hi guys my story is about :
IBM THINKPAD NOTEBOOK(R50E) (1842-SUU) ITS GOT A (MATSHITA UJ-830S) CD /DVD DRIVE
RECENTLY I HAVE RESTORED IT TO ORIGNAL SETTING EVERY THING IS OK BUT THE ABOVE SAID DRIVE
SOME TIME DVDS ARE READ BY IT ,BUT CDS ARE NOT READ BY IT ,THE DRIVE LIGHT IS ALWAYS BLINKING.AN MOST OF THE TIMES NOTHING IS READ
I GO TO DEVICE MANAGER AND WHEN I CLICK THE ON THT DRIVE TO CHEK THE DRIVER STATUS THE CURSOR FREEZES I GUESS THE WHOLE SYSTEM FREZES & I HAVE TO RESTART THE SYSTEM TO GET MY SYSTEM BACK TO WORK
I WANT TO UPDATE THE FRIMWARE FOR THT BUT NO OTHER WAY TO DO IT AS THIS SYESTEM DOESNT HAVE FLOPPY DRIVE IN IT
ANY SUGGESTION PLEASEHi
First of all. Please don't POST in all capital letters. It's harder to read and in a forum/chat context it is considered the text EQUIVALENT of shouting.

Second of all. It doesn't sound good when you say the drive wont read discs most of the time. This could be a sign the drive is failing. How old is the laptop/cd drive?sorry about the fonts stuff buddy
the discussed notebook was bought in december 2005 and to the besst of my knowledge in this period this laptop was only used for newspaper reading ,haradly one cd was burned through it and rarely this drive was used movie stuff
one more thing i have download a utility from ibm that called pc doctor and has a test for drive chek and this test shows this drive was failed in all kind of test , so i guess it is gone
if any body has a solution kindly let me know appreciateWell,there isn't a firmware update.

Have you tried a optical lens cleaner?get a new drive.Quote from: tommy gusack on October 25, 2007, 11:02:31 AM

get a new drive.