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| Aug 22nd, 2006 09:59 PM | |||
| Archduke Tips |
Sorry, for some reason I was thinking hard drives. It should be the same type of controller though. So what exactly happens when it doesn't read a DVD? Does it get the DVD spinning at all? There is a certain difficulty in diagnosing a problem with a PC remotely because so many things could be causing the DVD reader to fail. My advice would be to live with it until the component that is causing the problem completely fails. Then you will know what was bad and you don't spend any extra money. |
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| Aug 19th, 2006 07:53 PM | |||
| James |
I have a SATA drive, but my computer isn't even a year old. Keep in mind I'm talking about my DVD drive, not a hard drive. |
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| Aug 19th, 2006 07:03 PM | |||
| Archduke Tips |
What kind of controller does the hard drive use? The main types are ATA, RAID, and SATA. If the drive uses a small cable with kind of a thin termination that only has a few gold pins on a small insert in the middle of it, then you have SATA. If it uses a bunch of pins then it is ATA or RAID. Its searching for a parallel drive, and you may have a serial drive. Sometimes this can get reset in the BIOS. Also, your hard drive might just be fucked. When those things give out, it is very hard to fix them. |
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| Aug 14th, 2006 10:53 PM | |||
| Fathom Zero | I believe he's talking about the setup in the BIOS, you know, the F1/F2/DEL command during boot-up. | ||
| Aug 14th, 2006 06:05 PM | |||
| James |
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| Aug 13th, 2006 12:34 PM | |||
| Archduke Tips | Do you use a surge protector? | ||
| Aug 9th, 2006 08:57 AM | |||
| whoreable | sounds like you have a dell, if so go into the setup and reset the defaults to redetect the drives(press alt-f). | ||
| Aug 1st, 2006 06:55 PM | |||
| James |
Computer Sometimes Won't Read DVD Drive We've been having thunderstorms around here, so I've been turning my computer off every now and then. We've had power outages, but my computer was off as those times. Twice now, when I turn my system back on, I get this message; Drive 3 not found: Parallel ATA, PATA-1 (PRI IDE Slave) Then it asks me to his F1 to continue, or F2 to setup the drive. I hit F1, and the drive doesn't show up at all, and has no power to open the tray. I have to restart my system again to get it to recognize the drive. When I have the chance, I'll open it up and see if there's anything to clean out or loose connections. But would there be any other reasons this is happening? Since it ONLY happens when I turn my computer off and back on (2 out of the last 3 times), and not WHILE the computer's running, I don't think it's a physical issue. |
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