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Gainy
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My CD drive has decided to stop working 
When I try to run a program (that requires a CD) it just doesn't do anything. No spinning of the CD, no error message saying it can't find a CD, nothing. The only thing it can do is open and close.
It doesn't show up in 'My Computer', but in the device manager thingie it does - although it has a ! next to it.
So I check the device status, and it says:
After this, I checked the connections inside my computer. Took em all out, stuck em all back in. Didn't change anything.
I am utterly confused, have no idea what to do, help meh
Edit: Something else. It wasn't working for about 10 mins last night. Tried to run a program, did nothing (same problem). Left it for 10 mins, and it worked fine. Also something that might help: When opening and closing it this morning, it just stopped half way one of the times. Don't really know if this is related to the problem.
Edit2: Problem solved
Someone else helped. Ignore this thread (the solution if yer interested: http://www.siliconguide.com/qa/forum/messages/71.shtml )
When I try to run a program (that requires a CD) it just doesn't do anything. No spinning of the CD, no error message saying it can't find a CD, nothing. The only thing it can do is open and close.
It doesn't show up in 'My Computer', but in the device manager thingie it does - although it has a ! next to it.
So I check the device status, and it says:
Since it is a plug and play device, I can't really do anything to reinstall the drivers. I've been through the add hardware wizard, and it can't detect any newly connected devices.
After this, I checked the connections inside my computer. Took em all out, stuck em all back in. Didn't change anything.
I am utterly confused, have no idea what to do, help meh
Edit: Something else. It wasn't working for about 10 mins last night. Tried to run a program, did nothing (same problem). Left it for 10 mins, and it worked fine. Also something that might help: When opening and closing it this morning, it just stopped half way one of the times. Don't really know if this is related to the problem.
Edit2: Problem solved
Someone else helped. Ignore this thread (the solution if yer interested: http://www.siliconguide.com/qa/forum/messages/71.shtml )
