confirm death

[magicslax]

likely cd rom drive death, want confirmation:

bios and OS recognise the drive for what it is (48x atapi)

cannot boot from the drive on *any* system and cannot read *any* disks from the drive in OS. That means it's dead, right? like, dead?

 

[Sundog]

Try a different cable and on a different channel. If that produces the same results, start playing TAPS.

 

[magicslax]

i already tried the cable/ channel deally (see, the any system part of my post, eh?)

TAPS?

 

[Sundog]

Start playing taps. (A person with a coronet plays taps during a military funeral).

 

[magicslax]

well then, i get the joke now. funny indeed. I figured as much.

 

[magicslax]

bump. anybody with a second opinion? (i know this is unlikely, but i'm a sucker for wishful thinking)

 

[Grumpy1]

If it spins up try a cleaning disk.

The Grump

 

[Evadman]

hehe, Time for funny cd-rom storry because I need sleep. ( I know that makes no sense but I don't care. )

Here is the luckyest Cd-rom in history. (maybe) I had a friend who I built a computer for. about 2 weeks after, he tried to rip a cd to Mp3's. It was his buddies CD. He called me a few minutres later saying that his cd would not eject. So I go over, and take out the Cd-rom and shake it. It sounds like he filled it with sand. I gave him another Cd-rom, and took the bad one home. I took it apart ( as It would cost more to ship it back than buy another one ) and found no pieces bigegr than about a inch by an inch. most were little flakes. I cleaned it all out, and put it back together not expecting anything. Low and behold it actually worked. I still have it on a shelf.

 

[Evadman]

oh ya, and if anyone cares, it was made by a no name company called top-g

 

[Sundog]

<< most were little flakes >>


Flakes of what? Soap, plastic, BARK???


Don't leave us hang'in like this. 🙁

 

[magicslax]

I't does spin up. Cleaning disk you say?

 

[yaethom]

He meant flakes of the actual CD itself.
I had a CD-ROM once that did the same.

I think the name is quite funny, &quot;Top-G&quot; they really pulled the highest G-forces than any other cdrom out there.

For my cdrom, I was lucky not to get gutted by my cd....
I was in the middle of a game, and it was playing a movie sequence..... Game halted, system makes beep..... I open the cdrom, it takes a while for the drive to respond, and when it opens, the cd was STILL spinning, and on TOP of that it cracked on its way out. The result was a flying piece of the cd hitting my hip, and a scared sh*tless gamer. (not to mention quite pissed)

 

[magicslax]

Holy crap! I wrote a humorous article (read: made up) at franksalim.com about &quot;video games killing people&quot; in which a quake cd came out of a slot drive and decapitated a gamer. I suppose life immitates art.....although your experience probably happened first.

 

[yaethom]

oh and btw....

The cdrom drive was a 52X made by Acer.

(not too &quot;no-namish&quot; like Top-G, suprisingly)
And i tossed the cdrom, i think it was gonna try at me again if I left it in my comp.

😀

 

[magicslax]

ok. last shot at this: before I run out and buy a cleaning disk, does that have a reasonable chance of working given the symptoms?

 

[Evadman]

yes, magicslax, a cleaning disk is a good idea. I have used one, and it seems to work sometimes.

And it was flakes of the CD that were in the drive. Cornflakes would have annoyed me 😉