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    VAIO FZ cd drive doesn't read

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by omidomid, Dec 11, 2007.

  1. omidomid

    omidomid Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello, I bought my VAIO FZ about 4 months ago (it's VGN-FZ190) and it has a cd/dvd/blue ray disc drive. Two days ago it stopped reading discs of any kind and vista doesn't recognize whatever I put in. I try to open it from my computer but it just ejects my tray and says to insert a disc. I've tried putting in Ratatouille (BR), Crash (DVD), and my old Grand Theft Auto game (CD) and none of them show up. The drive appears to be fine in device manager too. I've tried going to the BIOS menu and don't see any options to turn it on/off. It's set to #1 in the booting order too.

    Anyone know what's going on?? :confused:
     
    omidomid, Dec 11, 2007
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  2. coolguy

    coolguy Notebook Prophet

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    Go to device manager and right click the dvd drive > uninstall. Then restart your laptop. Windows will try to reload the driver for the DVD drive. See if it works after this.
     
    coolguy, Dec 12, 2007
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  3. omidomid

    omidomid Notebook Enthusiast

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    It tried to reinstall but then it says it failed. It appears in Device manager with the yellow "!" next to it now. :(
     
    omidomid, Dec 12, 2007
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    What does it say under the details? Go to windows update and check for updates and see if it pops up any driver update. I am not sure about the blue-ray drive. For my pioneer dvd drive the driver file is cdrom.sys
     
    coolguy, Dec 12, 2007
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    djsubtronic Notebook Evangelist

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    Does your optical drive appear in my computer? If not, try this:

    1. Go to start-> run and enter REGEDIT
    2. Expand to:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325 -11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
    3. In {4D36E965-E325 -11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} there should be two settings on the right, "Upperfilters" and "Lowerfilters".
    4. Delete both these entries and restart your computer.
     
    djsubtronic, Dec 12, 2007
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