CD Drive refuses to open

NiGHTSNiGHTS San Diego Icrontian
edited November 2004 in Hardware
So I put in my Battlefield CD today, and instead of an autoload screen, I was greated with a slow system lockup. I could mess with anything that was open, but my start menu dissapeared along with all my icons. Upon rebooting, the Windows XP Home screen took forever to get though, but managed to figure out what it was doing and started up correctly.

Upon opening "My Computer," I noticed the CD rom drive I have was missing. Two drives that were displayed were ones Daemon Tools and Alcohol created for mounting images. My CD Rom now refuses to open once I push the button, and shows a green light like it is loading the CD, even though it isn't. The drive is not spinning up either. What could be causing this, and can I fix it?

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  • NiGHTSNiGHTS San Diego Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    Well, after getting it to open following 4 consecutive restarts, Windows still can't find my CD drive. I've also noticed it takes progressively longer for BIOS to recognize my IDE drives when POSTing. Once it does, it sits on the SATARaid screen for a moment as it continues to boot up, and then Windows XP takes close to 2 minutes to get though. However the logon screen fires up just like new. Could I have a bad cable?

    Motherboard is an Abit NF7-S v.2
    2 Maxtor HD's a 40Gig Master and 120Gig Slave NOT in Raid
    Barton 2500
    9800Pro
    2x256 XMS 3200s
    480W PS
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    Alright, so I jabbed around in the proverbial dark, sought a needle in a haystack and came up with a solution. It works now.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited October 2004
    ...and the solution was?
  • floppybootstompfloppybootstomp Greenwich New
    edited October 2004
    Aye, what was it? And how come two names seeming to discuss same prob?

    Does Thrax have an alter-ego? That only comes out at nights?

    Reason I ask is I had a similar problem, intermittent non-recognition of IDE devices followed by total failure to see SATA ports. Turned out (after a lot of testing and swapping parts about) to be a four year old Antec 300W PSU gone flakey.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    Disabled the device in the device manager and rebooted.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited October 2004
    hmm. interesting. wonder what made windows act up in the first place... *shrug*
  • ClutchClutch North Carolina New
    edited October 2004
    Geeky1 wrote:
    hmm. interesting. wonder what made windows act up in the first place... *shrug*

    *cough*Microsoft*cough*
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited October 2004
    You know, I don't have nearly the problems with Microsoft's software, including Windows, that *cough*certain people*cough* seem to have... I think it's just PEBKAC error. :p;D
  • NiGHTSNiGHTS San Diego Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    The odd thing was it wasn't the CD rom that I disabled. It was one of the virtual drives that was causing an issue, but once it was removed, both my CD ROM and my 2 virtual drives popped back up, solving the problem. IDE devices are recognized normally, and windows is loading up properly. Not sure why it acted the way it did, but at least its fixed.
  • NiGHTSNiGHTS San Diego Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    The problem is back again, same symptoms as before, except now disabling it in my device manager doesn't work. The problem has evolved apparently...any ideas anyone?
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited October 2004
    This has happened to me on occasion. I forget what I did. Make sure all your cables are tight? Also, if you can see it in Windows, try right-clicking the drive and then Ejecting it that way... Just a shot. This seems to be sorta common, though.
  • NiGHTSNiGHTS San Diego Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    Its very annoying, to say the least. Windows doesn't recognize it in "My Computer," as stated above, so I cannot select an eject option. I've also switched the cables and still no dice.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    Maybe your CDROM is simply dying.
  • NiGHTSNiGHTS San Diego Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    I would hope not, but its what I'm leaning towards right now. I just re-wired everything and its working so far...so we'll see. I would hope it doesn't die though, not even a year old, warranty of mercantability written all over this return.
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