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    Blu-Ray Drive Drivers?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by weinstein888, Dec 7, 2011.

  1. weinstein888

    weinstein888 Notebook Evangelist

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    Since I reinstalled Windows that is the one thing I have yet to install. Anyone have an idea of where I can find them? This would be for the drive that came with the R2 originally if you ordered it with a Blu-Ray player.

    bump because of weird freezing glitch when i try to eject disks.
     
    weinstein888, Dec 7, 2011
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  2. BatBoy

    BatBoy Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Weinstein,

    There is no Dell specific driver for your optical drive. All optical drives will use a Windows based device driver.

    If you are having issues with your drive and have recently been inside the system, check connections. If you haven't been in the system, check any third party apps you may have installed which may access the optical drive.

    Do you have a 'freezing glitch' when ejecting via right clicking on the optical drive and selecting eject from the context menu? If its simply with the touch panel eject button, try uninstalling OSD and then reinstalling OSD. While OSD should not be required to eject the drive, its worth a shot.

    If still having issues, contact Dell.
     
    BatBoy, Dec 8, 2011
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