CD Drive Dead?

keto

Had my P4 system down for a couple weeks while I redid all the H2O hoses in my (very) spare time. Finally plugged it all back in today, everything seems to work fine plus I gained several degrees C of cooling by eliminating a couple of kinked hoses. Fire up F@H. Just out of curiosity, hit the eject button on the CD to see if I'd left a disc in - no response. No big deal, power down and check all connections ahhhhhh the IDE cable seemed a little loose. Fire back up, DEL into bios - still no CD. Hrrrrm... OK maybe it's not getting power. Unplug molex from CD, plug in a fan I had handy, fire unit up again, fan spins and nearly draws blood, should have left it on the desk.:eek3: OK, checked jumper on CD, is CS which should be fine and, after all, this drive worked for the previous 6 months on that setting. Plugged power molex back into drive, back into bios & attempt to force - find the drive, no luck. Changed IDE cable from IDE 1 to IDE 2 (HD's in RAID array on IDE 3 & 4), still no luck.

I haven't yet pulled the drive & tested another, nor have I tried changing IDE cables yet. Beyond that, am I missing anything?

I figger it's a dead CD grrrrrr don't wanna have to paint another drive face for this case but doubt I could find the exact same drive again.

WuGgaRoO

sounds like sumthing that happened to me..maybe not enough power...try it in a different comp?

Clutch

The only other option is to switch out the drive, and change the cable really. Try that and then let us know what is going on.

CaffeineMe

Any LED on drive? I had one that wouldn't spin CD's up, but had LED's and was detected by the BIOS. I opened up the CD drive, turned the worm gear a few times, reassembled and the drive started working perfectly. Might need a little "percussive maintenance"!