My comp does not recognize cd disk

Discussion in 'CD-R' started by curious, Dec 20, 2002.

  1. curious

    curious Member

    Joined:
    Dec 20, 2002
    Messages:
    6
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    11
    Hi,
    I have mailed this question about 5 minutes ago but I am not quite sure if it was posted.If it did get posted then please excuse the repitition,if it did not post, then here goes:
    I have a Toshiba laptop with 1.2ghz celeron,Win XP O/S WITH 256MEGS OF RAM.The CD drive does not recognize a disk when I pop in the disk and comes with this message.
    "Please load a disk in drive D" which is the cd drive.
    I checked the system under control panel and everything including the drivers are recognized by the comp.
    Can you please HELP?
    Thanks in advance
    CURIOUS
     
  2. riksworld

    riksworld Regular member

    Joined:
    Dec 8, 2002
    Messages:
    81
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    26
    hi

    i am a laptop it engineer working for a large company, where did you buy it from and model is it, it`s not a 3000-x4 by any chance?

    Rik.
     
    Last edited: Dec 22, 2002
  3. curious

    curious Member

    Joined:
    Dec 20, 2002
    Messages:
    6
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    11
    Hi,
    Thanks for your replying. The notebook is a Toshiba Satellite 1800.It was purchased from the dealer. I can always take it back to be repaired under warranty,but I was wandering if it is a minor problem that I can straighten out without openning the machine then I would like to give it a shot.Can you think of something that I can try?
    Thanks
    Curious
     
  4. riksworld

    riksworld Regular member

    Joined:
    Dec 8, 2002
    Messages:
    81
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    26
    yes, i know this model very well, we repaire them in our workshop

    what model is it?

    1800-400/814/214/714?

    it is important as the motherboards are different.

    what extactly does it say.

    did u get it from dixons/currys or pc world?

    Rik.
     
    Last edited: Dec 22, 2002
  5. curious

    curious Member

    Joined:
    Dec 20, 2002
    Messages:
    6
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    11
    Hi,
    The model # is PS183C-00VFIP.
    I live in Canada and it was purchased from a dealer in Toronto
     
    Last edited: Dec 23, 2002
  6. riksworld

    riksworld Regular member

    Joined:
    Dec 8, 2002
    Messages:
    81
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    26
    i have checked the toshiba reseller portal, whichgave me all the details on your machine

    we had this problem before, a engineer had to change the main system board as the controller on the board had failed, same fault

    seems to be a little too common this problem, i would suggest your get it uplifted to the toshiba workshop

    at the moment we are getting failing rates of 40% its the drive iteself and 60% of the time it is the board at fault

     
  7. curious

    curious Member

    Joined:
    Dec 20, 2002
    Messages:
    6
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    11
    Thanks for your timely advise.I shall arrange to send the laptop to Toshiba after the holidays
    Meanwhile wish you and yours a very happy safe holiday.
    Curious
     

Share This Page