Lite On CDRom not reading CDs

[Bob H]

Hi, I've been out to a freinds machine who has winXP loaded on it and he
says that since he recently put that on, the CDROM drive does not read CDs
I have looked as far as I can, but as it is detected ok by WinXP and
shows up in Device Mangler, and am lost as to what to do now apart from
downloading drivers for this make of CDROM.

Ay ideas please? Is it knackered now?

Thanks

 

[George Hester]

Make sure you are trying a Retail CD-ROM and not a CDR. Boot with a Retail CD-ROM in the drive. Then look in the Event Viewer and tell us any CD-ROM drive errors if at all. We need the EventID.

 

[Guest]

I am having what appears to be the same problem. I have two CD players, one a
recorder and one strictly a player. If I put a commercial cd or blank one in
the player, nothing happens, even the EXPLORER does not see anything in it.
The CD recorder works fine but the player is invisible and pretty useless.
The drive is detected as being there by my copy program (NERO) but it cannot
start or read the drive.

Does it sound like it is time for a new one ?

TK

 

[Guest]

I am having what appears to be the same problem. I have two CD players,one a
recorder and one strictly a player. If I put a commercial cd or blank one in
the player, nothing happens, even the EXPLORER does not see anything init.
The CD recorder works fine but the player is invisible and pretty useless.
The drive is detected as being there by my copy program (NERO) but it cannot
start or read the drive.

Does it sound like it is time for a new one ?

TK

:

Try to Boot from CD.

If it isn´t working the CD-Rom Seems to be defective.

P,S. Is the green LED lighting if you put the CD in and get´s of
after a short period of flickering?
If not the Drive is broken.

Till then,
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[Bob H]

Make sure you are trying a Retail CD-ROM and not a CDR. Boot with a Retail CD-ROM in the drive. Then look in the Event Viewer and tell us any CD-ROM drive errors if at all. We need the EventID.

Hi, this is a reply to both you kind gents.
Yes I tried a Retail CD in the drive and still nothing. I also tried
booting with a bootable CDR, but it didn't work and neither did any
green led show any signs of life. I forgot to mention that before.
So I guess it is broken then? ANyway I have told him to get a new one,
and anything but a LiteOn make!.

Thanks guys

 

[George Hester]

Hi, this is a reply to both you kind gents.
Yes I tried a Retail CD in the drive and still nothing. I also tried
booting with a bootable CDR, but it didn't work and neither did any
green led show any signs of life. I forgot to mention that before.
So I guess it is broken then? ANyway I have told him to get a new one,
and anything but a LiteOn make!.

Thanks guys

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Bob H
Leeds UK

I don't know my LiteOn CDR I am very happy with. Sure beats that nasty Imation I once had. There is a generic CDROM driver that should work with it from DOS to the latest Windows. If that ATAPI driver is not working most likely the CD-ROM Drive itself is bad. One thing you could try is a Windows 98 Startup Disk and choose Start with CDROM support. Then stick in a CDROM and see if it can be read. If it can it's something else entirely. If not bum machine.