Just as an FYI to all - it _was_ loose cables. Nothing that I saw immidiately, but while working w/ Dell support, they had me reseat, swap, etc a few times, and at last it began working again. I recently installed a CD+RW and I must have not set the DVD connection well.
======================================================================= Raymond Camden, Principal Spectra Compliance Engineer for Macromedia Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo IM : morpheus "My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Ross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 10:06 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: CD-ROM > > > sorry I think you are SOL.......... > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/07/02 08:55AM >>> > 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 > > ______________________________________________________________________ Macromedia ColdFusion 5 Training from the Source Step by Step ColdFusion http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201758474/houseoffusion Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
