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..oh the dvd rom drive
i'm an absolutely frazzled technical bam obviously needin help, - please,
....i cannot get dvd to play and am unsure if the problem lies with the hardware or because i installed a thing called a codec (divx) on february, which i now cant seem to uninstall because error message says i'm not system administrator - even tho i know that i am!..bear with me.....so i tried to do that system restore thing but can't seem to get it to go back to february, (last restore point only goes back bout 3 wks)...okay..so..i think what i wanna ask is (1) how do i know if it is actually a hardware problem or not...(2) can i restore way back in time even if the date isn't listed?....oh and i checked in the bit saying device manager and it said working fine and also went into a 'regedit' bit looking for thing called upper and lower filters (found that on another site) and (3) can you help me, i have read absolutely ever wee thread, well nearly all, in this bit and in the update discussion bit for hours now and the only thing i am sure of is that it isn't a driver problem...i think because i didn't have the option to roll it back...somebody?...anybody? |
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..oh the dvd rom drive
okay, 3hours later and i have managed to delete the software divx, only had
to turn off the user accounts, but it's not made any difference, dvd rw drive still not working and when i click on it with the disc in it just ejects and says insert a disc when there was already one in it. (and i really don't think the upper and lower filter had anything to do with the problem because it's always been a vista.) "melmay04" wrote: i'm an absolutely frazzled technical bam obviously needin help, - please, ...i cannot get dvd to play and am unsure if the problem lies with the hardware or because i installed a thing called a codec (divx) on february, which i now cant seem to uninstall because error message says i'm not system administrator - even tho i know that i am!..bear with me.....so i tried to do that system restore thing but can't seem to get it to go back to february, (last restore point only goes back bout 3 wks)...okay..so..i think what i wanna ask is (1) how do i know if it is actually a hardware problem or not...(2) can i restore way back in time even if the date isn't listed?....oh and i checked in the bit saying device manager and it said working fine and also went into a 'regedit' bit looking for thing called upper and lower filters (found that on another site) and (3) can you help me, i have read absolutely ever wee thread, well nearly all, in this bit and in the update discussion bit for hours now and the only thing i am sure of is that it isn't a driver problem...i think because i didn't have the option to roll it back...somebody?...anybody? |