CD Wont Close Unless Forced

Hellbreather

Hellbreather

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Hey Guys,
I was looking at my gf's old computer last night, and I had a look at her CD drive, basically if you close the drive when there is no CD in, it will open back up (unless you put pressure on it with your hand or finger). But if there is a CD in it then it will close fine and fire up.
Me and the guys at work have never come across this before, we know there is nothing in there because the CD Drive would open even if a CD was inserted.

Anyone had this trouble before.
Thanks.
Hellbreather.
 
Lol

That's a very strange problem. I am sure that the drive is just acting up. Maybe it likes its CDs man!

JAN :D
 
You are right there JAN but how do I fix it lol, I've tried to restart it the comp even tried re-doing the connection to the motherboard.
Nothing works

At least it cant get enough of those CD's before you know it the CD Drive wont open when a CD's in there until it's finished with it ;) :D lol
 
Hmm...I know that this may sound weird, but have you tried using the drive in another PC. It could be that for some unknown reason Windows or some other program is sending the eject command to the drive.

JAN :D
 
Yeah I could do that but her dad really doesn't want me taking it out as he will hold me 100% responsible if something goes wrong with it (including if the problem aint fixed lol) so I aint gonna try that until all other options are out of the way/don't exist lol
 
Yeah but still I don't really wana spend my money on a brand new CD Drive when it might be fixed realy quickly. lol

Even though I will probably have too anyway :P
 
Hellbreather said:
Hey Guys,
basically if you close the drive when there is no CD in, it will open back up (unless you put pressure on it with your hand or finger). .
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Tape perhaps?

Seriously though, back when I was in high school, someone installed a program on some of the school PCs which would cause the CD drive to eject itself whenever it was closed. Perhaps there's a similar program on this computer (virus/hack perhaps?).

Other than that. it's probably a fault with the drive itself. You may just have to replace it.
 
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