CD Drawer

[Guest]

Last week I played a CD with no problem. Today, the CD drawer will not open.
Everything seems to be enables and working.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

 

[AndyP]

Last week I played a CD with no problem. Today, the CD drawer will not
open.
Everything seems to be enables and working.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Could be a loss of power to the CD drive or the tray could be stuck. Check
the power connector is plugged into the back of the CD drive (you will need
to remove the computer case (or at least one side of it). To release a
stuck CD tray there should be small hole on the front of the CD drive, push
straightened paper clip in and it will allow the CD tray to be opened
manually.

Andy

 

[Guest]

Thank you so very much, Andy. The paperclip worked! You're terrific!

Thanks again.

Judy

 

[Plato]

Last week I played a CD with no problem. Today, the CD drawer will not open.
Everything seems to be enables and working.

If the button dont work, time for a new drive.

 

[Richard Urban]

Why would you say that?

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[Plato]

Why would you say that?

If you press the button and your dreve wont open you CD, what else could
be wrong.

 

[Richard Urban]

Jammed CD, as another astute poster has recommended.

Would you pay $50 to $100 for a new drive because of that? I sure wouldn't.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Power off, manually eject the drive carriage tray with a straightened paper
clip or tool made for it and make sure nothing is jammed.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Malke]

Jammed CD, as another astute poster has recommended.

Would you pay $50 to $100 for a new drive because of that? I sure
wouldn't.

Apparently the OP solved her problem with the paperclip trick, but where
are you buying CD drives for $50-100? Maybe a DVD-RW, but a regular
CD/DVD-ROM drive is around $20-25. I don't know where you live, but if
you're in the US, check out NewEgg and Geeks.com for good prices/sales.

Malke

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Last week I played a CD with no problem. Today, the CD drawer will not open.
Everything seems to be enables and working.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Replace the drive.

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[Richard Urban]

<VBG >

I was thinking DVD when I typed CD.

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Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Apparently the OP solved her problem with the paperclip trick, but
where are you buying CD drives for $50-100? Maybe a DVD-RW, but a
regular CD/DVD-ROM drive is around $20-25.

Even for DVD-RW, that's high. I just had a new computer built for me. It
contains a CD, CDR, CDRW, DVD-RW+R Dual Layer drive which cost me $40 US.

 

[V Green]

Even for DVD-RW, that's high. I just had a new computer built for me. It
contains a CD, CDR, CDRW, DVD-RW+R Dual Layer drive which cost me $40 US.

And is a miserable piece of imported junk, built with plastic
parts where there should be Nylon (pickup mechanism), and
doomed to a short life.

I would GLADLY pay $200 + for an optical drive that would
last for 5+ years, but, in true free-enterprise "race-to-the-bottom"
fashion, nobody cares enough to not buy resource-wasting
disposable crap, and such an animal doesn't even exist.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

And is a miserable piece of imported junk, built with plastic
parts where there should be Nylon (pickup mechanism), and
doomed to a short life.

Remarkable! You can see all that from where you are. Must be some sort of
magic powers.

Even if you were right, it's rarely worth spending significantly more for a
better built piece of computer equipment. The technology changes much too
fast. Mine will likely last as long as I will want it to, and that's just
fine with me.

I would GLADLY pay $200 + for an optical drive that would
last for 5+ years,

You may pay whatever you want for whatever you want. I wouldn't pay anywhere
near that much for one. I don't care if it lasts 5+ years. Five years from
now, the technology will have changed and I won't want today's drive
then..There is hardly a single computer compenent that I would want to keep
that long.

 

[V Green]

Remarkable! You can see all that from where you are. Must be some sort of
magic powers.

Not really.
I have had to tear many of them apart to get
them working again until I had time to buy
replacements. They were all basically the same
inside.

Even if you were right, it's rarely worth spending significantly more for a
better built piece of computer equipment. The technology changes much too
fast. Mine will likely last as long as I will want it to, and that's just
fine with me.

CD drives have changed little, except for
read/write speeds for a very long time now.

You may pay whatever you want for whatever you want. I wouldn't pay anywhere
near that much for one. I don't care if it lasts 5+ years. Five years from
now, the technology will have changed and I won't want today's drive
then..There is hardly a single computer compenent that I would want to keep
that long.

And there is the real problem - the "throw away" society
we've become. Mountains of "obsolete" computer
equipment winding up in landfills - little of it at the
precious metals/other materials reclamation outfit.

If we weren't all to addicted to the Wal-Mart phenomenon
of lower prices, big picture be damned, stuff would be built
to last longer, because that would be what we would expect.

Except, as I already noted, you can't even "vote with your
wallet", as the level of quality in the product required for
a long, useful life doesn't even exist any more...

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

CD drives have changed little, except for
read/write speeds for a very long time now.

Not at all true. Over the last eight or so years, I've owned three CD
drives. The first was CDROM, the second CDR/RW, my latest is
CDR/RW/DVD-RW+R. If I had paid a lot of money for that original CDROM drive
or that second CDR/RW, I would have ended up replacing them, whether or not
they still worked.

Neither of those first two drives were expensive, but they all were
replaced--not because they broke, but because I wanted the features of the
newer ones.

 

[Bill Sharpe]

Power off, manually eject the drive carriage tray with a straightened paper
clip or tool made for it and make sure nothing is jammed.

I'd only recommend replacing the drive if you have to use the paper clip
for ejection multiple times. Generally it's a one-shot deal.

Bill