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    Updated Guide to Blu-ray drive upgrade for Gateway FX

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by Crazy Jay, Mar 31, 2009.

  1. Crazy Jay

    Crazy Jay Notebook Consultant

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    Great guide! Purchased mine from battery18. Smooth transaction. Thanks for the info.
     
    TeKn1qe, Mar 31, 2009
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    RangerXML Army of None [TRH]

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    Cool, used your guide as a reference when I changed out my drive on my 7811.
     
    RangerXML, Mar 31, 2009
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    shinji257 Notebook Deity

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    Are these drives capable of playing US Blu-Ray discs. I noticed the sellers are coming out of China and Korea.
     
    shinji257, Mar 31, 2009
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    Thanks Crazy Jay -

    I agree, the images of the PATA and SATA interface along with your wording should help avoid any confusion for folks using your guide.
     
    JohnWhoTwo, Mar 31, 2009
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    Nice Guide =) Plus rep
     
    strife1013, Mar 31, 2009
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    This is for shinji257

    All DVD and Blu-ray Drives are (User Region Set)

    What i mean by this is you get to Choose your region up to 5 times on your optical drive

    If you look Under your (Device manager) DVD/CD drives (Under regions Should tell you more about it
     
    Crazy Jay, Apr 1, 2009
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    computergeek92 Notebook Enthusiast

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    ok so i was wondering... if i upgrade my drive to blue ray...(i have the 7805) could i still play video games on it even if there all dvd's?
     
    computergeek92, Apr 1, 2009
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    Yes.

    The B-R drives for PCs are also capable of reading (and writing) to DVDs and CDs.

    The exact specs should be shown with the particular drive.
     
    JohnWhoTwo, Apr 1, 2009
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    Thanks. Just need to be sure.
     
    shinji257, Apr 2, 2009
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