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Dvd-Rom tray problem.

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Jgtdragon

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I got a Toshiba SCSI Dvd-rom and it reads cds and dvds fine, but I got a problem with the tray. When I pressed the eject button the tray seems to come out fast and hit a bump and retrack back in. I need to hold the tray when it comes out to keep it from moving back in. The tray comes out faster than my plextor writer. Sometime it comes out and stays, but rare. Anything I can do that fix it?

Any help is appreciated.

-jgtdragon
 
I had a similiar problem with a Sony CDU4821 (oem) CD-ROM drive ............. it seemed to operate too fast (opening and closing) and the tray seemed to actually bounced a little when fully open, then would close so fast, and unexpectedly that I scratched several of my cd's (not fully loaded) .... one of them actually was still spinning when the drive opened and that disk was a Win2K os disk!

The Sony was used in several different systems, but was only about 1 1/2 yrs. old and not really abused at all (no games)!
I never really found out just what was causing the problem ................ I flashed to a new mb bios and re-installed the os and it seemed to help some.

The best advise I can offer is to just get rid of the drive, I still don't really trust my other tray-CD-ROM drives as a result of living with the problem Sony for too damn long!
I don't use "Sony" drives anymore and prefer the Pioneer 106S - Slot load DVD-ROM - NO damn tray to deal with!

One thing I never do anymore with a tray drive is to push in the drive by the tray when closing it ......... I always use the button ....... don't want to take a chance on another tray going bad.

Sorry I can offer no help ......... just empathy ......... trash the problem drive!
 
THis is why I love my Caddy drives. No damaged CDs/DVDs. Sounds like there may be a stop broken inside the drive allowing it to hyper extend the tray maybe. Maybe put some sticky stuff on the slides to slow it down like dielectric grease.
 
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