I havea I series, 1400, 2611-452 Laptop. I has a factory installed DVD. I am 
running 98SE.
The DVD works reads CD's fine but will not see a DVD.
Things that I have tried:
Installed XP Pro
Reinstalled 98SE
Purchased a CD with all IBM mods for the 2611 Series.  Worked fine for 
modem, sound, etc.
When I install  DVD player software (3 different kinds) I can never set the 
region.
When I try to play a DVD I get a pop up that says NO Player / No Disk.
I THINK the DVD worked when I got the laptop a few months ago before I tried 
to install XP.

The DVD drive is a Matshita.  Yes, I looked on the web  for a driver and 
didnt find one. Same for IBM and Lenovo.

Any assistance would be appreciated. Please no obvious things like try 
another disk, or different player software.
I'm really stumpted on this one.
I
n System it shows the Matshita drive as installed but the icon in my 
computer indicates it is a CD.

I get no other errors. I have used the drive to install software so I know 
it works for CD's

On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:00:15 GMT, "Ed" <e.meredith@worldnet.att.net>
wrote in <P%4qj.200402$MJ6.82730@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>:

>I havea I series, 1400, 2611-452 Laptop. I has a factory installed DVD. I am 
>running 98SE.
>The DVD works reads CD's fine but will not see a DVD.

Almost certainly the DVD laser has failed, a not uncommon problem, and
the drive needs to be replaced.

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