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Posted by kplumm on February 9, 2008, 7:04 am
Please log in for more thread options It's a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo L7300. The manufacturers quote =A3118 for
a dvd writer, but on average replicas cost about =A335, which my local
repairer had suggested also before he couldn't obtain one. So, let me
know. Cheers...
> kplumm wrote:
> > I didn't at first assume this problem was started by a virus but am
> > at
> > least half sure it was now. =A0My CD drive broke down and keyboard went
> > haywire. =A0First the keyboard wouldn't react to h, 4, or 6 being
> > pressed, then whatever I typed it would keep acting as if I was
> > pressing ther Home key too. =A0I tried all that enable DMA stuff with
> > the CD drive, which for a while was playing CDs but not DVDs, then
> > briefly played some DVDs before croaking altogether. =A0It won't read a
> > CD-rom so I can't use my recovery disk. =A0I laboriously copied that
> > onto a flash disk with my dad's Vista computer and have today tried
> > to
> > get things going that way. =A0I've looked at the BIOs, which someone nw
> > tells me can have become messed up by a possible virus (should I be
> > able to access the CD/DVD drive settings using the BIOS? =A0I can't).
> > I
> > have no money to get a professional to do this, and the manufacturers
> > themselves, Fujitsu-Siemens, want about 5 times as much money as any
> > local repairer. =A0There's nowhere I can borrow and external CD drive
> > to
> > use the recovery disk, no floppy on the machine, and somehow I can't
> > format the C drive to get rid of the corrupted Windows, maybe that
> > was
> > one of the brave and intelligent things the virus program-writer
> > brought about. =A0I have been able to get out these jams with Win 95
> > and
> > 98 machines (reinstalling, I mean; they had not been in any situation
> > where a virus could have come into it). =A0The machine takes an odd and
> > impossible to find CD drive, my local repairer drew a blank with his
> > various suppliers.
>
> > I had considered that the problems were entirely mechanical until one
> > System Restore or another changed the situation temporarily (with
> > both
> > the keyboard and CD problems) - until, perhaps, the virus kicked in
> > again.
>
> > I have scarcely been near any risky sites, and certainly not to
> > download anything. =A0I have had no virus protection, just the XP
> > firewalls, which may seem crazy to some, but it had seemed I'd been
> > safe for years, and have seldome taken risks, and thought the XP
> > Firewall should be enough.
>
> > I'm in an i-cafe now, and had left the flash disk's Windows recovery
> > files to do a repair, but I'm not hopeful. =A0An attempt to make a
> > clean
> > install brought me merely to a blue screen error message.
>
> > The long and the short is, how can I get this machine into an out of
> > the box state? =A0It's spec is still pretty good, and it's only 3 years
> > old. =A0Is it cabbaged?
>
> > Thanks for all help.
>
> um make model would be helpful. I bet I have your cd drive.
>
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