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Diletra

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i only have 1 cd rom drive and whenever i put a floppy into the drive and read its contents, my computer restarts, same with a cd if i put a cd into the drive it restarts i ran fix it utlities 5.0 system diagnostics of the floppy and cd drive but i needed to put a media into the drives so it can read it but it kept restarting before fix it could do anything...everything else works fine and it really isnt THAT necessary i guess but what if i need to install new software...

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Diletra

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anyone? please help me with this problem...i cant use my CD or floppy drive at all and also i bought a 90 dollar mp3 player and i plugged in the USB plug and as soon as i turned on the mp3 player on to view the files, it restarted
 
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What operating system are you running? Unless someone else has a better idea, I'd say it's format/reinstall time.
 
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Diletra

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windows XP...i dont have system restore or a bootable/restore CD and it wouldnt work anyway since my CD ROM drive doesnt work
 
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Try booting from a bootable CD or floppy to determine whether you can access the drives...
 
Praetor

Praetor

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What kind of power supply do you have? (and what are your basic specs) I wouldnt think the 3.3V rail on a floppy would be enough to reboot a system but if you're running a P4 or something on some 275W PSU that might just do it.
 
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Diletra

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256 MB of ram
40 gb hard drive
1.6 amd athlon 2000+ processor

i emailed the technical support people and they didnt know what was wrong either and i also called the technical support and they didnt know what was wrong they said it was strange ive ran 3 different virus scans 6 times (not at once) ad-aware 6.0 and spybot search and destroy 4 times and defragmented it 3 times i also made sure all antiviruses and spyware software was updated b4 i ran the scans im pretty good with computers and im really stumped ive done everything ive uninstalled then reinstalled the drivers ive updated them and everything else i could think of
 
Scrat

Scrat

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Hi, I'm having this problem to but not quite as bad as yours. Occasionaly when i put a CD in my CD-R/RW drive the PC would restart.
One of my friends also has this prob occasionaly but they have an much older PC and have a new Iomega 52x24x52 CD-R/RW drive.
My PC also restarted occasionaly when i pluged my Digital Camera into the PC using the USB cable.
Now the CD-R/RW drive's draw wont stay closed, and doesn't read any CDs. I've tried using the Open/Close button on the Drive and just pushing it closed but it still ejects a few seconds later.
Diletra, what brand is your Power Supply and CD drive?
If anyone could help me as well i'd appreciate it.
 
Scrat

Scrat

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Do'h! Just looked down at my CD-R/RW drive then and saw the tray was actualy closed for once... 5min later it ejected and wont stay closed again!

Anyone got anyidea how to fix the drive or a site with a 'how to'? also anyone know what could be causing the PC to restart as in the above post.
 
Praetor

Praetor

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Now the CD-R/RW drive's draw wont stay closed, and doesn't read any CDs.
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You're absolutely sure the drive is physically ok? (i.e., there isnt somthing messed up with the ejection part)
 
tristan

tristan

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For the cd drive I would uninstall the drivers and reboot. Like Praetor said it could definately be the PSU.
 
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