"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message
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Hi

My PC CD drive has stopped working.

The tray opens & closes OK, but according to My Computer there is nothing
there. Tried various CD's with the same result & tried the apparently
blank CD's in SWMBO's PC and all works fine.

I'm assuming the drive is FUBER so is it just a case of buying a new CD
drive & swapping it over - which I could prolly manage, or is it likely to
be some confounded software glitch?

Advice welcome at numpty level please :-)

Angle grinder is on standby....


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Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk


Is the cd drive recognized by windows?
If a yellow exclamation mark then try deleting driver and reinstalling.
If not recognized by windows then is it recognized by bios?
If so, then looks like windows driver problem, if not the it is likely to be
a hardware problem, either cd or motherboard.
Test by substituting known working cd is a good starting point.

I had a similar issue recently with a laptop recently where the southbridge
chip soldering to the motherboard was dodgy. DVD drive was not recognized
unless I pressed on the laptop case at a particular point during boot. Once
recognized during boot then it continued OK.

Regards
Bruce