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    My DVD burner make a Toshiba laptop freeze

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by naton, Nov 8, 2008.

  1. naton

    naton Notebook Virtuoso

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    Hi

    I'm helping my cousin to fix her Toshiba s1800-911 laptop. She had a nasty virus, and basicaly I'm trying to format her harddrive and install a fresh copy of WinXP.

    I tried about 6 different CDs (Win98, Win2000, and WinXP) and her DVD drive refuses to start from any of them. The Bios is set to start from the DVD drive though.

    So thinking of an incompatibility problem I installed my DVD burner in her laptop. My burner work fine in two different laptops but not in hers. With my DVD burner, her laptop starts, a message saying something like "Press F12 to select the boot drive", but nothing else happen. The doesn't freeze completely though because I can switch the CapLock LED by hitting the CapLock key.

    Any idea on how to my my DVD burner work in her laptop?
     
    naton, Nov 8, 2008
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    ahl395 Ahlball

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    It could be possible that the Optical Drive port could be damaged...
     
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    naton Notebook Virtuoso

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    Nop :) , the optical drive works just fine in my laptop but not in my cousin's.

    Any other thoughts?
     
    naton, Nov 9, 2008
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    What i mean, is the port for the optical drive in the laptop could be damaged. Because you tried 2 different ones in that laptop and it didnt work, but they did in others. That would lead me to think the port in the notebook is damaged. ;)
     
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    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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    See this other thread. Although the OP has not stated it explicitly, I deduce that both the HDD and ODD are both set to master but are sharing one IDE channel.

    John
     
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    naton Notebook Virtuoso

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    Yes John I think that both the HDD and the Optical drive are set to Master.

    ahl395 I think I may haven't explain my problem clearly. The original DVD-drive works but has some compatability issues. It read some DVDs and CDs but not all of them.

    Anyways, I took the HDD out and place it in a USB enclosure so I could back up my cousin's document, photos.... Then, I've spent most of the afternoon trying to find a way to install Windows directly from her Harddrive. I didn't succeed; all the methods I found require a floppy drive or a working CD-drive.

    I formated her HDD and replace it back in the Toshiba, and then surprise :) I was able to re-install Windows from one of the CD I tried the day before.

    Guys I have problems with the drivers now :( The GPU one that I have downloaded from Toshiba's website doesn't work. Any good place where I can download a driver for the Trident Cyberlade XP-Ai1 Video Adapter?
     
    naton, Nov 9, 2008
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