Time to Replace Your CD/DVD Drive

You are working on your laptop and you decide pop a DVD into your laptop. When you pop the DVD all of a sudden you hear this strange noise. You are like ”What is going on here?” You try to pop in the DVD one more time and this strange sound rings in your ear again. Then a still small voice tells you ”It’s time to replace your CD/DVD drive. You need to get a new one.” Then you fire back with another question” What could possibly have caused it to make such a strange noise?” Then the still voice responds saying” Well, it could be a virus or that the drive itself just jammed.” So now that we’re through with the formalities let me show you how to replace your CD/DVD drive.

• First turn off the power on your laptop and pull off the power plug from the bag.. Unscrew the screws holding the case cover of your laptop and open the case of your laptop. You now have access to the screws holding the drive 
• Now locate the CD/DVD drive. Unplug the cable transmitting sound to the sound card and label ti for purposes of reference. Next. Unscrew the four screws in the side of the drive . 
• Then remove the power plug from behind the drive and disconnect the cable for the drive. Keep track of the location of the red wire . In some drives it connects to the power connector and in some drives it is adjacent to the connector. 
• Now that you’ve unscrewed everything, remove the drive jumpers and take note of the settings: You should see Slave Master, and Master Only 
• Now take your new CD/DVD Drive drive and set the jumpers on the back of the drive, similar to that of the old drive. 
• Reconnect the drive cable and align the red wire with the pin on the drive connector. 
• You then connect the power cable and slide the drive into the drive compartment and tighten it with the four screws. Finally plug in the sound cable you disconnected earlier. 
• Close the laptop screws and tighten the sides with the screws you removed earlier. Then reconnect the power cable to the laptop and restart the laptop. 

Well, that’s a wrap on ”Time to Replace Your CD/DVD Drive.” Hopefully you should be able to change you’re your drive so long as you follow the above instructions. So if you’re a laptop owner hoping to learn how to fix your laptop including your CD/DVD drive, Download Laptop Repair Videos.