DVD/CD Tray will not eject

[Gumby16]

I have an AOpen 5232 combo DVD/CD-RW drive running on WinXP Pro SP1, an MSI K7N-L m/b with 512 MB DDR 333 Corsair RAM and two hdds. The AOpen is the secondary master with no slaves on that channel. Ocassionally, I will insert a disc, copy something off of it, and then press eject only to find that the drive will not eject the disc. I would blame it on the drive hardware, but I can't hear or feel anything wrong (like a bad gear).

Is there some type of software issue that could be to blame? I can get the CD to eject if I put the computer into sleep mode and then wake it back up. It is also possible to eject by changing the driver WinXP is using. If anyone has any suggestions, please feel free to inform me. If anyone thinks it's more of a hardware problem, I'd like to know so I can RMA the sucker. THANKS!!

Brandon

 

[Robor]

I was working on a computer a few weeks ago that had a flaky CD. Wouldn't boot from it unless it was jumpered as master.

Have you tried playing around with the jumper? Does it detect instantly when the system boots or does it take a while and recognize it? It's either master or cable select now so try switching it and see what happens.

 

[Gumby16]

It does detect instantly and is jumpered as master now. However, I'll try setting it as a slave or as a cable select and see if it prefers that. I had another CDRW a while back that insisted on being a master or else you couldn't use the IDE channel. Thanks for the suggestion.

 

[CraigRT]

sometimes the drive won't open unless it can fully read the CD... and if it's having trouble reading the CD, often it won't eject until it picks it up... so that might be something to consider.

 

[peterwil]

I have the same problem almost every time I write to the RW drive - only solution I have found is to do a user switch or log myself off and on again

Peter

 

[PurePeon]

Are you running Nero? I have had problems with some versions of Nero and cd/dvd player doors not opening.

 

[Ike0069]

I have a CDRW that the drive doesn't always open. I just keep pressing the eject button and it finally opens. If there is no CD in the drive, it will not open at all. I have to use a paper clip to open it. This might be a diferent problem than yours, but mine is the drive. I've just learned to love with it and just always leave a game cd in it.

 

[Bozo Galora]

take off the faceplate and try it to see if its not binding on tray

 

[PurePeon]

try opening and closing the tray while windows is booting up or go into the bios. if it is working fine till you get into windows then u know it's a problem with software and not the hardware.