I have a Toshiba P105-S6114 and I seem to be having two problems:
-I think it's overheating
-The optical drive won't burn DVDs
I installed speedfan a month ago and temps are staying at 55*C when web browsing. It gets up to 70*C when playing a game. I thought speedfan was making a mistake so I installed it on my mom's Sony SZ laptop and temps stayed around 41*C. This laptop is usually on a tablecloth so I thought that was the problem and, when idling, the temps stayed lower on the hardwood desk. When I opened up a game, however, they once again jumped to the high 60's. In addition, the fan is very erratic. It goes on high for 2 seconds and dies down. Upon looking this laptop up, it seems this fan behavior is the norm (although very annoying).
Are these high temps for a laptop?
The optical drive installed is a HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GMA-4082N. In My computer, when empty, it lists itself as a DVD-RAM drive. Has anyone even heard of a DVD-RAM disk?
I went to this site and updated the DVD-RAM driver that came pre-installed in the laptop. It is listed under the Add/Remove programs list. Under the properties for the drive is also a Windows driver; I have checked for updates for it but there are none.
Trying to open a blank disk in windows explorer:
Attempt 1:
CD-R: Error Message:"D:/ is not accessible. Incorrect Function"
DVD+R: Error Message:"D:/ is not accessible. Incorrect Function"
Went to DVD-RAM drive properties and checked the "Enable CD recording on this drive" on the Recording tab.
Attempt 2:
CD-R: Writable CD window opened: I have not tried to burn a CD yet but everything before the actual burn apparently works.
DVD+R: Unwritable window Opened, will not allow files to be added: Error Message: "Windows encountered a problem when trying to copy this file. What do you want Windows to do?" There is a Retry and Cancel button; Retry does nothing. I then manually set the write speed to 16x (the speed listed on the DVD+R) but it also does nothing different.
Any suggestions on getting this drive to burn a DVD+R?
I will say in advance that I may not open this thing up to change the heatsink compound or heatsink fan itself because I have to share it with my sibling. Also in advance, the download page for the DVD-RAM driver update said it would not work if the driver has been uninstalled from the PC so I cannot "wipe the driver off and reinstall" like most people do. And believe me, if I had gotten a choice, I would have built myself a desktop even if I had to share it...
The specs of this laptop can be seen here, on Amazon, and it's product page but the Toshiba page was not working last time I checked.