07-12-2003 02:26									#1
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I have a CD rewritable unit on my PC (installed with the help of you good people) but lately this strange thing happens.

When I press the button to open the CD/RW all it does is a bang, I hear something like a thread moving and that's it. It doesn't open. I can keep pressing the button for all eternity it won't open. The only scientific approach is to take a thin papercutter and push it on the side. Then sometime in the 30th press of the button it might open.

However, each and everytime there's a CD in it and I click on the InCD icon to open it or I have a audio CD and I click on the "eject" button of media player it always opens.

Any ideas on what might be causing this?

At first I thought it might be that the "rope" inside it is cut or that it might bang the front on some corner and gets stuck. But if either of those were the case, then it wouldn't open each and everytime there's a CD in it and I simply click on InCD or the media player eject button.

Can it be a power supply problem with the hardware (real) button which is ON the CD/RW?

	07-12-2003 03:29									#2
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you want me to bump this, or will you?

	07-12-2003 03:31									#3
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It was too soon it wasn't off the page but thanks

	07-12-2003 05:33									#4
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again?

	07-12-2003 05:38									#5
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thanks you're too kind

	07-12-2003 05:49									#6
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Your problem sounds mechanical. Isn't your CD/RW covered by a guarantee?

	07-12-2003 05:53									#7
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Isn't that Karaiskakis with an electric guitar?

	07-12-2003 05:56									#8
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Yes he is

I dont know about the guarantee. It sounds too much trouble dismounting it and then get it there not having it fixed and then reinstalling it, if i'm going to take it out i might as well buy another one. its a dirt cheap one.

	07-12-2003 06:00									#9
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from plaisio 36.000 drachmas. it is at least 1,5 years old IIRC. doesnt even say which brand it is on the front.i think the guarantees for that stuff usually lasts 1 year? the problem started just a couple of weeks ago


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Last edited by Bereta_Eder on 07-12-2003 at 06:06

	07-12-2003 06:15									#10
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My new TEAC 52x CD/R just cost me 50 Euro, from Plaisio. And it's much better than my 1,5 year old Plextor 40x CD-R that cost 150 Euro.

	07-12-2003 06:18									#11
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only 50? the prices have fallen a lot then
anyway if this is so and the papercutter approach doesnt work anymore or i get fed up i might go get one as well. thanks for telling me

	07-12-2003 06:32									#12
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If your papercutter approach won't work anymore, why don't you try a crowbar? (koinws lostari?)

	07-12-2003 06:41									#13
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den xwraei

to antikeimeno prepei na einai lepto (kai an8ektiko)

kopidi einai kai kapoia stigmi 8a mou spasei..

	07-12-2003 06:54									#14
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To lostari einai gia na spaseis to drive gia na pareis pisw to CD sou...

	07-12-2003 07:05									#15
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otan exo meso to CD PANTA anoigei, auto einai to gamoto tis istorias...! ara den prepei na exei kanena sobaro mixaniko provlima. kai malista anoigei apo software entoli teleios (alla mono me to CD mesa)

	07-12-2003 15:38									#16
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Hey hey, no talking in strange foreign languages

Anyway, the problem seems to be mechanical. If the tray opens flawlessly with a CD inside, that seems to mean that the tray is bent slightly upwards, which causes it to jam against the top edge of the opening. When you have a CD inside, the weight is enough to push it downwards enough so the tray doesn't get stuck.

	08-12-2003 04:07									#17
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The CD case is indeed slightly upwards but by a mere centimeter or so. Never realized the concept of the CD adding the necessairy weight to balance the exit tray to the correct level. Thank you! I'll be getting my screwdriver and try to make the CD case absolutely vertical, if I can. Strange that this problem only appeared now though... for a year and more it was working with no problems...

it cant be that simple? Is the CD's weight significant enough to push the exit tray down and why is this happening now
and not before, the CD/RW was always a cm titted up
anyway thanks I'll try it

	08-12-2003 04:18									#18
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A cm is waaay too much, do you mean mm?

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I've done preemptive tests namely putting an audio CD so the INCD wotn hijack the manual exit command, and the CD opened with the hardware button each and everytime, you were absolutely right Urban Ranger, thank you very much

	08-12-2003 04:21									#20
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quote: Originally posted by axi A cm is waaay too much, do you mean mm?

more than a mm less than a cm, I dont have a ruler handy .. hmm half a centimeter or less maybe. it coulnt be fitted any other way plus it worked nicely so far so i didnt care.
I guess Illhave to use raw force to get the CD/RW into complete vertical position, bend some metals, because "naturally" (as they are now) they are aligned with this slight line upwards

	08-12-2003 04:26									#21
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the right edge is the uptitted one, the left side is docile

	08-12-2003 05:55									#22
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quote: Originally posted by paiktis22 otan exo meso to CD PANTA anoigei, auto einai to gamoto tis istorias...! ara den prepei na exei kanena sobaro mixaniko provlima. kai malista anoigei apo software entoli teleios (alla mono me to CD mesa)

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