Comments on: Tips for buying a new notebook DVD drive http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2006/05/10/buy-new-notebook-dvd-drive-tips/ Laptop and Notebook Repair and Troubleshooting Tips. Laptop repair guy helps to find and fix the problem. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:49:10 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Danny http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2006/05/10/buy-new-notebook-dvd-drive-tips/comment-page-2/#comment-108112 Danny Sun, 17 May 2009 05:29:24 +0000 http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2006/05/10/tips-for-buying-a-new-notebook-dvd-drive/#comment-108112 I want to put a bluray drive on a toshiba a215 s4757 laptop. What kind do i buy? I want to put a bluray drive on a toshiba a215 s4757 laptop. What kind do i buy?

]]> By: Bart M http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2006/05/10/buy-new-notebook-dvd-drive-tips/comment-page-2/#comment-97569 Bart M Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:17:11 +0000 http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2006/05/10/tips-for-buying-a-new-notebook-dvd-drive/#comment-97569 Hi, I have quite an old DVD ROM drive in a Thinkpad (Matshita SR-8171). I can not get it to play most DVD's as it just freezes or doesn't recognise the disk. It plays audio CD's fine. However what I have noticed is that it plays a few DVD's which are short in total duration, 60 mins or less (e.g. my child’s cartoons). I don’t use any writeable disks(e.g. DVD-R etc), they are all originals. Is there any technical explanation for a DVD drive not playing DVD's when the video is of longer duration? Many thanks Hi,
I have quite an old DVD ROM drive in a Thinkpad (Matshita SR-8171). I can not get it to play most DVD’s as it just freezes or doesn’t recognise the disk. It plays audio CD’s fine.

However what I have noticed is that it plays a few DVD’s which are short in total duration, 60 mins or less (e.g. my child’s cartoons).
I don’t use any writeable disks(e.g. DVD-R etc), they are all originals.

Is there any technical explanation for a DVD drive not playing DVD’s when the video is of longer duration?

Many thanks

]]> By: aho http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2006/05/10/buy-new-notebook-dvd-drive-tips/comment-page-2/#comment-97547 aho Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:13:13 +0000 http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2006/05/10/tips-for-buying-a-new-notebook-dvd-drive/#comment-97547 yes i have an inspiron drive from my old laptop...the motherboard died a month ago.....i got this toshiba from someone else...drive doesnt work...so trying to change the drive .......is that possible? yes i have an inspiron drive from my old laptop…the motherboard died a month ago…..i got this toshiba from someone else…drive doesnt work…so trying to change the drive …….is that possible?

]]> By: cj2600 http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2006/05/10/buy-new-notebook-dvd-drive-tips/comment-page-2/#comment-97546 cj2600 Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:06:58 +0000 http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2006/05/10/tips-for-buying-a-new-notebook-dvd-drive/#comment-97546 aho, <blockquote> Can i replace a toshiba Model no:PSM30E-7101V-7U laptop dvd drive with an inspiron 5160 dvd drive? WHAT SHOULD I LOOK FOR IN DETERMINING COMPATIBLE DVD DRIVES?</blockquote> Do you have that Inspiron drive? Can you try? <blockquote>Also how can I determine what model of toshiba I have it says satellite but thats it!!</blockquote>You can find some info about the drive in the device manager. Even though the optical drive is bad, most likely it's still detected by the computer. Also, take a look at the DVD drive entry in the BIOS menu. aho,

Can i replace a toshiba Model no:PSM30E-7101V-7U laptop dvd drive with an inspiron
5160 dvd drive?

WHAT SHOULD I LOOK FOR IN DETERMINING COMPATIBLE DVD DRIVES?

Do you have that Inspiron drive? Can you try?

Also how can I determine what model of toshiba I have it says satellite but thats it!!

You can find some info about the drive in the device manager. Even though the optical drive is bad, most likely it’s still detected by the computer. Also, take a look at the DVD drive entry in the BIOS menu.

]]> By: aho http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2006/05/10/buy-new-notebook-dvd-drive-tips/comment-page-1/#comment-97539 aho Mon, 23 Mar 2009 05:52:11 +0000 http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2006/05/10/tips-for-buying-a-new-notebook-dvd-drive/#comment-97539 Can i replace a toshiba Model no:PSM30E-7101V-7U laptop dvd drive with an inspiron 5160 dvd drive? Also how can I determine what model of toshiba I have it says satellite but thats it!! FEEDBACK IS GREATLY APPRECIATED? WHAT SHOULD I LOOK FOR IN DETERMINING COMPATIBLE DVD DRIVES? Can i replace a toshiba Model no:PSM30E-7101V-7U laptop dvd drive with an inspiron 5160 dvd drive?

Also how can I determine what model of toshiba I have it says satellite but thats it!! FEEDBACK IS GREATLY APPRECIATED?

