CD ROM and CDRW Help


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Alright.. well.. A couple days ago.. i was experiencing a few troubles with my CD ROM drive.. it wouldnt open sometimes, and none of the cds i put in it wouldnt work. it would juss sit there trying to find the cd. Now today, i tried for an hour to open the CDROM drive and it wouldnt open till i had to pry it open. and now the no cds will work no matter what. Also today, the same thing happened to my CDRW drive, itll open and burn and all that stuff, but it wont read the disc if i put one in. anyone have any ideas?

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heh.. i have a feeling the CD ROM is dying, but thats cuz its 4 or 5 years old, but my cdrw drive is only like 2 years old.. and i dunno if they open up before windows loads, they did before, ill have to try it when i reboot.

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haha i MEANT the CDRW drive is fine for burning, but if i put .. say.. Medal of Honor in the drive, to play it, it would read it.. it will act like nothing is there.

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Hi Tux, how do you have your drives set up Master/slave IDE 0/1 etc?

I had a similar problem on my older PC where it would write cd's but wouldn't read them, If I logged out and back in it would work for a short while. I had 2 hard drives and 2 cd drives (1 cdrw), they was set up 2HDD on IDE 0 and 2 CD drives on IDE 1 I changed it to 1hdd and cd drive on each IDE channel (hdd mast, cd rom slave). Another thing to check is the jumpers, make sure that there are no conflicts like both drives set to master on the same IDE channel.

let me know if this helps.

Mike

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