Originally Posted by IceMeister

just a follow up on fixing the tablet. After many hours of working on this problem. I found that the error log had a suggested fix. It was that a cable could have gone bad between the dvd player and mother board. No cable was found and i replaced the drive with one from a computer i had built and all worked well. I do not know if the drive is bad but did not want to take the laptop apart twice. will check the drive at some point.

I did spend a lot of time with microsucks who never ask to check the log file to see what the error was. now at least I know how to do that.

Thanks for all the help

IceMeister