Hi there, I recently purchased a DVD-RW drive for my laptop...

However, when I have it installed, the MACHINE refuses to boot. At all. It won't EVEN POST.

The machine is an Alienware Area51-m 7700 series, and I have heard rumours online that Alienware MAKE it so you can only install DVD drives that you purchase from them...

A call to Alienware resulted in them "almost" confirming it to me. And they tried to charge me £79-00 for the delivery of a new DVD drive from them...

Well, its been three WEEKS and I still haven't heard or seen anything from them, so they can go bollocks...

My question is this.

Is there a way to bypass that setting? Is that setting contained in the CMOS?

Any HELP will be greatly appreciated...

Kind regards.Proprietary machines (like laptops) sometimes only have proprietary solutions. I would stay after Alienware as they are the only ones that know for sure. Thanks alot.

I will definatly use SLAX to get some of my data back.


Cheers again. I'll let you know how it goes.

Dark Lenne