DVD eject button not working!

[Lundmark]

Hello,

When pressing the eject button located next to the optical drive on my A197VP, nothing happens. The onscreen display shows "EJECT" as it should, but the drive never pops out. In order to get the drive to open, I have to push the little button on the sled or use Windows to eject it.

How can I fix this bug?

[kee-lo_]

Install the Hotkey Utility from your rrecovery DVD or from www.vaio-link.com

[Lundmark]

Have done it. I reinstalled the Utils.exe package, but without results. =( The thing is, as aforementioned, that the driver works somewhat seeing that it detects button presses - it only doesn't respond with any action to them.

[kee-lo_]

Did you try the Sony Shared Libraries.

[Lundmark]

Sorry to be such a pain, but what is that?

[kee-lo_]

It's a group of DLLs written by Sony.
www.vaio-link.com has them.

[Lundmark]

I couldn't find the library on Vaio-Link so I googled a bit and found it. However, it still doesn't work. As said, pushing the button pops up the OSD, so does pressing Fn+E, but the drive simply won't eject.

It's very unlikely to be a hardware issue, seeing that the button responds with an OSD message, but I still can't seem to solve it.

[kee-lo_]

Normally using both should get your eject key working...

[Lundmark]

I've mistakenly managed to solve the problem.

It had to do with a piece of software called Daemon-Tools. It's an application that allows you to mount a CD image on a virtual CD-ROM drive.

This particular program had, for some reason, replaced the DVD-RW writer's drive letter (E:) and named it F: instead. So, basically, pushing the eject button would, at least in theory, demount the CD image from the software instead of ejecting the optical drive.

I have fixed this by assigning the correct drive letters to the different devices. Really easy - only problem was to figure out what was causing the erratic behaviour. Now I have solved it and I hope this can assist other users with similar problems.

As a last note though, I'd like to point out that it would be much cleverer to implement a feature that checks for the drive itself and not just the default drive letter E:. This would help users that have more than two disk partitions, with one of them being named E:. This way, users with several virtual drives or hard drive partitions may assign any drive letter they wish without having to worry about their optical drive not opening.

[kee-lo_]

ROFL, thats pretty cool that you can use the key to dsimount a virtual CD.
But not very handy at all if you want to use the drive!

Glad it's all sorted.