CD ROM

[Guest]

I have a DELL desktop and now the CD ROM drive stopped working. I cannot open
it on the tower (only opened by the manual eject button) and it won't read
disks. Is this dead???

 

[Malke]

I have a DELL desktop and now the CD ROM drive stopped working. I
cannot open it on the tower (only opened by the manual eject button)
and it won't read
disks. Is this dead???

Sounds like it. Swap it out for a known-working one to test.

Malke

 

[Kenny]

Try deleting it from Device Manager and rebooting, Windows will find it and
reload drivers for it.
Also check/replace IDE cable.

 

[BigJim]

dead