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    DVD-RW not playing cd's

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by stingerxxx, Dec 19, 2008.

  1. stingerxxx

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    Hello, I have a alienware m9750 laptop. Til recently i was able to play cds in my dvd drive. The dvd's work fine in the drive. When i put a game cd in yellow light comes on the goes off, after looking in windows explorer at drive it would say " please insert disk" As i said it works with all my dvd games but not cd's. It just started recently. Also I have 2 other desktops that are doing the same thing. So i don't think it can be the drives going bad. If so then its a helluva coincidence for 3 drives to go bad at same time.
     
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  2. whizzo

    whizzo Notebook Prophet

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    the logical explanation is that your CDs are trashed.
     
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    they work in another computer fine
     
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    i thought your two other desktops didn't see the disk as well?
     
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    well, if it's reading DVDs and not CDs..then likely a media problem. Have you tried a blank CD to see if its recognized?
     
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  6. stingerxxx

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    I have five computers in house. 2 laptops, 3 desk tops. m9750 is the big one in the house though others are 3 are frankenmonsters and then last desktop is cyberpowerpc am2 system. in the Cyberpower pc machine all cds work fine
     
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    did you use exactly the same disks to test this, and did you try a variety of CDs in the computers that can't read them?
     
    whizzo, Dec 19, 2008
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    Maybe whizzo is right and bad discs. Its just funny they work in one of my others and in the m9750 it acts like there is no discs
     
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    maybe you should wipe off the CD.. could be covering a sector it needs to read to recognize the CD :p
     
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    good point. oh yeah, be sure to try a different brand of disk as well.

    @E-wrecked: congrats on your 2000th post.
     
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    Sorry to hear you are having trouble with your system, see if you are able to create a bootable disk and test it outside of windows. Let us know with the outcome.

    Thanx.
     
    Alienware-Armando, Dec 19, 2008
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    ohh..2k post. Sweet - Thanks whizzo :)
     
    E-wrecked, Dec 19, 2008
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