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CD drive ejects everything i put in

DT4K

DT4K

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Ok, I added a network card and changed my hsf last night. Now any CD i put in my drive, gets ejected 10 seconds later. It's like it's trying to read the disc but can't so it spits it back out. Opening and closing the tray work fine when it's empty.
Yes, I'm going to open the case again and check for loose cables and stuff like that, but has anyone had a drive behave like this before. I was hoping someone would have a quick answer for me.

Thanks
 
I don't know if this helps, but it is possibly a virus. A friend showed me one that caused all CD drives on a system to open and close in an infinite loop. Its not a big leap to opening when it detects a CD. Try a virus scanner.
 
I always find how CD drives do so many funny things. I mean, they can shatter CD's, they can open/close forever, not open at all, not close and when you close they open again, and spin forever no matter what you do making a loud noise.

All of which, I've known people its happened to who asked me for help on it.
 
I doubt it's a virus or bad hardware.
Only because it worked fine yesterday afternoon. Then I opened my case and put in a second NIC, changed heatsinks, connected it to my other pc, and as soon as I put it back together, the CD drive was screwed.
The timing makes me pretty sure it's something I did when the case was open.
I was just hoping someone had the same experience and could tell me exactly how to fix it.
 
Well, after doing a search (I know, i should have searched first), several posts have mentioned the possibility of dust getting in the drive. I hadn't thought of this. It was pretty dusty when I opened the case, so I blew it out. It is very possible that dust could have gotten in the drive and could be keeping it from being able to read the disc.

I'll mess with it tonight and see.
 
Have you tried taking that NIC card out? That could maybe for some odd out of this world reason I don't know be causing it.
 
I don't know how many times I have kicked myself for not following the most important rule of troubleshooting. If you change something and have a problem, change it back and see if you still have a problem. My wife, who knows very little about computers even said "why dont you take the network card out since it worked before you put it in". I of course, thinking i'm so smart said "no, the nic couldn't possibly be causing the problem with the cd drive, it must be a cable i knocked loose or some dust"

After a total of probably 2 hours of checking for loose cables, pulling my cd drive apart and blowing out dust, and various other things, taking the card out fixed the cd problem. And when I tried putting it in a different PCI slot, everything worked fine.

Arrrghh, computers make me crazy. What kind of logic would tell you that having a NIC in one specific PCI slot would cause your CD drive to not stay closed and not read any cd's?

Thanks for the suggestions guys.
 
Originally posted by: Shanti
I don't know how many times I have kicked myself for not following the most important rule of troubleshooting. If you change something and have a problem, change it back and see if you still have a problem. My wife, who knows very little about computers even said "why dont you take the network card out since it worked before you put it in". I of course, thinking i'm so smart said "no, the nic couldn't possibly be causing the problem with the cd drive, it must be a cable i knocked loose or some dust"

After a total of probably 2 hours of checking for loose cables, pulling my cd drive apart and blowing out dust, and various other things, taking the card out fixed the cd problem. And when I tried putting it in a different PCI slot, everything worked fine.

Arrrghh, computers make me crazy. What kind of logic would tell you that having a NIC in one specific PCI slot would cause your CD drive to not stay closed and not read any cd's?

Thanks for the suggestions guys.
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That is weird. What kind of card is it?
Just remember, it's not a bug. It's a feature, and you're just not using it right. 😀

 
It's an Acer with a VIA ethernet chip.
It must be a quirky card.
The weird thing is that when I put it in my machine, win XP picked it up and it worked perfectly other than the side effect of not letting the CD drive work until I switched PCI slots. Maybe it's something wrong with my PCI bus. Still cant see how that would be related to a CD drive running off the IDE port.
Oh well, I'll just chalk it up to the mysteries of technology.
 
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