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    m1530 wont recognize blu-ray discs (in My Computer)

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by kuram, Sep 7, 2008.

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    So i bought 2 blu-ray movies today in hopes of being able to play them on my new m1530 with the blu-ray drive, however when i pop it in i hear the drive attempt to read the disk, but after awhile it gives up and when i check in My Computer, the drive label's itself as empty.

    Incase it matters, i reformated to xp 32bit, and my graphics card is the 8600M GT and the driver is the forceware 165.01. Im not sure, but i believe that is an older version, but im not entirely sure it would restrict the laptop from recognizing the disc.
     
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    Is the driver you are having WHQL ??? I guess u need a WHQL driver for bluray playback... you could probably try one of the newer ones from Dell.. either the 175.97 or the one before that 174.31...

    Btw, are other CD/DVD working fine??? if not, it might be the drive itself having some issues...
     
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    other CD's are fine, but what is this WHQL?
     
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    k so where would i dl these drivers i cant find them on the dell website anywhere.
     
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    ah thank you i was looking under optical drives lol foolish me!
     
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    those drivers are vista 32 bit, not XP. thanks anyways
     
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    Ah there... I missed that part in your OP.... wonder how I missed it.. but U cna find the XP drivers too here in NBR.. there was a thread with all XP drivers...
     
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    im going with 175.63 off of laptopvideo2go because it had the highest benchmarks for xp32 :) thanks for your help though
     
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    Good luck :) and check there for more drivers.. :) there are lots of them there... :) Cheers.
     
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    it says i lose the WHQL certificate because of the modified inf file... ohh i hope it works anyways lol
     
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    when u download drivers from laptopvideo2go, check if they are whql signed... its there at the top of the first post... and if it doesnt work, try without the modded inf... u need whql signing for bluray playback

    AFAIK, modded inf's invalidate the WHQL signing!!
     
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    ya they do, and it doesnt recognize the disc.... but even my stock drivers didnt recognize the disc in the drive, and they came straight from dell, as far as i know (it was from the how to install XP on m1530 post). I updated mediadirect, and it still wont recognize

    none of the drivers that are there are compatible with my gfx card unless its a modded inf.

    big edit: wow..... like 2o minutes after i updated media direct, it recognizes one of my blu-ray discs, (transporter) but not the other (xXx) so meh, maybe i gotta reboot lol
     
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