Need PC Help!

[flickme]

Im having a bit of a problem with my CD drive. It wont read the disks. I put a disk in and nothin happens. The disk doenst show up under my computer, and it doesnt automatically start up. Maybe i need to turn auto run on or something. I went out of town this weekend and it worked fine before i left. The computer was turned on all weekend by mistake. I checked all the connections, and even tried troubleshooting the driver. Pleas help me with any info you can. Thanks.

[Fintin]

tell it to strighten the feck up....yell at that mother...then hit it....it should work

[Jack Mehoff]

make sure your IDE cable and power cable on your CD rom sit in tight.

[flickme]

Ive done both of those. The yelling and hitting first of course.

[Ratamacue]

How old is the drive?

[Abolith]

take a sniff inside the computer and if you smell burnt electronics......

[Jack Mehoff]

Stick your finger in the CPU fan and see if it's still running.



Seriously, i don't know what's wrong with your CD drive. It could be a number of things from faulty IDE, faulty CD drive, cut on your IDE cable to software issues.

[spectre5]

Run new firmware, take the cd-rom to a repairshop.

[Romulus]

Wouldn't happen to be a Samsung or Toshiba (usually come preinstalled with HP's) cdrom drive would it? I know those bastards had some sort of over heating issues and if they stayed on to long the drive would go to ****. If this is what you are experiencing chances are you'll have to buy another cd-rom, but hell they are only 19.99-30.00 now a days. So unless you are a tight-wad, I'd just get another one.

[Romulus]

take the cd-rom to a repairshop.

And spend 20-30 bucks. Just buy another one.

[Jack Mehoff]

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductdesc.asp?description=27-106-940&DEPA=1

[anonymous individual]

I have the same problem too. I can open my cd rom drive fine but the computer doesn't know I have a cd rom drive.

[Dennis G]

I had the same problem with my old computer about a year ago.

I called the company and they replaced the drive.

[Mark Sman]

Sacrifice an order of crispy chicken to the computer demons. If that doesn't work try sacrificing some beers to them.

[Romulus]

Jack is right! Lite-on is the least expensive and most reliable drives out there.

[flickme]

The computer is a dell, and i got it early 2003 i think. So its not real old. Ill try some of those things. Ill probably just end up gettin a new one.

[Seraphim]

How bout do the simple thing and put in a cd lens cleaner in there.

[Sierra]

your motherboard may be fried. On my old CPU, when CD drive wouldnt work, it turned out the mother board was fried.

[anonymous individual]

But your motherboard still worked?