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[Solved] Optical drive in laptop reads inverted colors for some reason?

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mildgamer001   10-22-2011 at 04:21:08 AM

I have an asus k52f-bbr5 laptop, i have used the dvd drive many many times and yesterday it started reading dvds wrong, now they are all in inverted colors and i didnt change any settings, is this an easy fix problem or do i have to go find parts, im not sure of my warrantee on it but i would rather not send it in just to lose all my files and things like that, which has been known to happen occasionally.

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yo_yo2400   10-22-2011 at 04:44:46 AM

Well DVD drives are cheap and easy to replace.
http://images.highspeedbackbone.ne [...] l14-ro.jpg
should just be able to remove the screw right to the right of the top of the CD drive.
Replacements are like 25 bucks.

Hope that helps good luck!

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mildgamer001   10-22-2011 at 01:49:02 PM

well the problem is that i really dont want to open up my laptop. it isnt that i dont trust myself but i need it for school and all my files are on it. and ive seen desktop replacements for like 8 bucks but i need a certain on ethat fits into my laptop. and the asus website doesnt actually have a shopping feature it just advertises, and they only advertize certain products in their lineup.

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yo_yo2400   10-22-2011 at 09:09:17 PM

Well all CD drives use the same form factor. Pull it out and see the model. Google it and buy it.

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mildgamer001   10-25-2011 at 02:14:02 AM

first, not in laptops, companies built the outer shape etc on the optical drives to fit into their laptops correctly, and two, i figured out it isnt my optical drive, its my windows media player, it got corrupted somehow and i dont have permissions on my own comuter because of some stupid crap and so i cant delete the corrupted on e, and i cant download it off microsoft.com because all it says is that it comes with windows 7.

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Ubrales   10-25-2011 at 03:45:09 AM

Do a Win 7 repair.

 

Can you do a 'System Restore' to a known good previous date?

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mildgamer001   12-15-2011 at 03:38:44 AM

Ubrales wrote :

Do a Win 7 repair.

Can you do a 'System Restore' to a known good previous date?



nope. didnt come with any repair disks and i still haven't copied one of my own because it takes two disks and i really dont want to take all the time making one, even though i know i should, anyway, i just deleted media player, i will download a new one from somewhere at some point soon so problem solves for the most part.

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Ubrales   12-15-2011 at 04:36:15 PM
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nope. didnt come with any repair disks and i still haven't copied one of my own because it takes two disks and i really dont want to take all the time making one, even though i know i should, anyway, i just deleted media player, i will download a new one from somewhere at some point soon so problem solves for the most part.


VLC player may be a good alternative.

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mildgamer001   01-02-2012 at 12:47:31 AM

Ubrales wrote :

VLC player may be a good alternative.


been told that a couple times before, ill check it out. thanks. marking thread as solved.

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mildgamer001   01-02-2012 at 12:48:43 AM

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Ubrales   01-02-2012 at 01:37:03 AM

Thank you!

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