byers319 Posted March 15, 2011 Report Share Posted March 15, 2011 (edited) This is on my laptop, and its like nonexistent. I don't see it on my computer, and when i press the button nothing happens. The light doesn't flash yellow or green (I don't remember what color) like it normally does. Any ideas? edit: and if this matters, I'm running vista Edited March 15, 2011 by byers319 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassJunkie Posted March 16, 2011 Report Share Posted March 16, 2011 Depending on the laptop you could reseat the drive by removing a screw on the bottom and pulling the drive out. Boot up the computer, shut down the computer, reinstall drive, start computer back up. Alot of times that wont work and it winds up being a registry error, and that is not something I could tell you how to do with the amount of information I have. Also you could check device manager and see if any of the icons have an explanation point on them. Good luck Quote 1986 C20 Suburban 9 American Bass XFL 15's B2 M1MKII 14v XS Power Batteries Maxwell Caps Acoustical energy is free. Electrical energy is not you havent lived until you've hit a screw with a router. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
byers319 Posted March 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2011 well i tried removing it and that whole deal, but to no success. another thing i should note tho, when i start up my laptop there's a white screen that pops up and says something about the device in the system modular bay can not be identified. Now its popped up for a while, and the drive worked for a little bit after that window would pop up. When I started up my computer without the drive in, that window did not pop up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebel4055 Posted March 16, 2011 Report Share Posted March 16, 2011 Go into device manager and see if the drive is listed, if it is right click on it and uninstall it and then reboot your PC. Quote Rest In Peace mother. January 22, 1955 - February 14, 2013 http://www.stevemeadedesigns.com/board/user/35351-megrch/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
byers319 Posted March 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2011 Go into device manager and see if the drive is listed, if it is right click on it and uninstall it and then reboot your PC. Just did that, and it said it installed successfully. Then the white window popped up when rebooting, and it still doesn't work. I'm starting to wonder if something inside got disconnected from it? Or it just wore out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nCOMP1337 Posted March 16, 2011 Report Share Posted March 16, 2011 its possible the connector to the mother board is connected but the power supply may have become disconnected, but thats highly doubtful in a laptop, would take quite a jolting for that to happen, they arent normally able to just loosely fall out overtime did you by chance update the firmware for the disc drive, sometimes when flashing the firmware it can become corrupt and as far as the computer knows its not even there when you boot up and go into the bios is it listed as a drive on the computer, does it give you an option to boot form that drive. try going on the net to the laptop manufacturer and just to be safe look up the cd/dvd driver that came factory installed on your computer and download and install that again, maybe a reg file got corrupt and its not recognizing the issue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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