Re: CD-ROM Drive Automatically Opens by Itself
From: WTC (bcrawfordjr(remove)_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/03/04
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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 21:04:35 -0800
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-- William "Dr. Rob" <DrRob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:A73EDC44-F2C8-4263-B992-23C607166A53@microsoft.com... > I've encountered bizare problem on home PC (HP Pentium IV) running XP Home > Edition with SP2. For some strange reason, my internal CD-ROM R/W drive > starts to open and shut by itself automatically. This happens > intermittently. I could start the PC up and not have a problem for an > hour > or so, and then all of sudden the CD-ROM drive goes int automatic open and > shut mode. Sometimes it will do it repeatedly for 10 min or longer. > Other > times, it will be intermittent. More background facts are: (1) PC is 2 > yrs > old and has always worked fine. CD-ROM drive was never a problem. XP SP2 > installed over a month ago without incident and CD-ROM drive worked fine > after installation. (2) There been no HW or SW installs immediately > before > this problem began. (3) My unsuccessful Fix attempts todate included: > [A] > Reverted back to earlier system version before the problem surfaced [B] > Went > to control panel/system/hardware device manager to uninstall the CD-ROM > then > restarted the PC to have the driver reloaded. [C] Did both uninstalls and > disables of CD-ROM but problem still continue. (Note: problem still > exists > in Safe mode. [D] Virus detection software did not uncover a virus. [E] > I > contacted the HP support center and they have not come up with a fix. > > The CD-ROM is a Philips drive that uses a Microsoft driver. Help! This > is driving me crazy. I may just physically remove the drive unless > someone > comes up with a viable fix. FYI, other than the automatic opening and > closing, the CD-ROM drive works fine, that is, I read files from it and > write > files to a CD inserted in the drive. Help!!! Rob
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