Tony Bensley
Senior HTF Member
Last night, on the DVD Drive of my 10 year old Acer PC Laptop, I put in a DVD from the PD SHIRLEY TEMPLE & FRIENDS set by Echo Bridge.
The reason I mention this is as soon as I put in the disc, the DVD Drive started getting rather noisy. Also, about 2 minutes into the disc (I was playing DORA'S DUNKING DONUTS), the DVD froze up. When I pressed the eject button on the DVD Drive, it refused to open, and I had to implement the paperclip in the hole trick to remove the DVD from the Drive.
The problem is, now pressing the physical eject button on the DVD Drive no longer works at all! I've tried the Eject via the File Explorer command within "My PC." I even tried rebooting my PC, but nothing has worked. I've had to reconfigure the layout of my laptop to make it a bit easier to implement the paperclip trick method, but the hole is really hard to find and I really don't like having to jostle my Laptop around every time I need to open the DVD Drive!
Even if I could afford a new Laptop, getting one with a DVD Drive is likely next to impossible these days, which makes this problem a huge PITA!
Is there any trick that I'm missing that might work to fix my problem, or am I pretty much SOL regarding this?
I should also mention that while I do have an external Pioneer BD-RW drive, it is set to Region 2 for DVD playback. Therefore, ignoring my built-in DVD Drive isn't a viable option, at present!
CHEERS!
The reason I mention this is as soon as I put in the disc, the DVD Drive started getting rather noisy. Also, about 2 minutes into the disc (I was playing DORA'S DUNKING DONUTS), the DVD froze up. When I pressed the eject button on the DVD Drive, it refused to open, and I had to implement the paperclip in the hole trick to remove the DVD from the Drive.
The problem is, now pressing the physical eject button on the DVD Drive no longer works at all! I've tried the Eject via the File Explorer command within "My PC." I even tried rebooting my PC, but nothing has worked. I've had to reconfigure the layout of my laptop to make it a bit easier to implement the paperclip trick method, but the hole is really hard to find and I really don't like having to jostle my Laptop around every time I need to open the DVD Drive!
Even if I could afford a new Laptop, getting one with a DVD Drive is likely next to impossible these days, which makes this problem a huge PITA!
Is there any trick that I'm missing that might work to fix my problem, or am I pretty much SOL regarding this?
I should also mention that while I do have an external Pioneer BD-RW drive, it is set to Region 2 for DVD playback. Therefore, ignoring my built-in DVD Drive isn't a viable option, at present!
CHEERS!