Hi, my drive worked fine for about 3 years, it is still recgonised in the bios but it just doesn't want to detect any medium. If I put in a blank CD or a burned one the drive just spits it out. Does anyone know whats up, is it dead, or is there hope?
try a new disk (like no scraches), still not working try puting a disk in and restarting the computer with the disk in it. that way it might reconize it. i had the same problem once and this is what i had to do but then i reformated my computer and no problem since.
..when did you last clean inside the machine ? ..if you've changed nothing in the software, as a first step i'd suggest getting the compressor out, with a fine nozzle gun, then blow out all the dust from inside the comp case, off all the boards,and all the ports, take the reader out and do same ..takes about an hour ..if that doesn't work then start playing with the software
hmm. I hav'nt cleaned my case out in a while. I tryed blowning away some of the crap with a key board cleaner, I didn't spray any of the hardware for fear of it breaking just the fan and case but no help. I tryed reinstalling the driver, no luck. I tryed changing the boot order so that the CD drive that is not working is first then the HD but even with a CD(windows XP pro) in the drive, nothing, normal boot. Any other ideas?
