This exact thing happened to a friend of mine twice. What he figured was that continual use of the drive ends up killing it within a day or two. He still uses his current drive a lot but he gives it time to cool down between rips. So get a new CD-Rom and take you time ripping those 300 CD's.
Phillip > -----Original Message----- > From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 7:55 AM > 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 > ______________________________________________________________________ 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
