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    HDDVD Drive x205-S9349

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by Renn2be, Dec 9, 2007.

  1. Renn2be

    Renn2be Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ok Heres the situation with my X205-S9349. I wanted to test out the HD capabilities so I bought Flags of our Fathers in HD and the laptop was not letting it play so I downloaded the new firmware from the HD site and installed it. Now the laptop is acting like there isnt any HDDVD drive at all. I tried to rollback and there was no option 4 it and I also tried windows restore and it didnt work either. I even tried downloading the firmware again and installing it again and that didnt solve the problem. Ive been searching 4 an answer 4 this problem 4 a while now. What should I do?
     
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    nobody got any ideas?
     
    Renn2be, Dec 10, 2007
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    I haven't had that problem, so i haven't had to fix it, but is the drive simply not showing up at all, or is just working as a regular DVD drive? I have actually read a couple posts where some have changed something in the registry, and it fixed something similar to this about the drive not showing up.... hopefully one of them will see it. The post I remember was mentioned by OV10stang, so either message him or maybe he'll see this.... good luck, sorry I can't help further
     
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    yeah the drive is not showing up at all
     
    Renn2be, Dec 10, 2007
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    Mine used to do the same thing, but once every 15 starts, it wouldn't show up anywhere, I found if I rebooted it would reappear. I did the registry tweak and haven't had a problem.
     
    Snowsurfer, Dec 11, 2007
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    Snowsurfer, Dec 11, 2007
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    when I type in regedit in the search box .. it says there are no matches found.. thats wierd

    Now I try to install the firmware again and it tells me optical device not found this is crazy.. Ive never had a drive just dissapear.
     
    Renn2be, Dec 11, 2007
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    I got it back by using registry mechanic but it still wont play hddvd it gave me the pcvideo must be running error so I used the toshiba website to find out and it wanted windows to choose the bbest performance and then restart but all that didnt work.
     
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    so you've got the drive listed and shows up fine, but when you start the player software it gives you the video error? If so, that's a driver problem... what drivers you using? Newer than the Toshiba drivers, you have to modify the inf files.... lemme know what exactly it's doing
     
    be77solo, Dec 12, 2007
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    On my machine, if you uninstall Picassa, it breaks the DVD driver
     
    y2khardtop, Dec 13, 2007
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    I don't even know what Picassa is? I've got a clean install, and they play beautifully....
     
    be77solo, Dec 13, 2007
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    I guess it dont really matter since blu-ray won. Yet every time I insert a dvd it opens up hdvd player and gives that fn+f5 error. Then I just close it and open up hddvd launcher so I can just play a regular dvd. I like that launcher program its pretty sweet.
     
    Renn2be, Mar 3, 2008
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    Picassa is a photo viewing program.... I was remembing that i had recently unistalled it as i was trying to get rid of bloatware and i had the same problem with my HDDVD drive disappearing. i used system restore and it worked again, but i think picassa might have been the problem... as for the HDDVD's i have been using PowerDVD (thanks for the suggestion be77solo) and it works fine with all of the video drivers i have had so far...
     
    abehanna, Mar 3, 2008
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