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    DVD Mat****a not working under Bootcamp, HELP!!!!

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by jczet4, Dec 25, 2007.

  1. jczet4

    jczet4 Notebook Enthusiast

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    hi... i had tryed several ways to make it work but till now none of those havent done anything, for some reason my dvd rom its not working anymore under bootcamp.

    i already re-instaled all the drivers that came with bootcamp and even unistall it and then instaled again, cant even see the driver over mypc, so iam only watching like C! nothing more :( iam getting tyred of this cuz iam not planning to format my whole pc everytime i get an error from bootcamp, had tryed to find several firmwares but iam afraid that it could lead to a whole system crash or at least my dvd room drive!... any ideas? HELP!!!, bye

    PS: This is the model Mat****a UJ-857E
     
    jczet4, Dec 25, 2007
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    Sam Notebook Virtuoso

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    Just to clear things up, that is Matsh ita (without the space). Its censored because putting the two words together creates a swear word in the middle, and its automatically censored ;).
     
    Sam, Dec 25, 2007
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    lol, but you got any posible answer to this problem?
     
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    We need a bit more info to help. What version of OS X are you using? Have you dumped your Windows partition and reinstalled through the bootcamp set up assistant? Has the DVD drive ever worked in Windows via bootcamp? What are you trying to do with the DVD rom drive? Play DVD's, gaming, what???
     
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    ok... ahmm iam running windows XP under bootcamp, my dvd rom drive worked great the first few weeks, but now it cant event show the unit from mypc panel and when i enter in the system hardware check i saw that the dvd rom drive had a yellow icon that says that it not working, iam trying to play any dvd or even made it work this rom, i was planning to uninstal allll my data just to fix this :S but its not wortly, i even tryed to update the firmare from window but it didnt fix anything. Version of bootcamp 1.4, Dvd rom drive Mat****a UJ-857E, Windows XP SP 2, failure detected between 1 month and 2 months after it was installed, problem under mac os X null, it work great but sometimes launch errors while burning dvds, thanks for the help
     
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    Sounds like you are running Tiger and bootcamp? Even though Bootcamp is expiring at the end of this month I am not going to say that's the problem but I would recommend to dump your Windows partition and just go through the bootcamp setup assistant and install Windows again, this will be your best fix since it's not your primary OS anyway.
     
    HLdan, Dec 25, 2007
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