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DVD/CD drive malfuntion

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Lillefot

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on: July 16, 2008, 12:51:33 PM
Greetings,

Hope anyone here could help me out:

My laptop's DVD/CD drive's malfunctioning.
Symthomps? It won't play any material at all.
I entered the controll panel, and checked its drive -rutines out, two of them are malfunctioning.
It reads: (code 39)
Checked for updates: It says: already have latest updates.

Inactivated, activted again, still the same.

Whaaat's going on here? The laptop's only 1 month old, and hasn't been out for any damage. Please, teach me how to fix this.

Thanks in advance,
/Lillefot
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Reply #1 on: July 16, 2008, 01:18:47 PM
No idea if it'll help but I did a quick google search and found this site.  No idea if it'll help or make things worst, or won't help at all.  

http://www.pchell.com/hardware/cd_drive_error_code_39.shtml

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Reply #2 on: July 16, 2008, 02:07:45 PM
Welcome to Vista bud. :rolleyes: I'm sure Vista just lost the driver or some crap like that.  Have you looked in the device manager?  It sounds sorta like a driver problem.  I looked at the page that kor redirected you to and I'd say try that.  It sounds like a plausible fix to me.

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Reply #3 on: July 16, 2008, 02:32:04 PM
Quote from: landbeforetimelover,Jul 16 2008 on  01:07 PM
Welcome to Vista bud. :rolleyes:
So it begins...  :rolleyes:

Thanks to both of you guys, that fixed it. And I learned something new!  :^.^:

Ah well, maybe it will come a time when I grow into a Vista banisher, in time in time. Gonna do some research.

Thanks again!  :)
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Reply #4 on: July 16, 2008, 03:13:51 PM
I will admit that with 4gb of ram Vista runs fine for normal use, but ya still can't do anything useful on it. :rolleyes: Try editing things in photoshop and you'll see that 4gb of ram go bye bye. -_- If I were to use Vista AND be able to use my computer, 8gb of ram and a quad-core 3ghz computer would be the minimum I'd want.

Making my signature image in photoshop took over 2.5gb of ram on windows xp LITE!  On vista, geez, it'd take 4gb in a second.  Vista is a resource hog and gives nothing in return except its looks, which you can integrate into windows xp in like 2 minutes. :p

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Reply #5 on: July 16, 2008, 03:18:37 PM
Well, you might convince me!  :^.^:
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Reply #6 on: July 16, 2008, 05:41:04 PM
There are other os's you can try.  Xp, and the various types of linux.

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