If You Cannot Play A Dvd Movie; If You Have A Hard Drive Problem - Dell Inspiron 8100 Service Manual

Solving Problems : Dell Inspiron 8100
If you have one CD in the fixed optical drive and one CD in the media
bay drive— Identify which CD is not playing:
1. Double-click the My Computer icon on your desktop.
2. Double-click the drive letter of the device the you are verifying.

If you cannot play a DVD movie

HINT: Because of different worldwide file types, not all DVD titles work in all DVD
drives.
Ensure that Windows recognizes the drive—
Computer icon. If the DVD drive is not listed, perform a full scan with your
antivirus software to check for and remove viruses. Viruses can sometimes
prevent Windows from recognizing the drive.
Test the drive with another DVD—
possibility that the original DVD is defective.
Clean the disc— See the
If the CD-RW drive stops writing
HINT: If you must disable standby mode to write to a CD-RW drive, remember to enable
standby mode again when you finish writing the CD.
Disable standby mode in Windows before writing to a
CD-RW disk— Search for the keyword standby in
Change the write speed to a slower rate—
steady stream of data when writing. If the stream is interrupted, an error
occurs. Closing all programs before writing to the CD-RW may also alleviate the
problem.

If you have a hard drive problem

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Insert another DVD to eliminate the
Tell Me How help file for instructions.
Double-click the My
Windows Help.
The CD-RW drive must receive a