive is very poor? Has anybody actually had any problems with it - has it broken? Or does anybody else have a wobbly drive like me!?
     
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  2. borland

    borland Notebook Geek

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    the drive is Toshiba and the quality is very high
     
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    dannywanny Notebook Consultant

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    Well the 'quality' of the drive's performance is fine - but I mean it doesn't feel very stable. Is this common with other laptops? I worry that it will break!
     
    dannywanny, Feb 6, 2008
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    borland Notebook Geek

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    I've replaced original multi drive with HDDVD drive from Toshiba only because I wanted to watch HDDVD over Acer's HDMI port. Both drives work fine but feel a little bit "wobbly" when open but it's OK as this is a price for portability and all laptop's drives feel the same but work fine if you don't abuse them. Just be more gentle with them compare to the desktop drives.
     
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    warrick88 Notebook Guru

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    There are different types of dvd drives in certain 5920's. For example i have a slimtype, but there are others with lite-on, etc..so these models can be different in quality.
     
    warrick88, Feb 6, 2008
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    borland Notebook Geek

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    I did not know about that as I tought that 5920G was being sold only with the Toshiba drives.
     
    borland, Feb 6, 2008
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