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    Acer Aspire Timeline and Optical Drive Power Management Problem

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Jerethi, Nov 9, 2009.

  1. Jerethi

    Jerethi Notebook Enthusiast

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    Has anyone noticed that Optical Drive Power Management occassionally stop working, i.e., pressing the eject button on your laptop, Windows does not detect your optical drive? Does anyone know how to get Windows to detect the drive, short of restarting?

    Any help is much appreciated!

    (BTW, my OS is Windows 7 Home Premium 64. I am using Optical Drive Power Management for Windows Vista Home Premium 64 - I just installed the program in compatibility mode. Before anyone suggests this is the cause of the problem, I was experiencing this same problem in Vista Home Premium 64 and was hopeful that Windows 7 would fix it. Alas...)
     
    Jerethi, Nov 9, 2009
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  2. rogerace

    rogerace Newbie

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    I have a similar issue, but my dvd drive would disappear from Explorer and Device Manager. The dvd is there after starting up, but as long as i put in a cd/dvd, it spins for a while and then the dvd drive disappears.

    It was working properly for me in Vista though. The problem started after upgrading to 7 (clean install though). I did not install the optical power management software.

    Timeline 4810T, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.

    RogerAce
     
    rogerace, Nov 9, 2009
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  3. Runscout

    Runscout Newbie

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    I was having the same problem too but only once I installed Windows 7 64 bit home premium from the free upgrade kit (I did a clean install). What I realized was that after I ejected a disc from the cdrom it would disappear almost instantly from windows explorer. I believe it has something to do with power management. The Optical Drive application for Vista didn't work for me either. I Instead installed Optical Drive Power Management which was located under applications in the upgrade DVD which accompanies the Windows 7 installation disc and problem solved. Acers website oddly doesn't have the application under my version of Win 7.
     
    Runscout, Nov 10, 2009
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  4. waterwingz

    waterwingz Newbie

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    Seems to be lots of issue with Windows 7 and the Acer Timeline 4810. The dissappearing DVD drive makes doing a Win7 upgrade ìnteresting when it prevents you from completing the upgrade. This might to be a power management issue and a driver upgrade is available in the Acer web site - although they seem to be pretending there is no problem despite many desperate posts on many internet help sites. :mad:
     
    waterwingz, Dec 29, 2009
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  5. shuhailnp

    shuhailnp Notebook Consultant

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    yes even i had that issue in win 7 ultimate 64 ...
    but now its ok....
    the problem occured when i installed intel matrix storage software...
    you hve to press eject button twice to activate dvd drive...
     
    shuhailnp, Dec 30, 2009
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    waterwingz Newbie

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    waterwingz, Dec 30, 2009
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