Re: CD ROM won't open...constant LED Blinking

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Bend a metal paper clip and push it into the small hole in the front of your
CDrom drive to mechanically open it to remove the CD. Try carefully washing
the CD to see if it can then be read.
HTH

"Tomolena" <Tomolena@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> This started out of the blue. My CD Rom refuses to open. The green LED for
> the CD and the hard-drive are constantly blinking in unison. Everything
> else
> appears to be working although significantly slower.
>
> I'm assuming that the blinking hard-drive light indicates that the drive
> is
> being repeatedly accessed (thus explaining the slow speed). Device Manager
> tells me all is fine (its not). What's going on?


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