Acer Travelmate 8210 Mutibay

I have purchased a used Acer TravelMate 8210 and am having problems with the Blu ray drive.

It can read and burn CDs (though slowly) and seems to play blu ray movies fine. However, it can't read or burn DVDs of any kind. Pressed DVD movies won't play, and I can't burn to +/-r disc. I've tried multiple brands.

If I can't get Acer to replace or fix the drive, could I just purchase a replacement DVD burner to put in it's place? Specs say it uses a multibay drive, but all the information I can find on this indicates it's something HP uses. Is it possible to just purchase a slim notebook dvd burner and plug it in?

Thanks

 

It stander slim cdrom it burn slow might be cause not runing in dma mode

go device manger and check

you might also want update bios on your laptop

 

Thanks for the suggestions.

I've removed and reinstalled the drivers for the drive and I think I've checked in the device manager and it was ultra dma 2, so that shouldn't be the problem.

I've tried to download the bios flasher for Vista from Acer's site, and whenever I use it, it gives me some error.

It's really good to know that it just uses a standard slim CD rom, in case everything else fails, I can just buy a notebook DVD burner.