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Posted by Quaoar on June 18, 2005, 8:17 am
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news.rcn.com wrote:
> My CDROM has stopped working. Explorer can see the drive but when I
> put a disc in, it clicks relatively slowly four or five times and
> then gives up reading the disc
>
> I did have a problem with Easy CD Creator a month or so ago when I
> had to uninstall the program and it deleted the CD keys from the
> registry so the whole computer coulndt see any CD drives. Someone
> with access to the MS knowledge base pointed me to a Microsoft patch
> which indirectly put the XP CD keys back in the registry so I SUSPECT
> this is nothing to do with that problem unless anyone knows otherwise
> (other CD reader/writers arent working at optimum either and none
> will write at the moment and the internal CD writing function of XP
> has NEVER worked since, - which might be a problem with SP2?) but
> this clicking seems to be a symptom of the internal CD ROM drive on
> my Sony PCG-F590 computer:
> Are these symptoms of a dead drive? non-focussing laser? or merely a
> laser needing cleaning
More likely the drive motor. Remove the drive and install in a desktop
to test?
Q
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