Anyone ever had a CD-ROM (well, in this case, a DVD-ROM) drive just up and die? I placed a CD in the drive about 10 minutes ago and launched up Audio Catalyst to quickly rip it. I noticed Audio Catalyst wasn't responding - so I figured the app just crashed. However, I couldn't close down the app. I got the wonderful msg from Microsoft about how the app can't be closed and if it is being debugged, to stop the debugger. (Why, oh why can't I kill a process? Even kill.exe didn't work. -sigh-)
So - I had to power down the machine since even shutting down didn't work. On boot up, I saw a msg during that said the second hard drive (which it called 0) wasn't available! On bootup, everything is fine, except the DVD-ROM no longer responds. There is a light yellow slow flashing thing in front. I'm guessing this means some kind of hardware failure. I haven't shaken the machine or even moved it. 3 weeks ago I popped it open to install RAM, and I added a CD-R about 2 months ago. (The CDR still works.) I've been using my DVD-ROM drive, well, actually quite often since I'm ripping around 300 CDs. Could it simply be a hardware failure? -rc ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
