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The latitide e5400 tag covers discussions about the Dell Latitude E5400 laptop, including hardware issues such as a DVD drive disappearing after driver installations. Users report problems with chipset, SATA, and sound drivers causing the optical drive to become undetected in BIOS, requiring power cycling to restore functionality. Troubleshooting steps include installing drivers from a local copy rather than the Dell driver CD. The tag also references related models like the D200. These posts focus on Windows driver compatibility and hardware troubleshooting for this specific Dell laptop model.
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    Windows 7 DVD drive disappears after installing various drivers

    This was a weird one. I did a clean install of RC1. I used my Dell driver CD to reinstall drivers. After installing the sound, chipset, and SATA drivers the DVD drive would disappear at the end of each installation. I rebooted and BIOS did not detect it. I had to power off at the end of each...
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    • audio drivers bios chipset clean install dell driver conflicts drivers dvd drive firmware hardware issues installation bug latitide e5400 maintenance reboot sata troubleshooting tsstcorp
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    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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