http://blog.marko-apfel.de/topics/hardware/Recent content in Hardware on Marko ApfelHugoen-USSun, 14 Oct 2012 17:27:00 +0200http://blog.marko-apfel.de/posts/lenovo-thinkpad-w530-problem-to-activate-the-optical-dvd-drive/Sun, 14 Oct 2012 17:27:00 +0200http://blog.marko-apfel.de/posts/lenovo-thinkpad-w530-problem-to-activate-the-optical-dvd-drive/<h2 id="problem">Problem</h2> <p>Sometimes my notebook shows the optical drive as power off:</p> <p><a href="http://geekswithblogs.net/images/geekswithblogs_net/mapfel/Windows-Live-Writer/Lenovo-Thinkpad-W530-problem-to-activate_10E36/image_2.png"><figure> <img src="http://blog.marko-apfel.de/posts/lenovo-thinkpad-w530-problem-to-activate-the-optical-dvd-drive/image_thumb.png" alt="image" loading="lazy" decoding="async" title="image"><figcaption>image</figcaption></figure></a></p> <p>But the hint there</p> <p><a href="http://geekswithblogs.net/images/geekswithblogs_net/mapfel/Windows-Live-Writer/Lenovo-Thinkpad-W530-problem-to-activate_10E36/image_4.png"><figure> <img src="http://blog.marko-apfel.de/posts/lenovo-thinkpad-w530-problem-to-activate-the-optical-dvd-drive/image_thumb_1.png" alt="image" loading="lazy" decoding="async" title="image"><figcaption>image</figcaption></figure></a></p> <p>is not changing this state.</p> <h2 id="solution">Solution</h2> <p>By looking in the device manager you see the next problem:</p>http://blog.marko-apfel.de/posts/lenovo-thinkpad-w510-crashes-and-hangs-up-often/Sun, 22 May 2011 13:10:00 +0200http://blog.marko-apfel.de/posts/lenovo-thinkpad-w510-crashes-and-hangs-up-often/<p>Now I have my 3rd Lenovo ThinkPad W510 – and with all of them I had problems in stability.</p> <h2 id="first-one-freezing-and-not-able-to-wake-up">First one (freezing and not able to wake up)</h2> <p>The first one from July 2010 sometimes freezes for some seconds till minutes. Mostly it comes back after that time and I could continue my work.</p>