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    My Zepto doesn't read DVDs :(

    Discussion in 'Other Manufacturers' started by NinaMaya, Jul 1, 2008.

  1. NinaMaya

    NinaMaya Notebook Guru

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    What am I doing wrong?

    I'm trying to read the contents of my Creative Suite DVD.
    Once it seemed to work, because somehow I managed to install CS3 onto this laptop.
    But now, when I put the DVD in the drive, it only detects an empty DVD.

    Is this a complete ****ty drive that is already broken after some months of use or is this some kind of BIOS failure?

    Did ANYONE also encounter this problem? Please help!

    I don't know what to do when I'm actually dependent on this drive, I.e. for original software installation and such.
     
    NinaMaya, Jul 1, 2008
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  2. NinaMaya

    NinaMaya Notebook Guru

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    Okay again a fast solution...

    In the BIOS there was "CD-ROM" selected as device.
    I selected "other ATAPI" device and now it works.

    But how did it get this way? Was it the latest BIOS-update or does Vista SP1 handle drive detection differently?

    I hope this will help someone else who encounters this problem.

    But I don't know if all those settings are okay like "FPIO3 UDMA 1" and whatnot.

    If someone has specs about that, that'll be nice ;)
     
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  3. John Ratsey

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    This problem has happened before, but not recently. Here is one thread and another. Your fix, by changing the BIOS setting is one of the methods to resolve this problem.

    Is your burner a Sony? I recall that Zepto dropped them because they often had this problem.

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Jul 2, 2008
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  4. evren

    evren Notebook Guru

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    Try booting your computer up with a boot CD first. It can be anything you have, Windows XP/Vista, any Linux distro or even better a Linux LiveCD (such as Knoppix). If your computer boots up, then nothing is wrong with your hardware. Try to see whether you can see your drive and contents of the CD when you boot it using the LiveCD. If you can, it might have something to do with your MBR and you might have to fix it.
     
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  5. NinaMaya

    NinaMaya Notebook Guru

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    Well I can see the drive and also browse it and copy data from DVDs.

    It is a TSST-Corp (Samsung) drive. Seems I have accidentally chosen the right values in the BIOS. Maybe even "better" values are possible, but I don't know.
    Well I would have been honestly surprised if a Samsung drive got broken so early, so good to know it's not the drive itself but just BIOS settings. The ever-so buggy BIOS that doesn't auto-detect the drive as what it really is.

    I'm just happy it works again.
     
    NinaMaya, Jul 2, 2008
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