motor

666fast · 05-17-2004, 08:48 PM

Smash it with a hammer.
Don't have a hammer? Any hard, blunt instrument will work. Like bricks or a shovel.

nthfinity · 05-17-2004, 11:48 PM

my personal favorite 'what to do with useless technology' is throw from a parking garage

man i wish i had a video of those hitting the concrete

ops: :shock:

ive never had hardware fail on me~~~~~~~im lying

3 fans have failed on me, and my roommate keeps killing hard drives (working on drive #4 in the last 3 months

the other roommate had a HDD failuer that i directely blame the OEM company for being "fucking iditots" for some god unkown reason, the wrapped the Hard drive in a 'protective' rubber skin... perfect for insulation of the heat it produces!

cd drives are reletively inexpensive, so id recomend just going to either a local computer chop shop, or ebay to find one that will fit your laptop

liloutlaws · 05-18-2004, 04:21 AM

well i've checked drivers, did the virus check..there were a bunch as i suspected..cleaned those..and it still doesn't work.. i just need to reformat.. right now my first option is to first use another cd-drive w/ this laptop..if that doesn't work i'm thinking about taking the harddrive out stick it into my computer and format it like that. what you guys think?

666fast · 05-18-2004, 04:10 PM

I think you are better off buying a new one and starting from there.

liloutlaws · 05-24-2004, 06:38 PM

well good news guys...i fixed my own problem...apparently it was throwing an error code 19. i looked up the problem at the microsoft website and apparently i just had to delete some registry files and now everything works fine. Thanks for the help tho guys much appreciated!

liloutlaws · 05-24-2004, 06:39 PM

well good news guys...i fixed my own problem...apparently it was throwing an error code 19. i looked up the problem at the microsoft website and apparently i just had to delete some registry files and now everything works fine. Thanks for the help tho guys much appreciated!

v0od0o · 05-25-2004, 07:37 AM

great! I knew it was not hardware related. Good for you

stracing · 05-25-2004, 08:00 AM

is it possible for cd-rom to break when reading corrupt cd's?

i was watching a corrupt vcd, gave me an error and now my drive doesn't work. in bios is don't think its recognising it because it have an exclamation mark and it won't boot my recovery cds.

v0od0o · 05-25-2004, 02:36 PM

Originally Posted by stracing

is it possible for cd-rom to break when reading corrupt cd's?

Maybe it wasn't a corrupt vcd after all. maybe the cd-rom begad to break down while reading it....

stracing · 05-25-2004, 10:49 PM

it is currupt, doesn't play thru on a dvd player

liloutlaws · 05-27-2004, 06:29 AM

well it might be something wrong w/ the registry i dunno... on the microsoft website it says that code 19 can be caused by uninstalling certain programs. does your device manager even see the device? if so you might want to look up what error code its giving and look it up on the microsoft website

stracing · 05-27-2004, 06:49 AM

it can see it

even when i unistall it and reboot. it will reinstall and in the end it says "your device is ready to use" (something along those lines).

i'm quessing because its corrupt it screwed the motor. i think its not even spinning, coz when i put the disc in and then eject, 10/10 times its in the same position as i put it in.

v0od0o · 05-27-2004, 08:43 AM

you should hear it if it spins up when you insert a cd. If not it's probably screwed....

liloutlaws · 05-28-2004, 12:59 AM

so it says device is working properly? try going to the cd-driver's website and look at their product support or IT page..it might give you some tech support or help.

stracing · 05-28-2004, 02:58 AM

support page suck

they just pointed me back to sony

nvm i still have warranty...i'll just send it back for a fix