8/28/2008 7:02:34 PM |
Help Needed... Aspire 5610Z dvd/cd doesn't work |
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not2timid
North Brookfield, MA
age: 47
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Please help me as my nerves are shot... this computer, I know it is inanimate and I shouldn't call it names. So far I have been able to remember that part of computer 101. However, the dvd/cd doesn't work so therefore when it comes to reloading my info for my printer... which it don't want to recognize or my camera - which needs the use of that component... I'm left in the creek w/o a paddle!
Oh yeah - to top it off this glorified piece of life's neccesity is
VISTA.
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8/28/2008 7:09:07 PM |
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pennell23101
Vine Grove, KY
age: 32
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best bet on all vista drivers is to go to the website for the manufacturer of the device (printer and camera) and download the newest vista driver and save it then run it.
as for the drive, if yo know how to use a boot disk, try one in it to see if it will boot from it cause that will let you know if its drive failure or Vista
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8/28/2008 9:13:50 PM |
Help Needed... Aspire 5610Z dvd/cd doesn't work |
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not2timid
North Brookfield, MA
age: 47
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No boot disk came with this beauty! and when I go online for the other ... or course it's not avail for this model... sorry this isn't written in computer terminology.
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8/29/2008 5:12:39 AM |
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1sledhead
Kamloops, BC
age: 50
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When all else fails pull the memory card out and just read that, SD to USB device posible
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8/29/2008 6:33:05 AM |
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jamis0n
Willow Spring, NC
age: 35
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I'm sorry to hear you have Vista
Does the CD work at all? Will it read other discs? Does it open and close normally? If you right click the drive and select eject, will it open?
At worst a new DVD writer will run you $30.. Easy swap also.
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8/29/2008 6:37:08 AM |
Help Needed... Aspire 5610Z dvd/cd doesn't work |
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jamis0n
Willow Spring, NC
age: 35
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When all else fails pull the memory card out and just read that, SD to USB device posible
I paid about $6 for mine.. My camera has a dock (yeah I know.. Had all the other features I wanted though...)
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8/29/2008 6:54:56 AM |
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not2timid
North Brookfield, MA
age: 47
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The drive opens and closes but doesn't work... it is almost like it divorced itself from the rest of the computer.
This happened before and I Acer was going to send me out a new computer cpu... or it's laptop equivalent... then some tech called me up and said hey ... try this... enter. *.... whatever he said into the search... then from there he led me through something rather quickly... I had to reboot and I was done.
I had the number to call back in case it happened again... I called and now The stupids have been hired... they have not helped me or have forced me to hangup because of the long wait!
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8/29/2008 7:10:15 AM |
Help Needed... Aspire 5610Z dvd/cd doesn't work |
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sdcentaur
Sioux Falls, SD
age: 48
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Never trust a computer that's easy to toss through a window.
Sounds like a driver file went fubar or lost in the registry. Don't ya love being put on eternal hold?
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8/29/2008 7:21:43 AM |
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not2timid
North Brookfield, MA
age: 47
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centaur...
NO I don't... so I rigged my phone up and when they finally answer me ... this is what they hear:
Now you know why I am asking my questions on dh !!!
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8/29/2008 6:47:51 PM |
Help Needed... Aspire 5610Z dvd/cd doesn't work |
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pennell23101
Vine Grove, KY
age: 32
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may not help, but try a system restore back to when it was working, it only works about 25% of the time but worth a try.
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8/29/2008 8:18:25 PM |
Help Needed... Aspire 5610Z dvd/cd doesn't work |
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not2timid
North Brookfield, MA
age: 47
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Thanks... in that 75% group.
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8/29/2008 8:21:40 PM |
Help Needed... Aspire 5610Z dvd/cd doesn't work |
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pennell23101
Vine Grove, KY
age: 32
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sounds like drive may have physically failed...any free diagnostic shops around you?
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8/29/2008 10:45:42 PM |
Help Needed... Aspire 5610Z dvd/cd doesn't work |
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not2timid
North Brookfield, MA
age: 47
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I don't know... something for me to check on next week... and how would I find one of those?
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8/29/2008 11:00:28 PM |
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sdcentaur
Sioux Falls, SD
age: 48
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I don't know... something for me to check on next week... and how would I find one of those?
Yellow pages?
Bribe me to stop by on my next trio to PA?
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8/30/2008 6:10:10 AM |
Help Needed... Aspire 5610Z dvd/cd doesn't work |
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not2timid
North Brookfield, MA
age: 47
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Hmm, I like the sound of the bribe better... and Timid walks aways with her mind mixing those thoughts together, questioning, bribe, bribe... what is the best bribe one could use?
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