problem with cd drive, keeps opening and closing

memory · 11-27-2007, 07:13 PM

My dad has a Dell 2400 with 2 cd drives, 1 is a cd-rw drive. For some reason it started opening and closing by itself contsantly. It would even do it when the computer is booting up. The one that opens and closes by itself is just a regular cd drive. He said he never uses this one so I just unplugged both cables from it. Now since I done that, under my computer neither cd drive shows up. Also he has two hard drives and only drive c is showing up.

Would they not be showing up because I unplugged the cd drive? The drive that I unplugged is on the top if that makes a difference. What would cause it to open and close by itself? Since I unplugged the drive, I have not checked to see if the other one still reads cd's. Do I need to go into the bios and put the second cd drive on top of the boot sequence?

ukulele_ninja · 11-27-2007, 07:14 PM

The two were chained together. Connect the top plug of the IDE cable to the other drive and set it as a 'master' to fix that.

memory · 11-27-2007, 07:20 PM

IDE is the bigger cable right? So you're saying hook up the IDE cable to the cd drive that I unplugged and set it as master? How do I set it as master?

ukulele_ninja · 11-27-2007, 07:28 PM

The IDE cable is the one that looks like a belt cable. There should be two plugs on that cable, use the one at the end of the cable not the other one. To set the drive as master, look on the rear end of the drive and there should be a place with 8 little pins. On two of those vertically there is a little cap. Remove that cap and put on the farthest right two pins (vertically) That should fix it.

memory · 11-27-2007, 07:32 PM

Are you saying to set the cd drive that I unplugged as the master? Just want to make sure. Why would I set that one as the master when it is not going to be used?

ukulele_ninja · 11-27-2007, 07:38 PM

No, set the other one as the master.

memory · 11-27-2007, 07:39 PM

Okay, I will try that and let you know how it went. Thanks for the help.

ukulele_ninja · 11-27-2007, 07:39 PM

no problem, if that doesnt work we'll move the pin to a new jumper till we get the right one!

ukulele_ninja · 11-27-2007, 11:19 PM

Did you get it to work?

memory · 11-27-2007, 11:44 PM

I did not get it to work. Should I move it to the next one over?

Well I put the jumper pin back in the original spot since none of the other spots worked. And I hooked both cables up to the cd drive that was opening and closing by itself and now both cd drives show up and it is not opening and closing by itself.

After I moved the jumper pin, should I have opened the cd drives? Because after I hooked everything back up in the original spot and opened the drives, they showed up. Also there are only 6 pins.

The second hard drive is still not showing up. I might unhook both cables on the hard drive and hook it back up and see if it works.

11-27-2007, 07:13 PM	#1 (permalink)
memory Gold Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Southern Indiana Posts: 399	problem with cd drive, keeps opening and closing My dad has a Dell 2400 with 2 cd drives, 1 is a cd-rw drive. For some reason it started opening and closing by itself contsantly. It would even do it when the computer is booting up. The one that opens and closes by itself is just a regular cd drive. He said he never uses this one so I just unplugged both cables from it. Now since I done that, under my computer neither cd drive shows up. Also he has two hard drives and only drive c is showing up. Would they not be showing up because I unplugged the cd drive? The drive that I unplugged is on the top if that makes a difference. What would cause it to open and close by itself? Since I unplugged the drive, I have not checked to see if the other one still reads cd's. Do I need to go into the bios and put the second cd drive on top of the boot sequence? __________________ New rig soon to be built: Thermaltake Armor Series VA8000BWS\|Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L \| EVGA 8800GTS(G92) 512mb \| OCZ Gold 4gb DDR2 800 \| OCZ GameXStream 700 watt \| WD 250gb SATA 3.0 \| Samsung 20x dvd burner with lightscribe \| Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit \| 19 inch widescreen Hanns G monitor Old rig for sell: Dell Dimension 9100 Pentium D 820/ Corsair 2gb of ram/Pny Geforce 6800GS OC/2 dvd burners/Maxtor 250gb HDD/WD 120gb HDD/Soundblaster Audigy 4

11-27-2007, 07:14 PM	#2 (permalink)
ukulele_ninja Diamond Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Ohio Posts: 2,358	The two were chained together. Connect the top plug of the IDE cable to the other drive and set it as a 'master' to fix that. __________________ Do you remember when the tigers broke free? CF COD4: CF\|UkuleleNinja

