CD won't eject

[alice]

The eject button on my CD drive usually does nothing(on rare occasions
it does work). Also, chosing eject in any audio software does nothing.
Only the emergency eject hole using a paper clip will work. I have
replaced the drive 3 times now, and each one has this problem, so I
suspect either software or maybe there is some hardware on my mother
board that damages each one? Does anyone have any suggestions as to
what I can do as a permanent solution to this problem?

It also makes me wonder, why don't they make the emergency eject with
an easy to push button just like the other one? Is it so you don't
accidentally push it? But I never accidentally push the main one in the
first place. It would just make things easier, especially when that's
the only one that works.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

The eject button on my CD drive usually does nothing(on rare
occasions it does work). Also, chosing eject in any audio software
does nothing. Only the emergency eject hole using a paper clip will
work. I have replaced the drive 3 times now, and each one has this
problem, so I suspect either software or maybe there is some
hardware on my mother board that damages each one? Does anyone have
any suggestions as to what I can do as a permanent solution to this
problem?

It also makes me wonder, why don't they make the emergency eject
with an easy to push button just like the other one? Is it so you
don't accidentally push it? But I never accidentally push the main
one in the first place. It would just make things easier,
especially when that's the only one that works.

Your CD Drive requires nothing more than POWER for the eject button to work.

Turn off your computer...
Open the computer - unhook the ribbon cable - leaving only power connected
to it.
Turn on your computer...
Go into the System BIOS/Setup (Don't bother booting into Windows.)
Press the eject button.

If it doesn't work - you have a defective drive or possibly (unlikely) a bad
power supply/cable coming from the power supply.
If it does work reliably (every time) in this state.. Then...

Turn off your computer...
Open the computer - hook in the ribbon cable/audio cable/power...
Turn on your computer...
Go into the System BIOS/Setup (Don't bother booting into Windows.)
Press the eject button.

If it doesn't work - try getting a new ribbon cable/checking jumper
settings.
If it does work reliably (every time) in this state.. Then...

Exit the system BIOS/setup...
Boot into Windows XP...
Press the eject button.

If it doesn't work here - come back and let us know that you did all the
above and it is only in Windows when the eject button does not work.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

If you have a 3rd party CD burning program running, something like InCD or
similar, that program may take over the Eject function.

If that is the case, stop the program. Or right click that program's
notification icon (by your clock) and select Eject from that program's menu.

Try this...

Open My Computer | Right click your drive | Click Eject.

Then try this...

Straighten a paper clip, push the straight end into
the little (I mean small) hole on the front of the CD drive, there
will be a bit of resistance. Keep your hand out of the way. You
might consider doing this one with the computer turned OFF.

Eject CD or DVD drives

These two .vbs files will open the trays on D: and E: drives.

Copy the lines below into Notepad, not including the ---- parts.

Save as ejectD.vbs

-----------below this line----------------
Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
Set MyComp=objShell.NameSpace(17)
Set CD=MyComp.ParseName("D:\")
Set Context=CD.Verbs
CD.InvokeVerb "E&ject"
-----------above this line----------------

Copy the lines below into Notepad, not including the ---- parts.

Save as ejectE.vbs

-----------below this line----------------
Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
Set MyComp=objShell.NameSpace(17)
Set CD=MyComp.ParseName("E:\")
Set Context=CD.Verbs
CD.InvokeVerb "E&ject"
-----------above this line----------------

There is one difference in the two, ("D:\") and ("E:\") are the drive
letters. These can be changed to any CD or DVD drive letter.

You can move the .vbs files where ever you want.

You can also create shortcuts to both .vbs files.

Then just double click ejectD.vbs or ejectE.vbs to eject the drive. Or just
double click the shortcut to ejectD.vbs or ejectE.vbs to eject the drive.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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