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    T420 hl-dt-st dvdram gt50n

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by oommggwwttff, Aug 27, 2012.

  1. oommggwwttff

    oommggwwttff Notebook Enthusiast

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    I see a little icon on the bottom right of my screen indicating that this device (hl-dt-st dvdram gt50n) is connected to my laptop. I'm guessing this is the CD drive because when I ejected it and opened My Computer, I see that the CD drive icon is not there anymore. I didn't have this problem before, the CD drive being "powered off," but now it's just gone. When I restart my laptop, I see the little icon on the bottom right again. Anyone know what's going on?
     
    oommggwwttff, Aug 27, 2012
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    In Power Manager, do you have enabled the settings for automatically powering off the ODD when not in use? If so, try disabling those settings.
     
    MidnightSun, Aug 27, 2012
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    I can't seem to find the setting for that.
     
    oommggwwttff, Aug 27, 2012
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  4. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    I would try the CD/DVD uppper/lower filters fix or manually deleting the keys yourself, but be for-warned modifying your registry can hose your OS, so always back it up.

    If you want to manually delete them, run regedit, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE then SYSTEM, then CurrentControlSet, Control, Class, then {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}, and delete the upper and lower filter registry values if they are there and reboot your machine.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Aug 28, 2012
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