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    DVD not recognized in BIOS - Travelmate 4670

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by paulrau, Jun 7, 2008.

  1. paulrau

    paulrau Newbie

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    I have a Travelmate 4672LNi (4670) that had a second battery installed in the DVD bay from new. It has never had a DVD/CD drive. I have removed the battery and have tried installing a GCC-4244N drive that was removed from an Acer Aspire 3620. The drive is not recognized in BIOS (the ATAPI model name is blank). It is obviously not recognized by Windows XP either. I have tried this drive in a HP laptop and it works fine, so the problem does not seem to be the drive. The BIOS in the Travelmate does not give me any options to manually configure the DVD drive.

    Any suggestions??
     
    paulrau, Jun 7, 2008
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  2. andyasselin

    andyasselin Notebook Deity

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    does the drive have adapter on it ?

    that work with that model


    are you try use bare slim drive or the slim drive with adapter from acer on it ?
     
    andyasselin, Jun 7, 2008
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  3. paulrau

    paulrau Newbie

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    Yes the drive has an adapter on the back that "shifts" the connector from the side of the drive to the center. This was fitted on the drive when pulled from the Aspire laptop
     
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  4. bigozone

    bigozone JellyRoll touring now

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    since you have tested the drive,, and you have the proper connector on the back of the drive...

    the only thing i can think of is the possibility that the drive may need it's firmware flashed to change it from master to slave or vice versa...

    that's all i can think of...
    you might find some info here...
    http://www.cdfreaks.com/devices/
     
    bigozone, Jun 7, 2008
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