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Hey all..can't seem to get my cd rom open. It is functioning properly but
seems stuck. I tried to stick a pin the hole in front but it won't pop it open. It always responds kind of slowly. I have two sata hard drives in a raid 0 config. I have my cd drive plugged into ide 1. Would this have something to do with the slow reaction? Any help would be appreciated. Can't switch my games since I can't get the drive open. DC |
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On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 18:26:12 GMT, "David Ciemny"
wrote: Hey all..can't seem to get my cd rom open. It is functioning properly but seems stuck. I tried to stick a pin the hole in front but it won't pop it open. It always responds kind of slowly. I have two sata hard drives in a raid 0 config. I have my cd drive plugged into ide 1. Would this have something to do with the slow reaction? Any help would be appreciated. Can't switch my games since I can't get the drive open. DC First, eliminate the OS from the situation, by entering the BIOS, booting to DOS, or just being quick about it, trying to eject the tray before booting to the OS. You might also unplug the IDE cable, it is not needed for the drive to respond to the front eject button. Some drives have an oddity, that there's a hole for manual eject lever, but the lever is actually in a different location. In such a case you may need to remove the drive, then if the tray has the faceplate mounted to it, flex the middle of the bottom of that tray faceplate and lift upwards to remove it (carefully else you may break it) then you can remove the entire faceplate for better access to the release lever. It could be a mechanical failure of the tray mechanism or electronic failure (assuming it still won't eject outside of the OS. |
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thanks kony..going into the bios worked. Next ? would be what causes the
delay or non response from the drive if it would not be mechanical. Burning software or something else causing problems? Thanks... DC "kony" wrote in message ... On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 18:26:12 GMT, "David Ciemny" wrote: Hey all..can't seem to get my cd rom open. It is functioning properly but seems stuck. I tried to stick a pin the hole in front but it won't pop it open. It always responds kind of slowly. I have two sata hard drives in a raid 0 config. I have my cd drive plugged into ide 1. Would this have something to do with the slow reaction? Any help would be appreciated. Can't switch my games since I can't get the drive open. DC First, eliminate the OS from the situation, by entering the BIOS, booting to DOS, or just being quick about it, trying to eject the tray before booting to the OS. You might also unplug the IDE cable, it is not needed for the drive to respond to the front eject button. Some drives have an oddity, that there's a hole for manual eject lever, but the lever is actually in a different location. In such a case you may need to remove the drive, then if the tray has the faceplate mounted to it, flex the middle of the bottom of that tray faceplate and lift upwards to remove it (carefully else you may break it) then you can remove the entire faceplate for better access to the release lever. It could be a mechanical failure of the tray mechanism or electronic failure (assuming it still won't eject outside of the OS. |
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On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 23:58:56 GMT, "David Ciemny"
wrote: thanks kony..going into the bios worked. Next ? would be what causes the delay or non response from the drive if it would not be mechanical. Burning software or something else causing problems? Thanks... DC Burning software can do that, for example installing a packet-writing software but not having it's tray app loading at boot... not sure how your system is configured, nor the software, but assuming it's only in (whichever OS), there's where all changes are needed. |
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