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Stupid CD-ROM Drive!

Discussion in 'Whatnots' started by Frog, Aug 15, 2002.

  1. Frog Gems: 12/31
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    Curious if any of you can help me with my problem.

    Once apon a time I would put a CD into my generic CD-ROM 56x drive and it would spin fast and stuff would happen.

    As of yesterday the thing won't read anything. It starts to spin then aborts(sounds something like a roaring car engine) and restarts the process about three times over and then gives up. The LED turns off. Nothing happens. During the whole abort/restart phase I'm treated to a flashing busy icon on the screen.

    Afterwards I click on the drive from My Computer and it says: "Please insert a disk into drive E:" acting like theres nothin' there when there is.

    Anyone have any ideas?
     
    Frog, Aug 15, 2002
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    Try updating its firmware.

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    Does it make a soft thumping or clicking noise after it's aborted spin? I've been having about the same problem with my Creative DXR3 Drive, but only when using CD-Rs.

    [ August 15, 2002, 04:32: Message edited by: Alex ]
     
    Alex, Aug 15, 2002
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    No it just stops spinning then starts again. After a few tries it dies. It was working fine before. Don't know wtf happened. I tried uninstalling the drives and reinstalling them. Didn't do jack.
     
    Frog, Aug 15, 2002
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    Actually, I had this happen with my old computer. My best suggestion: Get a new CD-drive, that or try cleaning your laser. I know a few things that cause the problem, none of which are cheap or easy to fix.
     
    Rastor, Aug 15, 2002
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    I had the same problem with my cd-drive, but it had the problem only with self-created cd's. It had no problem with original cd's. I still don't know what was wrong with that thing.

    And you might wonder if the problem wasn't the CD's? Well, I tried them with a few other cd-drives and they worked perfect.
     
    Mesmero, Aug 15, 2002
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    Frogger:

    I supported my local tax base a while back, and bought a dvdrom drive. I believe the brand name was "Korea", but i'm not sure; that's about the only thing that came up in the bios and windowz dm.

    It did the same thing. And was *very* hot after spinning a cd/dvd for only a brief minute. I used their own 'tweak' program to yank it down to 32x, then to 24x. It helped only slightly; crc32's and no-toc's still were common.

    Finally just gave up the ghost on it, and ordered a Liteon 16x off the net. For about 2/3 the price. No problems from it, at all.

    There's a good chance it's shoddy equipment. Taiwan doesn't test out their memory modules anymore, so why should Korea?

    :1eye:
     
    ejsmith, Aug 15, 2002
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    Not the drivers. The firmware. Think of it as sort of a bios for your cdrom drive. (Or other random device)

    Check it's manufacturers website for that.
     
    Alex, Aug 16, 2002
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    One of the guys I reside with told me last night when I complained about a similar problem that it's because the drive itself is messed up, not the drivers. SO I believe that my next stop is to ribr him to fix it.

    Ara
    (Sniffle, pouch... argh!)
     
    Arabwel, Aug 16, 2002
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    XP? or a defective CD-ROM. If you have a guarantee change the CD-ROM. If not buy a new one :( . If you have XP change to WIN98SE or Linux.
     
    Oblate, Aug 16, 2002
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    You can always try cleaning the CD off too before you go out re-installing drivers and ripping your computer apart :)
     
    Rizzil, Aug 16, 2002
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