Re: CD drive won't stay open - closes on its' own

Hello RC, thanks for the quick response, but I'm not following. Doesn't
autoplay only kick in once you put the CD or DVD on the tray and close the
drawer, then Windows looks what's on the CD/DVD? What I'm saying if I open
the CD drawer (either of them), then don't put a CD or even touch it in any
way, that the drawer then closes again on its' own. Can autoplay be causing
this?

Thanks
James

"R. C. White" <rc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi, James.

Have you checked the Autoplay settings for those drives? It's been so
long since I installed Vista that I don't recall the default settings, but
they may be trying to start a program or movie.

RC
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Greetings, running Vista Home Premium 64-bit on a Dell system, has 2
optical drives (Blu ray burner, DVD burner). If I open one or both
drives, moments later they will close on their own. This only happens
when Windows is loaded (that is if I just boot to the BIOS screen and
open the drives, they stay open), so Windows must be doing something
that's causing the drives to close on their own?

Note this is a fresh install of Vista, for various reasons we had to wipe
the system and re-install Vista and the Dell drivers from scratch,
there's no other updates (including MS Updates) applied - the Vista
version is SP1 already though.

Any ideas?

Thanks
James



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