11-27-2007, 07:20 PM	#3 (permalink)
memory Gold Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Southern Indiana Posts: 399	IDE is the bigger cable right? So you're saying hook up the IDE cable to the cd drive that I unplugged and set it as master? How do I set it as master? __________________ New rig soon to be built: Thermaltake Armor Series VA8000BWS\|Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L \| EVGA 8800GTS(G92) 512mb \| OCZ Gold 4gb DDR2 800 \| OCZ GameXStream 700 watt \| WD 250gb SATA 3.0 \| Samsung 20x dvd burner with lightscribe \| Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit \| 19 inch widescreen Hanns G monitor Old rig for sell: Dell Dimension 9100 Pentium D 820/ Corsair 2gb of ram/Pny Geforce 6800GS OC/2 dvd burners/Maxtor 250gb HDD/WD 120gb HDD/Soundblaster Audigy 4

11-27-2007, 07:28 PM	#4 (permalink)
ukulele_ninja Diamond Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Ohio Posts: 2,358	The IDE cable is the one that looks like a belt cable. There should be two plugs on that cable, use the one at the end of the cable not the other one. To set the drive as master, look on the rear end of the drive and there should be a place with 8 little pins. On two of those vertically there is a little cap. Remove that cap and put on the farthest right two pins (vertically) That should fix it. __________________ Do you remember when the tigers broke free? CF COD4: CF\|UkuleleNinja

11-27-2007, 07:32 PM	#5 (permalink)
memory Gold Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Southern Indiana Posts: 399	Are you saying to set the cd drive that I unplugged as the master? Just want to make sure. Why would I set that one as the master when it is not going to be used? __________________ New rig soon to be built: Thermaltake Armor Series VA8000BWS\|Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L \| EVGA 8800GTS(G92) 512mb \| OCZ Gold 4gb DDR2 800 \| OCZ GameXStream 700 watt \| WD 250gb SATA 3.0 \| Samsung 20x dvd burner with lightscribe \| Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit \| 19 inch widescreen Hanns G monitor Old rig for sell: Dell Dimension 9100 Pentium D 820/ Corsair 2gb of ram/Pny Geforce 6800GS OC/2 dvd burners/Maxtor 250gb HDD/WD 120gb HDD/Soundblaster Audigy 4

11-27-2007, 07:38 PM	#6 (permalink)
ukulele_ninja Diamond Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Ohio Posts: 2,358	No, set the other one as the master. __________________ Do you remember when the tigers broke free? CF COD4: CF\|UkuleleNinja

11-27-2007, 07:39 PM	#7 (permalink)
memory Gold Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Southern Indiana Posts: 399	Okay, I will try that and let you know how it went. Thanks for the help. __________________ New rig soon to be built: Thermaltake Armor Series VA8000BWS\|Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L \| EVGA 8800GTS(G92) 512mb \| OCZ Gold 4gb DDR2 800 \| OCZ GameXStream 700 watt \| WD 250gb SATA 3.0 \| Samsung 20x dvd burner with lightscribe \| Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit \| 19 inch widescreen Hanns G monitor Old rig for sell: Dell Dimension 9100 Pentium D 820/ Corsair 2gb of ram/Pny Geforce 6800GS OC/2 dvd burners/Maxtor 250gb HDD/WD 120gb HDD/Soundblaster Audigy 4

11-27-2007, 07:39 PM	#8 (permalink)
ukulele_ninja Diamond Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Ohio Posts: 2,358	no problem, if that doesnt work we'll move the pin to a new jumper till we get the right one! __________________ Do you remember when the tigers broke free? CF COD4: CF\|UkuleleNinja

11-27-2007, 11:19 PM	#9 (permalink)
ukulele_ninja Diamond Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Ohio Posts: 2,358	Did you get it to work? __________________ Do you remember when the tigers broke free? CF COD4: CF\|UkuleleNinja

11-27-2007, 11:44 PM	#10 (permalink)
memory Gold Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Southern Indiana Posts: 399	I did not get it to work. Should I move it to the next one over? Well I put the jumper pin back in the original spot since none of the other spots worked. And I hooked both cables up to the cd drive that was opening and closing by itself and now both cd drives show up and it is not opening and closing by itself. After I moved the jumper pin, should I have opened the cd drives? Because after I hooked everything back up in the original spot and opened the drives, they showed up. Also there are only 6 pins. The second hard drive is still not showing up. I might unhook both cables on the hard drive and hook it back up and see if it works. __________________ New rig soon to be built: Thermaltake Armor Series VA8000BWS\|Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L \| EVGA 8800GTS(G92) 512mb \| OCZ Gold 4gb DDR2 800 \| OCZ GameXStream 700 watt \| WD 250gb SATA 3.0 \| Samsung 20x dvd burner with lightscribe \| Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit \| 19 inch widescreen Hanns G monitor Old rig for sell: Dell Dimension 9100 Pentium D 820/ Corsair 2gb of ram/Pny Geforce 6800GS OC/2 dvd burners/Maxtor 250gb HDD/WD 120gb HDD/Soundblaster Audigy 4 Last edited by memory; 11-28-2007 at 12:35 AM.

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