Re: laptop dvd drive
- From: Barry Watzman <WatzmanNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 00:37:10 GMT
Probably. Laptop optical drives (CD, CD-RW, DVD, DVD burners) have some degree of standardization, but it's not total. The biggest issues are mechanical and involve the bezel. Unfortunately, there is no good answer to this other than trying things, because the bezels are often custom even on known drives. That is, even if you get a drive that was actually used by Dell in that particular model, it will either come with no bezel (door plastics) or the "wrong" bezel/plastics, and these are not interchangeable between different drives, and sometimes not even between different drives made by the same drive maker. Some "generic" bezels will work, others won't. You may also run into several other issues including master/slave jumpering and mounting hole and connector issues (but the mounting holes and connectors are largely standardized).
Eddie wrote:
Have a friend who has a Dell lattitude, cpxh500gt. Has the interchangeable floppy & cd rom, and he was asking if there is a dvd player that would fit this particular model. Has tried ebay with no luck he says, so thought I would ask here. Thought You guys might know where to point him if there is one. Thanks.
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