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| Thread ID: 65482 | 2006-01-19 23:16:00 | Trouble with cd drive | sweetkiwigirl (9651) | Press F1 |
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| 422654 | 2006-01-19 23:16:00 | Hi, My daughters computer is running windows 98, we have had problems with her cd drive when we put her games in or any other cd the light flickers for a few moments and then just stops?, the drive isnt reading any of the games or cd's we put in, but on the odd occasion will decide to work for a little while?, none of the cd's are scratched so that problem has been elimanated, and the cd drive was working when tested on another computer, what else could be the problem??, windows finds the cd drive on start up and when we go to the properties of it its there and says its working and has no conflicts e.t.c..........please if anyone knows what the problem could be let me know :) or if you need any more info on it just ask..........Thanks in advance. | sweetkiwigirl (9651) | ||
| 422655 | 2006-01-20 00:03:00 | Any idea of the CD drive manufacturer, or model? Did you try it in another Windows 98 PC, with the same drivers? My quick guess would be a driver problem. |
kingdragonfly (309) | ||
| 422656 | 2006-01-20 00:04:00 | What is the make/model of the CD Drive? What computer Operating System was it tested on when tried in the other computer, and how much Memory (RAM) did that computer have? Can you access the CD ROM drive manually by going into My Computer, Right-Clicking on the Drive and choosing Open or Explore. It could be a possibility that Autorun on the Drive has been turned off. Here's a few things you can try: You could remove/delete the CDROM drive from Device Manager, restart the computer and it will reinstall (just in case of a corrupt driver it might install correctly). You could download the most uptodate driver for it and install that. You could try and enable DMA on the drive if it's not enabled. It's recommended that you have DMA enabled on it. You could rollback the driver in case it was updated and the updated driver doesn't work with it. Check that the BIOS picks up the drive and make sure the settings for it are correct. Those are just a few things you could try doing. Cheers, KK |
Kame (312) | ||
| 422657 | 2006-01-20 01:47:00 | Have you been relying on the system "autodetecting" a CD when it inserted? That setting might have been lost. What happens when you double click on the CD drive's icon in "My Computer"? |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 422658 | 2006-01-20 08:46:00 | When we click on the cd drive through "my computer" it comes up with D is not accessible, the device is not ready....retry/cancel | sweetkiwigirl (9651) | ||
| 422659 | 2006-01-20 09:07:00 | Forget this post. | Elephant (599) | ||
| 422660 | 2006-01-20 21:30:00 | When we click on the cd drive through "my computer" it comes up with D is not accessible, the device is not ready....retry/cancel Is that when you have a CD in the drive?? Try buying a lens cleaner CD, and run that though the drive (they are cheap) and might fix the prob |
WhiteWolf4 (3713) | ||
| 422661 | 2006-01-20 23:18:00 | If you ask around, I'm sure you could find a cheap or free CD drive - I'm sure there are plenty of people like me that keep the old parts that wouldn't be worth selling when we upgrade them. | Greven (91) | ||
| 422662 | 2006-01-21 01:41:00 | We were told that the cause may have been the IDE cable in the back of the cd drive, sob last night I pulled out the cable and it looked quite bent (very bent!!) and replaced it with another we had here from an old computer of hers, when I hooked it all back up at first the cd drive still wouldnt work, but after a few minutes it started working and even this morning when our daughter got on it to play her barbie game that worked in it???, so maybe it could have just been that cbale causing allt his strife?, fingers crossed that it doesnt decide to do it again | sweetkiwigirl (9651) | ||
| 422663 | 2006-06-16 05:14:00 | We were told that the cause may have been the IDE cable in the back of the cd drive, sob last night I pulled out the cable and it looked quite bent (very bent!!) and replaced it with another we had here from an old computer of hers, when I hooked it all back up at first the cd drive still wouldnt work, but after a few minutes it started working and even this morning when our daughter got on it to play her barbie game that worked in it???, so maybe it could have just been that cbale causing allt his strife?, fingers crossed that it doesnt decide to do it again It is also possible that your power supply may be failing. So many things could cause it. Driver issues, power supply needing replacing or even just the drive not working with that computer. I bought 2 identical versions of a CD burner for myself and my folks but only one of them worked on their computer, yet both worked fine on mine. But if it worked fine on someone else computer it isn't the drive. COuld be just age setting in to the computer in general :) |
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