Re: mysterious problem CD/DVD drives


"Linea Recta" <mccm.vos@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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This is a WAG. Have you gone into Task Manager after rebooting and made
sure Nero wasn't running in the background in some sort of weird hung
state
due to the original error? Maybe if it is, it is stopping other programs
from accessing the CD's. Killing it in Task Manager may solve the
problem,
or may not.

Like I said, it's a WAG but easy to check and likely won't harm anything.


I wouldn't know what WAG stands for,

WAG = "wild ass guess".

but I did have a look in task manager.
There were no programs running.

Your probably looking at the "Applications" tab which will only show the
visible applications running. Look at the "Processes" tab (probably
irrelevant based on the next paragraph).

I also tried booting from a DOS diskette with CD support, but could not
access the DVD burner.
The CD drive however seems to work again in Windows, but playing an audio CD
doesn't sound good (stuttering).
Also had a look in the computer case, but al cables seemed firmly in place.


Almost definitely, this means that the DVD drive has failed.

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