May 25, 200719 yr I little background:My wife has a Dell pc from 2003....(about 4 yrs old this month)It has two cd drives- a std CD drive, and a CDRW drive on the bottom. Today when I tried to open the bottom one with the button on the drive it would not open. It made two clicking sounds like it wanted to open but did not. I turned off power and used a paper clip to manually pop it open - took out the CD in it. Turned it back on. Without a CD in it the CDRW drive will open and close no problem.With a CD it will not open - period. Same two clicking sounds then the read light flashes for a few seconds.What gives? Time for a new drive? I can get a cheap DVD burner off newegg for 36 bucks with shipping...Lite On DVD 16x | My Liveries | FAA ZMP | PPL ASEL | | Windows 11 | MSI Z690 Tomahawk | 12700K 4.7GHz | MSI RTX 4080 | 64GB 6000 MHz DDR5 | 500GB Samsung 860 Evo SSD | 2x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 | EVGA 850W Gold | Corsair 5000X | HP G2 (VR) / LG 27" 1440p |
May 25, 200719 yr Ryan,Did you try a different CD or are you just in the market for another drive? :D :D Regards,Jim KarnNOTHING is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
May 25, 200719 yr Author Yes, it ate my blank CDR as well..hahaLike i said, without a CD in the drive it operates fine. | My Liveries | FAA ZMP | PPL ASEL | | Windows 11 | MSI Z690 Tomahawk | 12700K 4.7GHz | MSI RTX 4080 | 64GB 6000 MHz DDR5 | 500GB Samsung 860 Evo SSD | 2x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 | EVGA 850W Gold | Corsair 5000X | HP G2 (VR) / LG 27" 1440p |
May 25, 200719 yr Since it's of no use to have a drive that doesn't work with the media inserted, and prices being where they are, I see no reason to put off the inevitable.Use of the wife's credit card would make the purchase a really sweet deal :D :D :DRegards,Jim KarnNOTHING is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
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