M14X Problem... help here

Guys, im from Brazil and a friend of mine brought to me this laptop from USA. i dont have any warranty from Dell here in Brazil as they dont sell it here. I got it, then i replaced the HD to my momentus XT and updated to the last BIOS. eveything was fone till last night, the windows start to refuse to shut down, and now the laptop takes 3 minutes to pass tru the start alien logo and after that a underscore on the left top start to blinking and thats forever. last i tried to boot from usb UBUNTU and worked .... so any advice???

 

Sounds like the hard drive is definitely malfunctioning.

 

Gearsguy, thanx for your reply, actually i think i found the origin of the problem. Without the DVDRW plug in everything works fine. The cable of the DVDRW its ok b4 someone ask, i knew i have to unplug the white cover b4 loose it. the worse is that my windows 7 dvd its inside and thts not hole to press with a pin to take it out!!

 

yes is the DVDRW or maybe the flat cable though it looks intact. now the DVDRW dont even appears on BIOS.

i just call Dell USA and have been told that they can cancel the order and replaced the whole laptop... is kinda weird since i bought it from amazon... they should send me an email on monday.

beside that, DVD inst a big problem for as i dont often use it, im just afraid could be something related to the conection on the motherboard or the sata chip ... is the same chip of the HD? ... do you guys think worth buy an optical bay?


is there any way to test this optical driver outside from M14x?

 

Dont know the answer to your questions, but just thought Id drop in that I think you can get the warranty transferred as I think Dell warranties can be international.

 

Sounds like they are going to replace it, if so since your in Brazil I think I would keep it stock. Sounds like the ribbon from the DVD is messed up when you swapped the Hard drives. Best of luck.

 

do you think that could be the flat cable? it looks intact and i did raise up de white conector b4 take it out... is there any place i could by a new one?

 

Try resetting the cable, and check this tread if you haven't already. If the disk is not coming out may not have power to the player?

http://forum.notebookreview.com/ali...ll-secondary-hard-drive-your-m14x-w-pics.html

See if the player is listed in the device manager if not you have cable problem. If it is try reinstalling the driver for it.

 

actually right now the optical drive dont even appears on bios.

 

bro it's not the cables

see what your momentus XT firmware is at (SD2X)

i reccomend SD25. get them trough seagate's website

 

I got sd25 on my XT but the HD is working fine now .. the problem was the Optical Drive that was dying and lock up all! now the opctical drive dont even appears on bios and the m14x boots ok!

 

I got an idea to test if is a Drive problem, Flat cable or Port. Im not at home right now but i do think that the optical drive has the same conector from HDD Sata so i can plug in the SATA conector and see what happens.!

 

Let us know when the smoke clears..JK

 

the conectors are different !!!!

 

well i bought the optical adpter bay and tested with the 750gb that came with the m14x, not working ... the cable or the conection of the mobo ... and the worse im from Brazil Dell dont support this model here