Tech Question

[white_wolf]

I've got a friend's Gateway laptop here. It's 3 years old. It likes to randomly.. stop recognizing the CD-rom. I solved this problem the first time for them by pulling out the HD, plugging it into my comp, reformatting and reinstalling Windows. But it's done it again now

Comments

[mirage]

Probably a bad optical drive. Chat up with Gateway and ask the tech to look up the part number you need in Siebel (I worked for gateway for 3 years). They should be able to find the part number you need, or if you feel comfortable enough, just crack it open, pull the optical drive off and get the P/N that way. Then head over to ebay or froogle and buy it. I would suggest buying from someone/somewhere that has a return policy because if you get the new drive and you still have the problem, you definantly know its the mobo.

[backwoods]

I agree with Creed. Save it for one of my fires. *wink*

[suncub]

will it resee the drive if the puter is restarted, my thinkpad does that
but when you restart, it sees the drives