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post #1 of 6
12/31/09 at 11:54pm
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I have a dell inspiron e1705, and my dvd player is not playing the dvd at certain points on it. i tried playing it in another dvd player of mine, and it worked fine. is it my computer, or hardware/software?... it makes sounds like it is trying to read it... made sure to clean off the disc {did it several times}. this is not the first time that this has happened either.

thanks!
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post #2 of 6
1/1/10 at 12:50am
most likely the DVD Drive needs to be replaced.

They are easily replaced, and available on Ebay for not too much $$$$
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post #3 of 6
1/1/10 at 11:07am
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shoot; well, how do i know for sure then that i need to replace it? can i run some program to find out whats wrong with it?
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post #4 of 6
1/1/10 at 1:51pm
Hard to test optical drive for error. Have you tried with different media player? Try re-seating it?

cheers ...
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post #5 of 6
1/1/10 at 4:05pm
tpyically what you see when the DVD drives starts to fail is errors reading disks, usually Burned CDs are hard to read, tehn Commercial ones start to fail in the drive.

These drives have been basically deesigned to be throw away, considering they are priced around $ 25.00 - 50.00
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post #6 of 6
1/1/10 at 4:28pm
Did you clean the drive itself? But as Dave said it is a disposable part. Any little alignment issue in what is a pretty flimsy transport can cause.

Also is it just this disc? Or more. Oh my the old days using markers around the edge?
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