Does GPU drive dvd writer?

I recently baked my motherboard in order to revive my dv9810. The process worked.

My first sign of any trouble was that my dvd writer disappeared from device manager. I tried all the tricks (delete upper/lower filters, factory retore, etc...)to bring it back, but nothing worked. One month later, the notebook would not boot, so I baked the mobo.

My question is, if I only used a heat gun on the gpu, instead of baking the whole board, would that have brought the dvd writer back into use?

Thanks

 

Firmware update for the drive in question? Does the BIOS detect it? Can you boot media from it?

 

The GPU is completely independent of the GPU. Baking is not a guaranteed thing, and more likely than not you damaged something else while trying to fix the GPU.

 

Replace the DVD-RW

 

these are typical signs of failing NVDIA GPU's... just bake the motherboard... or use a heat gun after getting rid off all the attached stuff.. ur dvd drive shoud work afte that..

 

Thanks for the replies to my poorly worded post.

Actually my notebook runs better now than ever, and the dvd works also. What I was curious about was whether or not the dvd would have worked if I had used a heat gun on the gpu vrs baking the whole motherboard in the oven.

I think sean473 answered that question.

Thanks again

 

The heat gun is more dangerous though. Much safer to bake the entire thing evenly. Otherwise you could introduce stress fractures into the PCB, burn it (more), etc, etc.