CD Rom not working

G

Guest

hi there,

i am currently having problems loading a CD through my CD Rom, i have tried
several CD's in it, everytime i try and load up a CD it just appears blank in
the windows explorer field, it's like the CD Rom drive can't read it, but it
has been working fine recently, can someone help?

Thanks
 
S

SlowJet

Some softeware creates CD that can only be read by that software. Some
software provide an option to make the CD readable by all CD-ROMs.

Where did the CD's come from?

Try cleaning the CD-ROM.
If you changed the XP lately, make sure your Secondary IDE channel is set to
what your CD-ROM jumper is set to. UDMA or PIO. Some older CD-ROM's have no
jumper and must run in PIO.

The power management can affect the CD-ROM.

And sometimes it takes a min to read all the files to display. Did you check
the activity while the screen was blank?

That's all I know. :)

SJ
 

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