I have Packard Bell EasyNote E4710, Model MIT-LYN02, P/N: PB10C00006, S/N: 208001850239, MID: 400335, bought in 2005. The DVD drive (NEC DVD+/-RW ND-6500A) is old and I cannot install a new DVD drive. BIOS (Insyde BIOS SCU 1.11) would not recognize another model and says "Secondary IDE disabled" whatever DVD I install. How can I install a new DVD? Please help. Another question: does anyone know how to contact Packard Bell technical support by e-mail?
Hello my friend i have the solution in sha'allah :) i had the similar problem and Ithe same laptop ..
you should upload the bios your computer is from series packard bell e3
i know that you have problem of bookt through new dvd drives and momery flash
the new version bios solve all of those problems ..you will note the usb boot added individual under the screen of the boot in bios
first step .. you should have the hard drive 'the old that come with laptop who known in the bios because when you start to install the bios it's will ask you to put a empty cd on dvd drive to born it, and the dvd drive should be active in bios to boot through cd you have born to install the new bios
after you born the cd and install the bios
congratulation lol
download the bios from this link
ftp://ftp.download.packardbell.com/NOTEBOOK/EasyNote%20E3%20series/Bios/ENE3BIOS123.exe
You just need to replace your 80 pin data cable or power plug.
Good Luck
SOURCE: the cd or dvd drive wont work on my laptop
your cd or dvd drive has encounted a problem service the drive
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Thank you, guy for comsidering my problem. @ Slaven Soljic: these links don't work. The website doesn't have my model. I tried another website, but I cannot input the S/N. @ Allan Ocenar: Windows recognizes any drive I install, but BIOS doesn't, so I cannot boot from the original Windows CD. @ Mitch Lewis: your suggestion seems most appropriate, but how can I flash the BIOS on the DVD drive I have no idea. Which DVD do you mean - I have tried 10 different brands. The computer BIOS refuses to recognize anything that is not the original DVD NEC-6500A. Probably the technical guys at Packard Bell can help but they are SO INSACCESSIBLE!
Thank you, Shahzad Waseem Akbar for your reply. Can you please add more details: why should I change it? with what cable shall I change the 80 pin data cable - just replace one data cable with another? Which power plug should I change - do you mean the power for the internal DVD drive? What's the reason? Please expand more details, otherwise your suggestions seems plausible. I want to try if I know a bit more. Thank you, anyway.
You welcome back, sure I will do explain more with reasons. First of all the function of data cable is receiving data and acknowledging so if it dead your DVD will give you response at all but if works and external power plug along with datacable slot do not work absolutely your datacable useless. So both of them should work fine to resolve this issue. 80 Pin datacable work fast than 40 pin datacable and hope you will understand better and it will also helpful to you. Good Luck
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