Laptop stuck on Acer screen!

[Ryan_Romeo_]

Hello All,

 

Got a acer laptop that when booting hangs on the acer screen for ages! But if i remove the CD drive it boots up fine, i have tried reinstalling the drivers but that did not seem to make a difference, when checking event logs got a spam of "Error cdrom, Event ID=11, The driver detected a controller error on \device\CdRom0."

 

If any one could suggest something to try that would be great haha as im pulling my hair out over it really got me stuck!

 

Ryan

[Joanne]

sounds like a faulty drive. You tried changing the CD drive?

[Ryan_Romeo_]

No I will have to find another member of staff with the same laptop and swap the disc drives over and see if it makes any difference!

 

Thanks Ryan

[Joanne]

Good luck!

[mowgli82]

I have the same problem - the drive is faulty inserting a known working one fixes the issue. You don't seem to be able to disable the CD drive in the bios either

[LeMarchand]

I have the same problem - the drive is faulty inserting a known working one fixes the issue. You don't seem to be able to disable the CD drive in the bios either

 

If you've got a suitably sized drive from another otherwise dead laptop you can sometimes swap parts over if you have the patience. The fascias are usually a PITA to swap over, though.

[Ryan_Romeo_]

I managed to find a laptop with the same disc drive, swapped them over and it works fine now! Thanks very much for the help guys!!

 

Just got to get a disc drive ordered now to fix the spare laptop haha!

 

Ryan

[Joanne]

Yeah there are a few types of drive. Standard size, thin size, IDE and SATA. Just check which one you have and get one for around £15. You don't need the exact same one

[Oaktech]

I've got a few different drives kicking around, if you post a pic of your drive I'll see if I have anything matching. If I have, you can bung me a couple of quid for postage and have one. They'll only go out with WEEE otherwise!

[Ryan_Romeo_]

That would be great if you had one! This is what I'm after or something similar:

 

[Oaktech]

It just looks like a standard drive with no fancy bezel. In theory any old Sata drive should fit. I've got a couple of Lite-On ones I've been holding onto just in case, but i'm upgrading to bluray reader now when a drive dies. So these are just sat in my WEEE pile! PM me your details and I'll bung one in the post.