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    Possible DVD drive malfunction?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by thermodynamic, Mar 7, 2009.

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    thermodynamic Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello. A little over 2 weeks ago I bought a G50VT-X1. Wonderful unit.

    On Friday I installed Ubuntu 8.10 (64-bit) on it. Then Virtualbox 2.14.

    Last night I started having problems with the DVD drive not reading install discs any longer; it would start to work but then act as if no drive was in the computer.

    This morning I found an external Toshiba DVD-ROM drive and it is working without a single hiccup.

    Where can I buy a replacement drive?

    Thanks!
     
    thermodynamic, Mar 7, 2009
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