Yeppers! It's the strike of the CD-ROM monster. I had one do that. But it was a second drive, so I didn't really care, and haven't had time to poke around. My first initial attempt revealed that it's likely hardware failure though. I need to open it up and check the cables.
The drive was only a year old, but past the store warranty. :( Erika ----------------------------------------------------- >>|-----Original Message----- >>|From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>|Sent: 07 February 2002 13:55 >>|To: CF-Community >>|Subject: CD-ROM >>| >>| >>|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 >>| ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
