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My mate has got a packard bell easynote lappy, and someone has knackered it, as it the fact the sound device aint working and movies can’t be played on it. Says it aint compatible. Can anyone please tell me what is wrong with it so i can sort it out.
Your help will be most appreciated :D
Im sure PB will be along very soon as he loves these calls for help……… he will include the words fire and throwing in his conclusion :wink:
Hopefully this will follow on from, or prequal some helpful advice though, it normally does :wink: 8)
Whilst I don’t want to disappoint Sharon ….. but as it’s a laptop (and a really cheapo one at that) best thing is to run it over with something heavy like a JCB and …….wait for it ……. claim on the insurance!!!
@oss wrote:
My mate has got a packard bell easynote lappy, and someone has knackered it, as it the fact the sound device aint working and movies can’t be played on it. Says it aint compatible. Can anyone please tell me what is wrong with it so i can sort it out.
Your help will be most appreciated :D
However …………. on a more serious note. the lack of sound might be something relatively easy to fix like maybe a sound driver getting corrupted. It’s unlikely to be a hardware fault as the speakers are built in.
The key to unwrapping this movie issue is to know what Operating System is installed – is it Windows something or other or is it one of the geeky ones like Linux – or God forbid is it an Apple mac?
Lack of compatibility might indicate that it only has a CD drive and youn are trying to play a DVD. It might be that the DVD (if it is one) is say a US encoded one and your software will only accept European ones.
@forumhostpb wrote:
@oss wrote:
My mate has got a packard bell easynote lappy, and someone has knackered it, as it the fact the sound device aint working and movies can’t be played on it. Says it aint compatible. Can anyone please tell me what is wrong with it so i can sort it out.
Your help will be most appreciated :D
However …………. on a more serious note. the lack of sound might be something relatively easy to fix like maybe a sound driver getting corrupted. It’s unlikely to be a hardware fault as the speakers are built in.
The key to unwrapping this movie issue is to know what Operating System is installed – is it Windows something or other or is it one of the geeky ones like Linux – or God forbid is it an Apple mac?
Lack of compatibility might indicate that it only has a CD drive and youn are trying to play a DVD. It might be that the DVD (if it is one) is say a US encoded one and your software will only accept European ones.
RIght it is not the movie as i have tried several, from all regions, and yes it is a dvd player, well it says it on the side of the lappy.
The dvd player is a “slimtype DVDRW SOSW-8525” standard CD-ROM drives, if that helps any Pb
:D
The drive is ST95212A (standard manufacture drives)
(cant believe I forgot the other word………… insurance!!!!)
Hope your mate gets it sorted oss……….. has he some interesting DVD’s he’s dying to watch on it? :wink:
@sharongooner wrote:
(cant believe I forgot the other word………… insurance!!!!)
Hope your mate gets it sorted oss……….. has he some interesting DVD’s he’s dying to watch on it? :wink:
Cheers shaz, he wants to watch some boring tourist movie, Debbie does Dallas i think :roll:
@oss wrote:
@sharongooner wrote:
(cant believe I forgot the other word………… insurance!!!!)
Hope your mate gets it sorted oss……….. has he some interesting DVD’s he’s dying to watch on it? :wink:
Cheers shaz, he wants to watch some boring tourist movie, Debbie does Dallas i think :roll:
Dallas has changed a lot since Debbie did it…………… cant you bring him a bit more up to date than that?!
Well he has a whole series of them, apparently she is well travelled 8)
Got my mates lappy sorted, ended up having to download 6 drivers, looked like it had been gutted. Thanx for everything though :lol:
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