Guest hawaiiankine Posted July 19, 2008 Posted July 19, 2008 after inserting a cd into my drive,it would not play or eject..I removed my disk via one of the many helpful video hints (using a paper clip-by inserting into the access hole and slowly turning the gear-AFTER powering down) I tried to repair it by using system restore,by going back to an earlier date and time ,BUT it wouldn't work.My cd drive can not eject on its own nor does the power light comes on.My dvd drive light does come on,it opens and closes by using the power button,but it does not play on my Windows media player...Everything worked before I put that cd disk in.It also happened to me a while back.I just forgot how I did it...Mahalo (Thank You) for your time.....
Guest Rich Barry Posted July 19, 2008 Posted July 19, 2008 Re: computer does not reognize my optical drives Your CD Drive may not have any power getting to it. That could be due to a defective molex (white)power connector. Or it could have just gone flaky. The Dvd Drive if connected with the CD Drive using the same Ribbon Cable (Data) could be affected by the CD Drive. I would first check CD drive for power and then if no help replace the Ribbon Cable and connect the Dvd Drive only as Master. It's a hardware problem. Not WinXP. "hawaiiankine" <hawaiiankine@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:D31598BB-9C87-45B2-B416-9A01ABA82CBB@microsoft.com... > after inserting a cd into my drive,it would not play or eject..I removed > my > disk via one of the many helpful video hints (using a paper clip-by > inserting > into the access hole and slowly turning the gear-AFTER powering down) I > tried > to repair it by using system restore,by going back to an earlier date and > time ,BUT it wouldn't work.My cd drive can not eject on its own nor does > the > power light comes on.My dvd drive light does come on,it opens and closes > by > using the power button,but it does not play on my Windows media > player...Everything worked before I put that cd disk in.It also happened > to > me a while back.I just forgot how I did it...Mahalo (Thank You) for your > time.....
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