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Special Forums Hardware Dell XPS M1330 doesn't detect optical drive Post 303041989 by milhan on Tuesday 10th of December 2019 11:25:45 AM
Old 12-10-2019
Dell XPS M1330 doesn't detect optical drive
I have a Dell XPS M1330 laptop. The OS is Windows 10. I had to replace the motherboard because it was bad. After replacing the motherboard I noticed the optical (DVD/CD) drive is neither detected in BIOS and OS nor making any noise at all. Everything else seems to be working fine. The optical drive was working before I replaced the motherboard. So I removed the optical drive and the connector cable and cleaned the cable and the pins on the optical drive with a toothbrush and put the laptop back and booted. This time I could hear the optical drive making noise right after I boot. When I tried to insert a CD it accepted the CD and I can hear it spinning. However, the DVD/CD drive is still not listed in BIOS nor in the OS. In the BIOS, it says "none" for fixed bay device. The DVD/CD drive is not listed in the boot menu either when I press F12 to select a boot device.

What does this tell you?
 

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pxfw

pxfw(8) 							     pxfw 0.5								   pxfw(8)

NAME

       pxfw - Firmware flashing tool for Plextor CD/DVD devices

SYNOPSIS

       pxfw -l
       pxfw -d DEVICE [-if firmware.bin] [-u] [-f] [-v]
       pxfw -d DEVICE [-e] [-r] [-t] [-v]

DESCRIPTION

       pxfw is the linux firmware flasher for Plextor CD and DVD drives.  Remove any disks before flashing.

FEATURES

       You can flash the firmware of these drives:
       Plextor Premium, Premium-2, PX-712, PX-716, PX-755 and PX-760.

DEVICE

       can be an IDE, SCSI, SATA, USB or FireWire connected optical drive. Not all SATA controller support all Plextor features.

       Linux:
       /dev/hdX: IDE device
       /dev/scdX: Linux 2.4: SATA, SCSI, USB device, or IDE device via ide-scsi emulation
       /dev/srX: Linux 2.6: IDE device via new ATA layer, SCSI or USB device

       OpenBSD/NetBSD:
       /dev/rcdX

       FreeBSD:
       /dev/cd: SCSI device
       /dev/acd: ATA device

       MacOS X:
       /dev/disk:

       win32:
       C:,D:,E:, ... X:,Y:,Z:

OPTIONS

       -l   scan busses for all available CD and DVD devices

       -if  select inputfile. Specify the firmware binary file, which should
	    be written to DEVICE.

       -u   proceed update. When the firmware checksum test has succeeded,
	    write firmware to DEVICE.

       -f   force flashing. Even if DEVICE is not recognized, or firmware.
	    checksum has failed, firmware writing will be forced.
	    Handle with care.

       -e   read EEPROM from DEVICE.

       -r   reboot the device.

       -t   test which opcodes are supported by the device.

       -v   debug.

EXAMPLES

       pxfw -d /dev/hdc -if 755_1.07.bin -u
       writes firmware file 755_1.07.bin into Master Drive on Secondary IDE-Port.

       pxfw -d /dev/sr3 -e -oe file.foo
       reades EEPROM from device /dev/sr3 and writes it to file.foo.

       please report man page improvements to T.Maguin@web.de

Gennady ShultZ Kozlov						  02 April, 2009							   pxfw(8)
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