My 'puter sucks!

[6Chris6]

CD Drive doesn't seem to be reading any discs.
I.E. Put a cd in the drive (music or software all original) and i get the green light on the CDRW drive but nothing happens, don't even get the usual whirring sound.
In device manager it says, drive working, no updated drivers avilable I've also tried rolling back drivers and uninstalling drivers but no luck.
Although if i right click on my cdrw drive short-cut and go to properties/general it comes up with:-
"The name 'D:\' specified in the target box is not valid. Make sure the path and file name are corect."

Any help will be much appreciated......Again :brick: :brick:

Good ole PC Company eh!

[duckman]

CD Drive doesn't seem to be reading any discs.
I.E. Put a cd in the drive (music or software all original) and i get the green light on the CDRW drive but nothing happens, don't even get the usual whirring sound.
In device manager it says, drive working, no updated drivers avilable I've also tried rolling back drivers and uninstalling drivers but no luck.
Although if i right click on my cdrw drive short-cut and go to properties/general it comes up with:-
"The name 'D:\' specified in the target box is not valid. Make sure the path and file name are corect."

Any help will be much appreciated......Again :brick: :brick:

Good ole PC Company eh!
Buy an Apple Mac ?? :kick:

[White trash]

Dunnowhatthefuckyou'retalkingabout but that Avitar is a good laugh.

[6Chris6]

Helpful pricks aren't ya :doobey:

[riffer]

I had this problem in one of my computers at home.

Turns out the power lead was stressed by being pulled out and shoved back in again too many times.

Check the power lead by swapping over with the hard drive power lead.

Also check your IDE lead is in properly. Sometimes they can get a bit loose.

Failing that, you could always try restarting ;)

[6Chris6]

I had this problem in one of my computers at home.

Turns out the power lead was stressed by being pulled out and shoved back in again too many times.

Check the power lead by swapping over with the hard drive power lead.

Also check your IDE lead is in properly. Sometimes they can get a bit loose.

Failing that, you could always try restarting ;)

Hmmm. I've never taken my disc drive out so that should be ok.
Never actually opened it up at all, and if i had, it woulda been in the bin a long time ago.
Already tried restarting while playin with drivers.

[Firefight]

Dunnowhatthefuckyou'retalkingabout but that Avitar is a good laugh.


yeah me to WT, but I feel sure computer geek type KBer will know.

F/F

[Hoon]

Sounds like your CD drive has packed it in. How old is your PC?

Good news is that CD drives are only about $20-30 these days.

[6Chris6]

Sounds like your CD drive has packed it in. How old is your PC?

Good news is that CD drives are only about $20-30 these days.

Sweet, shit that is good news,
Cheers Hoon.

[toads]

Sweet, shit that is good news,
Cheers Hoon.

hey chris, make sure when you put another cd rom in the pink/red stripe on the ide cable goes to # 1 pin on the new drive, takes less than 10 minutes to put another drive in, don't piss around with old drives they are too much hassle, it's typical for them to shit themselves in the manner you are describing

[6Chris6]

hey chris, make sure when you put another cd rom in the pink/red stripe on the ide cable goes to # 1 pin on the new drive, takes less than 10 minutes to put another drive in, don't piss around with old drives they are too much hassle, it's typical for them to shit themselves in the manner you are describing

Cool, Thanks Toads :niceone:

[riffer]

Just in case you were wondering Chris, No 1 pin is the one closest to the power input on the CD drive.

The only other thing you have to worry about it setting the drive to either master or slave.

Most drives are set to slave. It's done by a little jumper on the back of the drive, and the documentation usually comes with the new CD drive.

Don't be scared to pull the PC apart Chris. It's way easier to replace a CD in a PC than it is to change plugs on a bike.

It's like when you first start working on your bike. You know stuff-all about it, then as you learn you get more confident until you wonder why you ever thought it was tricky in the first place.

[Wenier]

id check the connections of all the plugs going into the back of the cdrw cus even if ya dont get in there they sometimes manage to get free

[bungbung]

The only other thing you have to worry about it setting the drive to either master or slave.

Most drives are set to slave. It's done by a little jumper on the back of the drive, and the documentation usually comes with the new CD drive.

Most drives are now left on Cable Select, and their position on the grey IDE cable determines their master/slave function.

Chris, just make sure the jumper on your new drive matches the setting on your old drive. There is three options - Master, Slave or Cable Select.

[Antallica]

CDRW today.... rest of it tomorrow.

PC Company is the devil incarnite in the IT industry. Save yourself now.
Oh and if you ever get to the point of having to put it into the shop, just buy a new system. The ongoing cost will end up being the same anyways on that rig.

[Quasievil]

What is becoming of the modern Biker ???? last week I had three bikers including myself wearing full leathers on my lounge florr fixing my computer :mellow:
Go figure, Cajun, Fzerozero and me.
in full motorbike gear we upgraded the ram and then went for a ride.
Do you need protective gear for fixing computers? :whistle:
Which I had taken a pic

[Antallica]

Well you probably won't get much ESD damage wearing full leathers, than you will wearing a cotton outfit I suppose.

Classic though Quasai! :D

[Cajun]

Quasi wanted to take a pick but my yellow leathers wouldn't look good against his case, now on my nice bright yellow case they would look great

[Wonko]

Chris, have you done an remove and reinstall from in Computer management? might solve the problem, otherwise could be time to upgrade.

If you want DVD burners, you can get them for around the 180 inc
DVD reader/CD burner $ 115 inc
CD burners $70 inc

You haven't been listening to cd's with any copy protection on them?? Some can install program's that can mess up cd's ability to read them, even thou music companys say that it doesn't

[6Chris6]

You haven't been listening to cd's with any copy protection on them?? Some can install program's that can mess up cd's ability to read them, even thou music companys say that it doesn't

Eeerrrrr. Yes, that was the last time it worked :blink:

[Wenier]

bloody CD companys i forgot bout that it happen to our one a while ago and a reinstall of the software sorted it.

[geoffm]

bloody CD companys i forgot bout that it happen to our one a while ago and a reinstall of the software sorted it.

Download Alchohol 120% - does a wonderful job of stripping off the copy protection system, so you can copy the cd and actually use what you have paid for.
I won't buy copy protected "cds". Not worth the hassle, and won't work where I want to use them.
Geoff