Upgrading & Fixing Laptops DUMmIES

Chapter 9 Going Round and Around: CD and DVD Drives In This Chapter
Listening for the music of the discs
Bringing together lap ...

Overnight, the quality of music improved almost immeasurably, while the medium itself was nearly impervious to damage. Remember ...

Today, DVDs are beginning to supplant CDs as a medium to deliver huge quantities of data or software. Engineers quickly shrunk D ...

The first CD players for personal computers cost several hundred dollars and required complex SCSI (small computer system interf ...

A CD-R works by generating a high-powered laser beam that physically melts a pit, or darkens the reflective properties of specia ...

That’s the good news, and for some users this is the perfect technology — a huge, fast equivalent to the original floppy disk. T ...

width. If you’ve got a hair on your head to spare, pluck it out and take its measure: It’s about 50 microns wide, or equivalent ...

Speed.................................................................................................... CDs are marketed as be ...

The typical access speed of a 1X drive was about 400 ms with a throughput of 150 kilobytes per second; a modern 52X drive may be ...

The disks are nearly identical in physical dimensions, so I concentrate on the functional differences: CDs record on one side o ...

All data stored on a DVD is encoded in digital 0s and 1s, and a signal intended for display on a computer will work anywhere the ...

price of about $17,000. The original capacity was 3.5GB or 3.95GB, which was later expanded to 4.7GB. The discs, which now cost ...

When a Good CD or DVD Goes Bad ........................................................... CD and DVD drives, of whatever specif ...

Suggested treatment:Keep your workspace clean and avoid working in excessively dusty or dirty places. If dust does enter the dri ...

Check the documentation that comes with your laptop or the maker of the optical drive. (You can find the name of the manufacture ...

adapter. Any corruption, accidental deletions of drivers or applications, and even inappropriate settings or file associations c ...

If you don’t have a drive in a bay, the installation process for a CD or DVD will entail major disassembly of the laptop. You’ll ...

Leave the CD or DVD drive in place and instead purchase an external optical drive that attaches to a high-speed USB 2.0 or FireW ...

Chapter 10 Chapter 10: Tripping the Keyboard Fantastic ............................................................ In This Chap ...

Working the Board ....................................................................................... A keyboard experiences ...