NEED HELP ASAP, i'm going crazy!

Chris-p-bacon · Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 5:48 pm Post subject: NEED HELP ASAP, i'm going crazy!

It's official, i hate my damned computer sooo bad right now. It just randomly decided to STOP READING ALL CD's. Everytime i put a CD in, nothing happens, it used to autorun, now it's just not detecting them at all, i go to my computer and it's not even in the disk drive apparently, i tried cleaning the CD's and nothing worked. BF2 has been installed for awhile now, so i put in the disk, clicked on the icon about 5 minutes later and it still said "Please insert the disk BF2 DVD into E:." and "There is no disk in disk drive E:" i hate this computer, i'm getting ready to sell it and buy a new pimped out one. can someone please save me the money and help me figure out WTF IS WRONG? i can't play any of my games.
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massive · Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 5:56 pm Post subject:

Very likely that your CDROM drive has died. They're very inexpensive and you could probably find an old computer that someone is / has discarded and salvage the CDROM drive from it. They're VERY easy to remove & install, all you need is a screwdriver.

BUT, you may have a dirty lens (this is not too likely though since NO CDS will read) but it may be worth a try. You can pick up CD cleaning kits at Radio Shack, Best Buy, etc. etc. - heck I've even seen em at grocery stores.

http://www.pc-extras.com/prods/clcdrc.html
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Wang Chung · Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 7:32 pm Post subject:

Open the comp and pull the plugs in and out of the drive once. There's no scientific proof that this really works, but I'm told it does :-/

I had a problem like this probably four years ago with my Dell. The solution was to just get a new drive.
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Daedalus · Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 8:26 pm Post subject:

Yea i'd say get a new cd drive, you can get a nocd patch off megagames.com until then, i've gone through about 2 cd drives in the last two years.
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Wang Chung · Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 8:30 pm Post subject:

Whoa, stop buying crappy drives dude!!!
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Chris-p-bacon · Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 1:15 am Post subject:

thanks guys, i'm lucky to be in a clan and know guys like you. A friend of mine that goes to school with me says he has a few extra CDROM drives, he'd let me have one. So hopefully that works. I'll update yall when i get the stuff in and working.
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SupaFly · Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 12:37 pm Post subject:

if ur consistently ounking cd roms, u might have a pwer supply issue....... if it spikes, it can take a drive quite easily.... if u get a new one & that one shits too, get a better power supply
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