My brand new dell studio 1737 will only play some cds and will not play dvds

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My dell studio laptop (one month old) has problems playing dvds

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Inspiron 1100 skips when playing media

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Can't Play Dvds

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Dell Inspiron 530 not recognizing HL-DT-ST-DVD+-RW GSA-H73N ATA. Downloaded latest driver. No luck. Plays CDs fine, but not DVDs. I've checked in Device manager and it says the DVD RW is working fine. I've also tried Microsoft fix-it and it has detected problem but cannot solve it. My computer has played DVD's in the past - this is a new issue.

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My "FN' key does not work.

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Dell 280 with new memorex dvd/cd player. no sound with dvds

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My laptop dvd just stopped playing my data cds and dvds that it used to play just fine. I get the message ''unsupported format in Drive E''. The dvd plays audio cds and dvds just fine. I can burn new cds and dvds just fine. I can play cds to install new programs. I scanned my computer for driver problems and found none. I cleaned the dvd optics and that didn't help. What is my problem and can it be fixed or do I need to just buy a new dvd player? Other ''experts'' have told me that I have a soft

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Only reads some disks.

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My dell inspiron 9300 reads and plays DVDs, but does not detect any other type of CD in the CD/DVD drive (music, data, etc.). i've had a problem before where it didn't read CDs or DVDs and it turned out to be a corrupt registry (caused by some AV software that i had installed). this time, there is no error message, other than it asks to insert a disc when there is a disc already in the drive. any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! thanks!

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My new laptop won't play dvds

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Dell Studio 1537 (Vista) Integrated Webcam no longer working??

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Unable to read cds /dvds, made by me, of my photos. It will play pre recorded DVDs. ie Palin set. can see files but then computer hangs. Running Vista. Similar occurs on my desktop but I get the blue screen of death on that!

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Dell laptop DVD issue

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My brand new dell studio 1737 will only play some cds and will not play dvds

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Sony NEC OptiArc can't read but can write!!!

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Have no sound on computor, wont play cds dvds or anything, have checked all volume levels etc dont even get start up tune, problem has only just started until last month i had all sounds etc

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Problem with disc drive

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Lenovo laptop not booting from any CD, But able to read other Cds

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DVD-ROM drive reads CDs, but not DVDs Dell x-200

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My computer got broke so i installed new installion of windows xp and now that one got messed up and i need to restore the factory settings but i cant get the d2d erecovery to work can you help me my computer is an acer aspire one series mother board aoa150

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DVD-RW PROBLEM Suddenly my dvd will not play my data cds that it used to play. I get the message "unsupported format in Drive E". It plays audio cds and cds to install new programs. It burns new cds with no problem. My cds and dvds are OK because they play perfectly on my other laptop. I scanned my computer for a driver problem and found no problem. I cleaned the dvd optics, but that didn't help. What is the problem and can it be fixed or do I need to replace the dvd?

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Drive can't read DVD

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Acer aspire 2930 DVD player only opens some dvds

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