dvd rw quit working....

[RambunctiousAmoeba]

I was playing battlefield 2 earlier today and after I finished playing I wanted to watch a dvd, so when I went to eject the disc it wouldn't eject. I tried pushing the button on the front of the drive as well as going into my computer and telling it to eject through the software. Nothing, the green light on the front of the drive would light up, but nothing would happen. I then went into device manager and it said nothing was wrong. Rebooting didn't help, so I went into device manager and told it to uninstall, I then rebooted, and the drive shows up in my computer just as before, but I still had the same problem. The drive wouldn't eject and it didn't show that any disk was even in there when in fact there was(battlefield 2). The only way I was able to get it to eject was to disconnect the ide cable, power the computer on, and then push the eject button. I have no idea what the problem is. I'm running WinXP SP2 and the drive is a NEC ND-3540A. The strange thing is, I did nothing to the computer between it working and when it stopped, other than play Battlefield 2.

 

[Pardus]

most modern cd-dvd drives have a small hole near the eject button, insert a paper clip in there to manually eject the disc.

 

[superfly27]

maybe you should use mcafee freescan