CD Drive won't work

[cwos]

I had a CD drive that just stopped scanning CD's, it would spin up then stop, so I took it out and put in a different one. It was okay for a while and now it has stopped working as well. This has annoyed me to no end because I have no idea what is causing it, and neither does anyone else, it seems. It was working fine yesterday.

I haven't changed anything recently apart from an audio driver update, I tried system restoring to see if that fixed it and it didn't. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the IDE controller with the first drive that stuffed up and that didn't help. Could there be something wrong with the IDE hardware on the motherboard?

 

[bendixG15]

about all you can do is check the data cable, try another one.
make sure the power conncection is in tight, or try aniother one

heck, its probably time for a new one anyways.......

 

[EpOxY]

it could be a powersupply issue? how old is the computer? how much more powerful is the CD-Rom? how many drives are you using?

i had a similar problem and i just found out that my PSU just couldn't support all the drives.

 

[cwos]

The pc was brand new in 2001, but I put in a new 400watt PSU last month. It is only running a floppy, 1 hard drive and the CD drive so it definitely should not have a power problem. The CD drive is quite old, not sure how old though.

 

[waitman]

What brand of PSU? I saw something like this with a 400 watt powmax...cheap piece of sh!t

 

[daniel49]

probably just the cd player giving up on ya if its 5 years old its served its purpose give it a bale of hay and put it out to pasture.