My Sony CD writer (160..) doesn't work. My PC comes up fine. But when
I try to insert a CD in the writer it won't recognize it and most of
the time the CD light would just be on. I have tried several jumper
settings,cd drivers etc. No Luck. At this time I am thinking of buying
a new cd writer but i just want to make sure that there is nothing
wrong with my computer.

Try another connector on the power supply and also another cable. If
the problem persists, you are sure you have the CD drive connected
properly, and the other drives (i.e. hard drives) work properly the
problem almost certainly is the CD drive, not the computer.

Peter

On 24 Mar 2004 18:28:23 -0800, (E-Mail Removed) (pm) wrote:

>My Sony CD writer (160..) doesn't work. My PC comes up fine. But when
>I try to insert a CD in the writer it won't recognize it and most of
>the time the CD light would just be on. I have tried several jumper
>settings,cd drivers etc. No Luck. At this time I am thinking of buying
>a new cd writer but i just want to make sure that there is nothing
>wrong with my computer.