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CD-ROM won't read

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Name: solidsnake4mgs2
Date: May 14, 2004 at 10:39:18 Pacific
OS: Windows XP
CPU/Ram: Dell/256 RAM
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My CD-ROM hasn't been working right lately. If I put a CD in it that should autorun, it won't do it anymore. If I open the CD directory up in Run, sometimes it freezes. Sometimes it will read the CD, but mostly it won't. It hasn't been right since I got back from a 2 week vacation.

I have 2 CD rom drives, a regular and 1 for burning CDs. Neither of them work right. I know I don't have any viruses because I scanned, so it's not that.

Also, I already tried reinstalling the drives for each of them but still nothing.

I got the computer not long ago, it's only about 3 months old, so the drives can't be bad yet.

If anyone knows what's wrong, please tell me. Thanks



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Response Number 1
Name: neptune99
Date: May 14, 2004 at 12:26:22 Pacific
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what kind of cdrom drive? And what kind of Cd burner do you have and what speed are they?


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Response Number 2
Name: solidsnake4mgs2
Date: May 14, 2004 at 13:14:16 Pacific
Reply:

My main one is a HL-DT-ST cd-rom GCR-8483B and the burner is a samsung cd-r/rw sw-252s. I know the burner burns at 48x speed, and I'm not sure about the regular one.

Both of them came with the dell dimension 2400


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Response Number 3
Name: jam
Date: May 14, 2004 at 18:40:06 Pacific
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Dude, you have a Dell! Their support is supposed to be excellent, why are you asking your question(s) here?


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Response Number 4
Name: solidsnake4mgs2
Date: May 15, 2004 at 06:48:52 Pacific
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Dude! Dell's awesome! Yeah I got it to work now, thanks for letting me know where to look


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