Problems with Cd drives.

[Ford]

this is going to sound odd, but i havent had to use my cd drives since the power outage, and i just noticed, that one of them is completely dead, and one will take in and spit out cds but isnt being detected by the computer. i've tried rebooting, shutting down, shutting down then plugging/replugging. i dont know what else to do.

can anyone help at all?

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<Dormouse> there are very few things quite as comforting as smelling like a close friend.

We are only human, perfect in our imperfections. - Erin amie du Dor

<Dormouse> it's really cute in the way that a sherman tank with a fuzzy steering wheel is cute

[Darth Evad]

Try going into your BIOS and detecting the CDROM's in there. If your battery is running low or dead it may have 'undetected' them.

Is there an error of any kind coming up?


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"First off here's what you do to me
You get rough, attack my self esteem
It's not much, but it's the best I've got
And I thought you saw the good in everyone"
Sloan

[Emon]

Try setting the channels your CD drives are on to autodetect, if they aren't already. If you don't know which are, set them all.

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Bassoon, n. A brazen instrument into which a fool blows out his brains.

[Ford]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Darth Evad:
Try going into your BIOS and detecting the CDROM's in there. If your battery is running low or dead it may have 'undetected' them.

Is there an error of any kind coming up?


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battery?

no no errors. just no CD drives.

i have done everything you guys told me to do. nothing has worked. im going to try one last thing, and then i think it'll be time for new CD drives.



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&lt;Dormouse&gt; there are very few things quite as comforting as smelling like a close friend.

We are only human, perfect in our imperfections. - Erin amie du Dor

&lt;Dormouse&gt; it's really cute in the way that a sherman tank with a fuzzy steering wheel is cute

[Darth Evad]

No. Wait. Have you recently installed and uninstalled a burning program?
I had a problem when i tried roxio and it put a registry entry in my registry so that when i uninstalled it my drives were inoperable.

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"First off here's what you do to me
You get rough, attack my self esteem
It's not much, but it's the best I've got
And I thought you saw the good in everyone"
Sloan

[Ford]

I fixed it. turns out the IDE cable needed replaced. now i dont have to buy a new cd burner! yay!


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&lt;Dormouse&gt; there are very few things quite as comforting as smelling like a close friend.

We are only human, perfect in our imperfections. - Erin amie du Dor

&lt;Dormouse&gt; it's really cute in the way that a sherman tank with a fuzzy steering wheel is cute