DVD drive

I never used this dvd rom before and now i am trying to install windows 10 from a disc. But i cant find the correct way to insert the dvd. There isn't a holder in the center like the most of the laptops dvd rom has where the disc easily sits. There is no such holder in the center and i also...

[Moderator edit to break up solid paragraph of text.] I'M building a System from Scratch. I wanted to know which Motherboard would give me the Features I wanted. Specifically I'm looking for a Motherboard with 2 or more Onboard 2 x 2.5 Gbit/s Ethernet ports, Mobo needs to be able to support...

I have a tsstcorp sh-216bb DVD drive that I took out of my old Dell Vostro 270s and put into my new home-built rig. It seemed to work fine as it recognizes the drive, but when I went to rip a DVD, it wouldn't even recognize/acknowledge the disk. I tried to find an updated driver, but I cant...

I have an older Alienware laptop that I "fried" a couple years ago. I took an external DVD drive, plugged it into the USB port of the laptop. Then I put the wrong AC adapter into the DVD drive. BOOM! instantly killed the laptop. Is it a cheap hardware replacement, or would it be a whole...

Can it do it or i am assured to have problem if i do so. If possible can i put it on my SSD too?

I am aware of the old adage "Molex to SATA, lose all your data." but I don't have enough money for a good PSU at the moment, so I have no choice but to use one of these adapters. I understand that I should buy the punchdown-type cables instead of the molded ones since the latter always ends up...

I’m in urgent need of a Sata power cable to hook up a disc reader so I can re-install Windows on my broken PC. I had one lurking about in my PC but it’s too wide (Takes up about half of the data slot). I have counted it’s a 15 pin that I tried and looking around online there doesn’t seem to be...

Hi, I’m looking for advice on replacing the failed LG GTA0N optical disk drive in my Dell T7910 workstation. What would be a reliable drive to replace my existing, but failed LG GTA0N optical disk drive? This drive seems to have been discontinued. Besides, it failed after very little use. My...

So I installed Windows 7 to my 1TB SSD last night, got it all up and running with drivers and stuffs then noticed my DVD/Bluray drive was missing. I used the device manager to scan for hardware changes, Windows Update would pop up for a moment, try to install the driver for the Standard Dual...

Hi there, I have an odd question regarding installing games with an external DVD drive. So I already found out that it is possible but some games require you to have the disc in while playing and that won't work over an USB connection so my question is this; Is there an way to play the game...

I just installed an somewhat old DVD-player for my computer, but it only reads CDs and I cant get it to read any DVDs. Why is that? Thanks in advance

hey guys, my CPU cabinet's inbuilt CD/DVD drive is not working. the computer store guy has told me that it cannot be repaired and i have to buy a new cabinet. Is there any alternative of such inbuilt drives. like, is there any external cd player to connect it with the pc with usb so that i can...

I have been having issues that when I install some of my old games from my DVD Drive, it is very slow. Is there any way to fix this?

hi , i have a question , that maybe is a bit of a noob question . but why one cable that my PSU have that is splited in two power sata cable only one of them can power on my dvd drive and the other not ? the one that don´t power on the dvd drive can power on HDD´s .

I have an acer aspire 8920g it doesn't want to boot. it makes a ticking noise or a clicking noise from somewhere presumably speakers it does this constantly while the internal monitor is plugged into the mainboard round 2 ticks a second( blown capacitor ? ) i have been through a process of...