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    Optical drive not working any solutions :(

    Discussion in 'Alienware M15x' started by akiratang, Aug 6, 2011.

  1. akiratang

    akiratang Notebook Guru

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    Ive had my alienware m15x laptop for about 10months now and for the first 6-8 months or so the dvd drive has been working flawlessy. However quite recently the dvd drive doesnt work anymore. :(

    I bought a new tablet for my laptop but i need to use the cd to install the drivers etc and that kinda sucks as my cd drive aint working.

    What happens is when i put in a CD the drive sounds like it wants to play the disc and does a few kinda like revving sounds and stops.

    my dvd drive is a optiarc dvd+rw ad-7640s and my bios is A08 if that helps
     
    akiratang, Aug 6, 2011
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    logan801 Notebook Consultant

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    What have you already tried? Different media? Update the driver? if all else fails there is a guy on eBay who sells DVD drives that are broken in lots of five. You could rebuild it.
     
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  3. akiratang

    akiratang Notebook Guru

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    Yes ive tried different discs and same results. I can eject discs fine and when i open up mycomputer and click on the dvd drive it just ejects. :S
     
    akiratang, Aug 6, 2011
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