- Aug 28, 2001
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Hello,
This problem is frustating. I have a LG CED-8120B 12X CD-RW drive. It works just fine. However, occasionally after burning a few CDs in a row, the drive door will no longer open. Right-clicking on the drive in Explorer and selecting Eject has no effect, nor does the hardware button on the CD-RW face work either. If I reboot, it works fine again and I can burn many more CD-Rs in a row. The fact that rebooting solves the problem indicates that heat is not an issue. Just to see what would happen, when the problem occured I left the CD it had just burned in the drive for 2 days, trying every time I remembered to see if it would eject. It would not. As soon as I rebooted, it ejected the CD.
The CD which gets stuck in the drive (different one every time) is totally accessible. I can get to any file on it, it seems to work just fine. Everything seems to continue to work, there is no indication anywhere that there is a problem. The drive is recognized in Explorer, and in Device Manager. There are no error messages in Event Viewer. I have tried a little utility called CD-Eject when I was searching for a solution to this problem, but it failed to eject the CD as well. I am sure the little emergency hole in the front panel of the CD-RW drive would work, however LG recommends to only use this as a last resort and only when the power is off to the drive. Obviously, once the power is off, with the next reboot I can simply eject the CD without having to use the emergency eject function.
Any ideas? It is frustrating to have to reboot every time a CD will not eject, particularly when I have 10 or more to burn in a row.
I am using :
XP Pro with a large number of SP1 patches
Athlon 1.4
512 MBs DDR-RAM
Abit KG7-Lite motherboard
LG 12X CED-8120B CD-RW drive
Toshiba 8X SD-M1212 DVD drive
Leadtek GeForce 3 Ti 200 128 MB
Quantum Fireball 40 GB drive
Quantum Fireball 18 GB drive
Logitech Cordless Desktop
3COM 905TX 10/100 Ethernet adapter
Sigma Designs Hollywood + DVD accelerator card
Creative Labs SB Live 1024
Texas Instruments IEEE 1394 Host adapter (Firewire)
Netgear RT314 Gateway Router
Motorola SB4100 Surfboard Cable Modem
Epson Stylus Photo 895 printer
Thanks,
Rooster:disgust:
This problem is frustating. I have a LG CED-8120B 12X CD-RW drive. It works just fine. However, occasionally after burning a few CDs in a row, the drive door will no longer open. Right-clicking on the drive in Explorer and selecting Eject has no effect, nor does the hardware button on the CD-RW face work either. If I reboot, it works fine again and I can burn many more CD-Rs in a row. The fact that rebooting solves the problem indicates that heat is not an issue. Just to see what would happen, when the problem occured I left the CD it had just burned in the drive for 2 days, trying every time I remembered to see if it would eject. It would not. As soon as I rebooted, it ejected the CD.
The CD which gets stuck in the drive (different one every time) is totally accessible. I can get to any file on it, it seems to work just fine. Everything seems to continue to work, there is no indication anywhere that there is a problem. The drive is recognized in Explorer, and in Device Manager. There are no error messages in Event Viewer. I have tried a little utility called CD-Eject when I was searching for a solution to this problem, but it failed to eject the CD as well. I am sure the little emergency hole in the front panel of the CD-RW drive would work, however LG recommends to only use this as a last resort and only when the power is off to the drive. Obviously, once the power is off, with the next reboot I can simply eject the CD without having to use the emergency eject function.
Any ideas? It is frustrating to have to reboot every time a CD will not eject, particularly when I have 10 or more to burn in a row.
I am using :
XP Pro with a large number of SP1 patches
Athlon 1.4
512 MBs DDR-RAM
Abit KG7-Lite motherboard
LG 12X CED-8120B CD-RW drive
Toshiba 8X SD-M1212 DVD drive
Leadtek GeForce 3 Ti 200 128 MB
Quantum Fireball 40 GB drive
Quantum Fireball 18 GB drive
Logitech Cordless Desktop
3COM 905TX 10/100 Ethernet adapter
Sigma Designs Hollywood + DVD accelerator card
Creative Labs SB Live 1024
Texas Instruments IEEE 1394 Host adapter (Firewire)
Netgear RT314 Gateway Router
Motorola SB4100 Surfboard Cable Modem
Epson Stylus Photo 895 printer
Thanks,
Rooster:disgust: