buckdog05 Posted January 7, 2011 Posted January 7, 2011 Hello! My mom is having an issue with her Toshiba Satellite L305-S5907 laptop where sometimes the optical drive only opens and works after she restarts the laptop. It is running Windows 7 Ultimate. The drive appears to work fine after the computer is restarted but seemingly randomly stops working. When I pressed the button on the drive before restarting today, the light flashed on the drive but it did not open, and it did not read a disk when I used a paperclip to open the drive. Soon after restarting about 10 minutes ago, the drive worked but when I just tested it again, it did not work. Do you have any idea what could be causing this issue?Thanks!
Tripredacus Posted January 7, 2011 Posted January 7, 2011 It could be that the drive is going. Does it do this both when on Battery and when Plugged-In?
Ponch Posted January 11, 2011 Posted January 11, 2011 It sounds 99% hardware problem.Keep the computer on Bios screen (press F2 or Esc at startup) for 1/2 hour, then push the button. If it doesn't open, it's a 100% hardware problem (most probably power related). Maybe it's still under warranty?
buckdog05 Posted January 11, 2011 Author Posted January 11, 2011 Thank you very much for your help.The laptop doesn't seem to act any differently when it's plugged in or on battery, but when I tried unplugging it I think the drive was also working when it was plugged in.I might try seeing if the drive works after waiting 30 minutes at the BIOS screen, thanks!
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