27-04-2005 18:13									#1
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Allie's CD drive strikes again!

A year ago, it was just not opening up. Now it's not closing. Each time I close it, whether by pressing the button or pushing the tray back in, it stays shut for all of 5 seconds and then opens up again. This is true whether I put in a CD or not.

Does anybody know how I can find what application is using the drive, and then terminate it? I've restarted the computer and closed the drive just as the computer was shutting down. The moment the computer's back on again, the drive continues to exhibit this behavior.

Suggestions? Advice?

I will be getting a new laptop in a few weeks (when my little brother can be arsed to send it) but until then I need my CD drive back!

	27-04-2005 18:26									#2
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Try removing the drive & booting up without it, shut down, reinstall it, and boot up again. See if it continues to act flaky. You could get a new CD drive, they're super cheap these days. Just don't buy it from Radio Shack or anything, get it online.

www.pricewatch.com

	27-04-2005 18:28									#3
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I join the question, since my drive has gone into slow motion or something. It opens and closes real slow.

Is there some diagnostics tool?

	27-04-2005 18:43									#4
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My professional opinion:

Something is wrong. You should get it fixed.

	28-04-2005 02:44									#5
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Any other suggestions? I'll save up the disassembling until there's no other option. Does anybody know how to check if there's any application using my CD drive?

I know I did burn a CD fairly recently, but that normally doesn't cause that sort of problem.

	28-04-2005 03:42									#6
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Right-click "my computer" Select "properties' Select the hardware tab. Click on the "device manager" button. Scroll down to your CD drive (expand "DVD/CD-Rom devices" if necessary) and right-click. Select "uninstall." The drive will uninstall. Then right-click on the computer icon at the top of the chain and select "scan for hardware changes." The CD drive should re-install (and you should not need your driver disk, since the drivers are already on your computer, but have it ready just in case). If that does not solve the problem, check back here and let us know.

	28-04-2005 03:50									#7
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With how much CD drives cost nowadays, it could well be easier to get a new one

	28-04-2005 04:32									#8
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Should be somewhere between $15 and $25...

	28-04-2005 06:53									#9
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Take it out back and shoot it...

	28-04-2005 06:56									#10
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Try downloading the newest drivers for it, though I suspect it's a hardware problem.

	28-04-2005 07:02									#11
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Run msconfig, Spybot Search and Destroy, and Ad-Adware, preferably in safe mode. If you have a virus scanner, use that too.

	29-04-2005 04:27									#12
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UR, thanks. I have run msconfig, Spybot S&D, and Ad-Aware. The CD drive is still malfunctioning, but I'll bet your good advice helped me get rid of lots of other crap nonetheless.

Likewise, Grumbler, I'm going to give your advice a try and see what turfs up. Wish me luck...

If this doesn't work, I may well have to take this little git into the back yard and crush it very tally and mercilessly.

And then get a new one.

	29-04-2005 04:32									#13
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I uninstalled it and the drive STILL won't stay shut!

WTF!

It may be time for me to bring the bitch out

	29-04-2005 07:21									#14
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Nothing a little brute force can't solve, Ali

	29-04-2005 07:56									#15
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allie cove. i thought you left forever.

	29-04-2005 07:58									#16
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<born1986> why the **** isn't my disc drive working
<born1986> i ****ing worked on that essay for three friggin' hours in school
<born1986> i now i cant finish it 'cos my ****in drive ain't working
<Z00ass> you got the right drivers?
<born1986> hell yes
<born1986> it was working fine yesterday
<born1986> why does this **** always happen to me?
<Z00ass> maybe that little clip on the side is i nthe wrong position
<born1986> i havent touched it since school
<born1986> i'm growing impatient
<born1986> ANGRY even
<Z00ass> throw that **** out tha window

. . .

<born1986> OMG i ****in did it!!!
<born1986> ****!!!!!
<Z00ass> it works?
<born1986> no, i threw it out the window
<Z00ass> the disk?
<born1986> NO the whole drive
<born1986> i live on the 6th floor, made a nice *smash*
<Z00ass>
<born1986> **** **** ****
<born1986> THE DISK WAS STILL INSIDE
<born1986> brb

. . .

<born1986> ****
<Z00ass> what? did ya break it?
<born1986> well i couldn't open the drive
<born1986> so i had to pound it against a rock
<Z00ass>
<born1986> quite HARD
<born1986> and you know what?
<born1986> that ****ing disk wasnt even there
<Z00ass> ???
<born1986> i got so mad i threw the remaiders of the drive on to the freeway
<born1986> and when i got back upstairs i foud the disk inside my bag
<Z00ass> lol
<born1986> I NEVER EVEN PUT IT IN THE DRIVE
<born1986> i'm actually cryin right now

. . .

<born1986> wonder if i could make that drive work again
<born1986> brb

	29-04-2005 08:25									#17
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Buggeringsoddingarse****etbucktwunttitbanditpotfec
kerseslutmerkinCDdrive ARGGH!


>.>

<.<

Actually, I didn't leave forever. Things just happened, like a job and stuff.

ALso I'm thinking of changing my username for good. Anybody know how to do that?

	29-04-2005 08:31									#18
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quote: Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia ALso I'm thinking of changing my username for good. Anybody know how to do that?

Send a PM to a mod.

	30-04-2005 06:44									#19
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quote: Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia Actually, I didn't leave forever. Things just happened, like a job and stuff.

My situation too - real reality takes over from the virtual these days. So "once in a blue moon" as they used to say, I drop in for nostalgia's sake.

On the CD-Rom unit, I'm with those recommending a new drive. Even in pricey Oz, the price is down to some AUD$15.

	30-04-2005 08:26									#20
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quote: Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia Any other suggestions? I'll save up the disassembling until there's no other option. Does anybody know how to check if there's any application using my CD drive?

Reset the computer, go into BIOS.
If the drive still displays the non-closing properties, it isn't an application causing the problem.

Oh, and destroy your old one after the new one is working.

	30-04-2005 17:46									#21
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nokey BIOrd typing BI cOp ing pAsting word BI sodding word Right-click Right-click Right-click arse

	30-04-2005 18:11									#22
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Riiiight...

	01-05-2005 06:59									#23
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Sorry - I was without a keyboard fora while and had to type each letter by right clicking and copying.

BIOS sounds good and I'll do that soon, now that I have an F8 key and everything.

	01-05-2005 08:15									#24
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Have you tried closing it by pushing the tray in ?

	01-05-2005 08:17									#25
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Uninstall Linux

Get a real desktop OS

	01-05-2005 09:34									#27
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quote: Originally posted by Ted Striker Get a real desktop OS

What's that? OpenBSD?

	01-05-2005 09:40									#28
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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger What's that? OpenBSD?

	01-05-2005 09:42									#29
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The BSD's are the best web, DNS, mail, and file servers in the world, but I wish they had some nice desktops. (Excluding Mac OSX of course).

There is a new DragonFly BSD release, the goal of the project is to make it a true multinode OS much in the same way the old VAX was. That means like a forever uptime. They even mention WAN clustering, now that would kick azz.

	01-05-2005 10:17									#30
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Wow, there is actually a GUI installer for FreeBSD on the desktop! Unbelievable. Finally, after 10 years. It looks kinda like the RedHat installer:

http://www.pcbsd.org/screenshots.html