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CD/DVD drive not detected.
Posted 03 January 2012 - 06:25 AM
My cd/DVD drive is not detected during the boot up and its not visible in the My Computer not even in the device manager. Cant find the error why its happening. It has power but really not detecting it.
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Re: CD/DVD drive not detected.
Posted 03 January 2012 - 06:38 AM
If the cables are correctly inserted and fully seated in their proper connectors, and the computer doesn't see it in the BIOS, then it is most likely a dead drive.
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Re: CD/DVD drive not detected.
Posted 03 January 2012 - 06:43 AM
Kilorn, on 03 January 2012 - 06:38 AM, said:
If the cables are correctly inserted and fully seated in their proper connectors, and the computer doesn't see it in the BIOS, then it is most likely a dead drive.
It has power in it but unfortunately the open/eject button does not work as it has to. Is there any chance that a virus can do such thing?
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Re: CD/DVD drive not detected.
Posted 03 January 2012 - 07:47 AM
It is the physical device problem. Not a software problem.
So if your drive is still in warranty period, send it to RMA.
It is hard to find the fault in cable connections while dealing with laptops.
Did it show your drive in the BIOS?
So if your drive is still in warranty period, send it to RMA.
It is hard to find the fault in cable connections while dealing with laptops.
Did it show your drive in the BIOS?
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Re: CD/DVD drive not detected.
Posted 03 January 2012 - 06:10 PM
jSteeL, on 03 January 2012 - 08:43 AM, said:
It has power in it but unfortunately the open/eject button does not work as it has to. Is there any chance that a virus can do such thing?
A virus can not attack or damage hardware.
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Re: CD/DVD drive not detected.
Posted 04 January 2012 - 11:19 PM
Prime_Coder, on 03 January 2012 - 07:47 AM, said:
It is the physical device problem. Not a software problem.
So if your drive is still in warranty period, send it to RMA.
It is hard to find the fault in cable connections while dealing with laptops.
Did it show your drive in the BIOS?
So if your drive is still in warranty period, send it to RMA.
It is hard to find the fault in cable connections while dealing with laptops.
Did it show your drive in the BIOS?
unfortunately its no longer in the warranty period. I guess I'll have to buy myself a new one.
I sucks! I cant burn my projects to cd's.
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Re: CD/DVD drive not detected.
Posted 05 January 2012 - 02:04 PM
no2pencil, on 03 January 2012 - 08:10 PM, said:
A virus can not attack or damage hardware.
That isn't exactly accurate. A virus can cause a hard drive to thrash continuously, load down a cpu and/or gpu to try and get them to overheat or even corrupt firmware.
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Re: CD/DVD drive not detected.
Posted 05 January 2012 - 02:40 PM
Those are standard operations of the hardware though. The virus itself can not harm the hardware. It can over-work it, but then again so does IE.
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