It's the DVD ROM drive on an HP a250. Pressing the eject button causes
the drive activity LED to flash for a few seconds but the tray does
not eject. Heard about most drives of this type having an emergency
release in the form of a pinhole but this drive doesn't seem to have
one. This appears to be one of LiteOn's DVD ROM drives.

In article ,
JazzyJeff wrote:
It's the DVD ROM drive on an HP a250. Pressing the eject button causes
the drive activity LED to flash for a few seconds but the tray does
not eject. Heard about most drives of this type having an emergency
release in the form of a pinhole but this drive doesn't seem to have
one. This appears to be one of LiteOn's DVD ROM drives.

Try ejecting electronically using something like NirCMD.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html

On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:31:49 -0700 (PDT), JazzyJeff wrote:
It's the DVD ROM drive on an HP a250. Pressing the eject button causes
the drive activity LED to flash for a few seconds but the tray does
not eject. Heard about most drives of this type having an emergency
release in the form of a pinhole but this drive doesn't seem to have
one. This appears to be one of LiteOn's DVD ROM drives.

If you're running windoze, it is probably some RIAA malware making sure you
don't do anything naughty like rip dvds.

Get 'wholockme' and see what process is locking it.

On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:20:39 +0000 (UTC), (Mike S.)
wrote:

In article ,
JazzyJeff wrote:
It's the DVD ROM drive on an HP a250. Pressing the eject button causes
the drive activity LED to flash for a few seconds but the tray does
not eject. Heard about most drives of this type having an emergency
release in the form of a pinhole but this drive doesn't seem to have
one. This appears to be one of LiteOn's DVD ROM drives.

Try ejecting electronically using something like NirCMD.
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html

Good idea. There's also Wizmo:
http://www.grc.com/wizmo/wizmo.htm
Run:
wizmo open
wizmo open=E:
Requires DirectX

On the Pavilion A250, the real DVD front panel is hidden behind a
decorative plastic hinged front panel. If you manually pull down the
decorative curved front panel, you should (hopefully) see the eject
hole.

However, the symptoms might be something else. I've seen the
decorative hinged door jam sufficiently to prevent tray ejections.
I've also seen Liteon drives strip out the internal plastic gears, and
exhibit the same symptoms. Same with drives that have the tray
manually shoved in or out of the drive. You might want to tear it
apart, extract the drive, remove the cover, and see if it operates
correctly.

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