Comments on: After replacing the DVD drive and switching on I get an IDE ERROR message before Windows XP starts

By: Christian

Christian — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:25:53 +0000

I bought an Sony Optiarc AD-7593A for my Satellite A50 (this drive seams to be identical with NEC and Samsung AD-7593A). I had the same Error message. Fortunatly I didn’t have to solder, because Sony has a master/slave tool for the AD-7593A. You can download it here:
http://www.sony-optiarc.eu/

After I had switched the drive to master mode, the drive could be recognised by the BIOS and by WindowsXP. But first I had to find a fried, who’s notebook accepted drives running on CSEL mode.

By: Harris Berkowitz

Harris Berkowitz — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:30:31 +0000

Finally, almost after one year I solved the problem with IDE error on boot-up. The problem indeed can be solved by soldering together (soldering short) the pins 47 and 45 of the DVD rom connector. However the wire in the pins was so narrow and minute, that I could not solder them. I bought conducting silver (it’s sort of a liquid varnish with tiny silver particles) and applied it on pins 47 and 45 to make good continuity between them. It works. No IDE errors whatsoever, my laptop recognized the new dvd rom.

By: Rodney

Rodney — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:05:23 +0000

I have a Sony Vaio. It will power up and run okay while using the battery or the power cord, but if I plug in the power cord when the battery is in the laptop will shut down in about 5 to 10 minutes. Any help would be appreciated.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 04:50:23 +0000

I have a toshiba 1805-s253, the original dvd drive does not read disks, i got a new teac e28 drive, thats the same model as the faulty one, but my laptop displays the ide #1 error, and does not boot in to windows, when i insert the faulty one, the laptop boots normally. Any sugestions?, Do i have to flash the bios?, thanks.

By: waptek

waptek — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:24:35 +0000

http://images10.newegg.com/NeweggImage/productimage/27-248-004-04.JPG see the above about the original issue,
the far left pins set the master or slave settings,,,
but this is normaly done via what ever plugs into it,
it can be forced by adding an insulator (slave)
a very thin piece of wire (master) accross the pins ,
or via a “flash” or firmware upgrade,

By: Laptop Freak

Laptop Freak — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:24:13 +0000

Partha,

vertical lines running through the toshiba splash screen is a problem related to mother board.

This statement is not 100% correct.
First of all, you should test your laptop with an external monitor. If both internal and external screen display same vertical lines, most likely this problem is related to the motherboard (video card)
But if external video works fine and vertical lines appear only on the internal LCD screen, there could be a problem with the screen.

By: Partha Bose

Partha Bose — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:36:48 +0000

vertical lines running through the toshiba splash screen is a problem related to mother board. it should be repaired to solve this.

By: sam

sam — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:04:34 +0000

my brother was playing around with the settings on my laptop and the screen went blank and everytime i turn it on you can here windows load in the background but nothing comes up on the screen. he said the last thing he was doing was changing some settings on the graphics card i believe he may have turned it off. is there anyway to turn it back on? you can still wasch dvd’s on it if that helps any?

By: Bazza

Bazza — Wed, 21 May 2008 08:47:13 +0000

I think this is a problem a lot of people are having. Ive got quite used to going to standby and restarting to get the machine to see the drive. If anyone would explain in terms understandable to joe public that would be great!

By: Bazza

Bazza — Wed, 21 May 2008 08:46:46 +0000