On Tuesday 19 August 2003 16:54, Mattia Dongili wrote: > The problem I'm having from a couple of weeks is that the CD-RW/DVD-ROM > combo isn't recognized at boot by the bios (it says I have no device > on ide2). I need to shutdown, remove and insert the CD-RW/DVD from the > bay and it works again like a charm. > > I've been told it could be an electric contact problem since it's a > removable device, I could try to clean all pins... > > > BTW, IIRC (I'm not at home at the moment, but will check then), I have > > the same Vaio model, never upgraded it, and had no problem with it... > > me too, until some days ago... Since I found this bios upgrade and > CD-RW/DVD-ROM is mentioned in the third paragraph (the second dotted > list) I really hoped this could solve my problems without having to > struggle with sony support.
It seems to be about a Windows crash when you hot-plug the cdrom drive... can a native japanese person confirm ? :) Mike
