CD Drive opens and closes by itself

Discussion in 'Storage Devices' started by theguy, Oct 7, 2007.

  1. theguy

    theguy Geek Trainee

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    Hi,

    Suddenly a few days ago my CD drive started opening and closing by itself. The CD drive no longer works. It was scary initially and annoying now.

    I have Dell Dimension 2400, with dual boot - Win XP and FC5. I can say that this problem is not limited to Win XP, as the drive opens and closes even during the boot or when Fedora Core is running.

    I suspect that it happened after I used McAfee anti-virus to scan my computer. I checked the option which looks for 'prank' software that does system crap, like opening CD drives.

    Is there a way, I can troubleshoot this issue and recover my CD drive? If not, is there a way I can disable the CD drive using Boot Menu (BIOS) or by pulling out the power cable for the drive?

    Thanks for any help.

    - tg
     
    theguy, Oct 7, 2007
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  2. jazzedup

    jazzedup Geek Trainee

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    What is the brand of your CD Drive? Is it samsung? I had the same problem on a samsung DVD drive and I know many more people whose samsung drives have become like this. I don't think there is any way to fix this problem. Even after sending the drive back to the manufacturer for fixing it, the problem came back after a month.
     
    jazzedup, Oct 8, 2007
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  3. Ghostman 1

    Ghostman 1 Mega Geek

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    By opening and closing by itself means it is going bad, I would change it or unhook it as soon as possible... I had one doing the same thing, only I left it
    alone and with in that week it burned out my motherboard..
     
    Ghostman 1, Oct 9, 2007
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