Optical drive in laptop reads inverted colors for some reason?

[mildgamer001]

I have an asus k52f-bbr5 laptop, i have used the dvd drive many many times and yesterday it started reading dvds wrong, now they are all in inverted colors and i didnt change any settings, is this an easy fix problem or do i have to go find parts, im not sure of my warrantee on it but i would rather not send it in just to lose all my files and things like that, which has been known to happen occasionally.

 

[yo_yo2400]

Well DVD drives are cheap and easy to replace.
http://images.highspeedbackbone.net/SKUimages/gallery/large/F12-150024-call14-ro.jpg
should just be able to remove the screw right to the right of the top of the CD drive.
Replacements are like 25 bucks.

Hope that helps good luck!

 

[mildgamer001]

well the problem is that i really dont want to open up my laptop. it isnt that i dont trust myself but i need it for school and all my files are on it. and ive seen desktop replacements for like 8 bucks but i need a certain on ethat fits into my laptop. and the asus website doesnt actually have a shopping feature it just advertises, and they only advertize certain products in their lineup.

 

[yo_yo2400]

Well all CD drives use the same form factor. Pull it out and see the model. Google it and buy it.

 

[mildgamer001]

first, not in laptops, companies built the outer shape etc on the optical drives to fit into their laptops correctly, and two, i figured out it isnt my optical drive, its my windows media player, it got corrupted somehow and i dont have permissions on my own comuter because of some stupid crap and so i cant delete the corrupted on e, and i cant download it off microsoft.com because all it says is that it comes with windows 7.

 

[Ubrales]

Do a Win 7 repair.

Can you do a 'System Restore' to a known good previous date?

 

[yo_yo2400]

http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/fileassassin
From malwarebytes its damn cool.

 

[mildgamer001]

Do a Win 7 repair.

Can you do a 'System Restore' to a known good previous date?

nope. didnt come with any repair disks and i still haven't copied one of my own because it takes two disks and i really dont want to take all the time making one, even though i know i should, anyway, i just deleted media player, i will download a new one from somewhere at some point soon so problem solves for the most part.

 

[Ubrales]

nope. didnt come with any repair disks and i still haven't copied one of my own because it takes two disks and i really dont want to take all the time making one, even though i know i should, anyway, i just deleted media player, i will download a new one from somewhere at some point soon so problem solves for the most part.

VLC player may be a good alternative.

 

[mildgamer001]

VLC player may be a good alternative.

been told that a couple times before, ill check it out. thanks. marking thread as solved.

 

[mildgamer001]

Best answer selected by mildgamer001.

 

[Ubrales]

Thank you!