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    My cd-rom drive act's wierd

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by Nickness, Mar 12, 2010.

  1. Nickness

    Nickness Notebook Enthusiast

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    My Cd-rom drive is acting a little bit wierd sometimes.

    It seams like it wont read all cd's right.

    The other day when i put a cd with alot of sound samples in it, it just kept ontrying to read it. But it would not, and in the end it oppened it like an emty cd-rom.

    Another time i had my alienware support cd-rom in"wich it reads just fine", and then i put a game cd-rom in, and NOW when i oppened the cd-rom drive it showed me the folder as if it was the alienware cd-rom? I had to take it in and out a couple of times before it worked?

    Anybody experinced the same?

    -Nickness
     
    Nickness, Mar 12, 2010
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  2. Nickness

    Nickness Notebook Enthusiast

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    Not anyone?
     
    Nickness, Mar 12, 2010
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  3. inap

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    i don't have an m17x but try reinstalling your cd-rom driver or uninstall it and let windows install a generic one. good luck.
     
    inap, Mar 12, 2010
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    DenverESullivan Notebook Consultant

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    Nickness,

    Boot off of the Resource DVD and run Alienware Diagnostics. My bets are that your optical drive is beginning to fail.
     
    DenverESullivan, Mar 12, 2010
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    I agree. When this happened to my e1705 the drive finally stopped working all together and I had to get a replacement drive. I ran the built in diagnostics on the computer and it wouldn't pass the cdrom drive..
     
    kilthro, Mar 12, 2010
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