WHAT SHOULD I LOOK FOR IN DETERMINING COMPATIBLE DVD DRIVES?

]]> By: Danny Beard http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2006/05/10/buy-new-notebook-dvd-drive-tips/comment-page-1/#comment-95552 Danny Beard Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:44:55 +0000 http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2006/05/10/tips-for-buying-a-new-notebook-dvd-drive/#comment-95552 This is such a critical tip and one that should not be overlooked. I was dumb enough to buy a replacement drive recently without checking out if it was compatiable on the manufacturers website and now I have a worhtless extra DVD drive that I can't do anything with. ALWAYS go to the manufacturers website and make sure the item you are buying is compaitble. Great post and I wish I had found it months ago. Take care. This is such a critical tip and one that should not be overlooked. I was dumb enough to buy a replacement drive recently without checking out if it was compatiable on the manufacturers website and now I have a worhtless extra DVD drive that I can’t do anything with. ALWAYS go to the manufacturers website and make sure the item you are buying is compaitble. Great post and I wish I had found it months ago. Take care.

]]> By: Izzy http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2006/05/10/buy-new-notebook-dvd-drive-tips/comment-page-1/#comment-92883 Izzy Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:55:10 +0000 http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2006/05/10/tips-for-buying-a-new-notebook-dvd-drive/#comment-92883 Hi, i've got a toshiba satellite u300 13u laptop on vista, the cd/dvd drive appears to have disappeared, and won't recognise anything you put in it what do you think the problem is? hardware or software? and how do you fix it? thanks a lot Izzy Hi, i’ve got a toshiba satellite u300 13u laptop on vista,

the cd/dvd drive appears to have disappeared, and won’t recognise anything you put in it

what do you think the problem is? hardware or software? and how do you fix it?

thanks a lot
Izzy

]]> By: bayu http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2006/05/10/buy-new-notebook-dvd-drive-tips/comment-page-1/#comment-92628 bayu Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:54:30 +0000 http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2006/05/10/tips-for-buying-a-new-notebook-dvd-drive/#comment-92628 i have an Acer TM2310 laptop with Matshita UJDA760 DVD/CD-RW drive. Last night i was watching movie from my DVD drive. The movie played well and there was no problems at all. But today, when i want to watch that movie again, my DVD won't play. If i insert data DVD, it's just fine. I take another DVD movie, it's stop again. I need some idea what's going on my DVD combo... thanks for reply. i have an Acer TM2310 laptop with Matshita UJDA760 DVD/CD-RW drive. Last night i was watching movie from my DVD drive. The movie played well and there was no problems at all. But today, when i want to watch that movie again, my DVD won’t play. If i insert data DVD, it’s just fine. I take another DVD movie, it’s stop again. I need some idea what’s going on my DVD combo… thanks for reply.

]]> By: Bogdan George http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2006/05/10/buy-new-notebook-dvd-drive-tips/comment-page-1/#comment-89749 Bogdan George Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:23:20 +0000 http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2006/05/10/tips-for-buying-a-new-notebook-dvd-drive/#comment-89749 On all dvd drives you can turn them from c-sel to master-slave setting by soldering the pins 45-47 of the drive connector - when you look from above the connector the pins 45-47 are at the very left - is something like a jumper that grounds the two pins. So you can get most of the drives that are c-sel and transform them to m/sl but take heed when soldering the pins as they are darn small Bye Bogdan On all dvd drives you can turn them from c-sel to master-slave setting by soldering the pins 45-47 of the drive connector – when you look from above the connector the pins 45-47 are at the very left – is something like a jumper that grounds the two pins. So you can get most of the drives that are c-sel and transform them to m/sl but take heed when soldering the pins as they are darn small
Bye
Bogdan

]]> By: G Music http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2006/05/10/buy-new-notebook-dvd-drive-tips/comment-page-1/#comment-85826 G Music Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:18:10 +0000 http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2006/05/10/tips-for-buying-a-new-notebook-dvd-drive/#comment-85826 I have a Toshiba Satellite A15-S157. I tried to replace the original CDRW/DVD combo drive with a Samsung (TSST) Combo drive SN-M242D, but I received an IDE #1 error. All posts that I've read points to the problem being that the Samsung drive is set to Master in the firmware, but the Toshiba laptop Bios doesn't recognize it because it needs to be a Slave. I need to obtain the software to change my new Samsung combo drive from Master to Slave. Can you help? I have a Toshiba Satellite A15-S157. I tried to replace the original CDRW/DVD combo drive with a Samsung (TSST) Combo drive SN-M242D, but I received an IDE #1 error. All posts that I’ve read points to the problem being that the Samsung drive is set to Master in the firmware, but the Toshiba laptop Bios doesn’t recognize it because it needs to be a Slave. I need to obtain the software to change my new Samsung combo drive from Master to Slave. Can you help?

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