CD Burner is....BURNT??

[Bluto]

Good day all.......

I have an old WIN 98 system that's been working well actually...stable and all that. I have 2 HD's in it and a CD ROM and about a year ago, or so I put a CDRW in it (AOpen).

Lately when I go to burn a few CD's....nothing sees the device. I can't access it thru explorer, device manager says it's working properly, and even the eject button on the device itself won't work.

When I boot the computer, I can see that it's alive. THe eject button works, the light's on and so on. But as soon as the desktop is fully loaded and set, and I go to access the drive, it's as tho it drops out.

I've looked in the BIOS for some setting or clue, but there's nothing. I don't think it's the drive itself, but not sure. I thought I'd ask this in the hardware section here, but it's possible that it's not, but thought it worth a shot here first.

Anyone ever run into this or know what might be the culprit?

Thanks!!

bluto-

 

[liquidtech]

Did you check your jumpers? If you have it on the secondary IDE channel by itself make sure you have it on master. Always remember to put all the HDs on theyre own bus and the CD roms on their own bus too. Dont mix and match. If you have your jumpers ok try removing the device from device manager then restarting and allowing windows to detect it again. If you suspect that it may something physically wrong with the burner first check that you have a good power supply (by testing it with a multi meter or otherwise) and that you have a good IDE cable (test it out with another CD-rom or HD).

 

[AndrewNF]

As well, check to make sure the cables are firmly attached at both ends, it may have wiggled loose.