Ran into a nice one... I was looking at cd..have PHILIPS CDRW 2400 It spun up fine and could browse the disk ok...(i dont have it to auto run) i have to go 'my computer..explore e:...I didn't see anyting i liked so i attempted to shut it down and remove the disk... I could not eject the disk, kept spinning full speed. The only way i was able to remove it was do a shutdown/restart thru task manager, then before windows started loading I went into bios so I had power to cdrom to remove disk, did nothing in bios, just went there to stop windows from restarting b4 i could remove disk...booted fine after that. I wasn't going to try ejecting it with that little emergency eject hole...cus it was running full speed. Havnt checked cables yet...gonna do that running virus scan now... I scaned the disk b4 i started browsing it...clean I get warning in event viewer event id 51 An error was detected on device \device\cdrom0 during a paging operation no info found on M$ help and support cd rom is less than 4 months old and i don't use it heavy PC is clean inside cus i rid the dust about every 3 months heat isn't a prob Can someone guide me what i'm supposed to look for? Drivers up to date windows up to date av up to date anti trojan up to date spyware removal up to date firewall up to date Thanks for any ideas ps. I know I should have posted in general hw forum but I'm here now....

And this is just with one cd? yeah, I've had the same, but it's always just been a dirty/scratched cd (if your drive cannot read the disk properly (even though you could browse it), it will just keep trying, and trying, and trying, regardless of how many times you hit the eject button). Some cd drives will allow an eject mid-whirl, some wont, it appears yours doesn't.

use the eject hole, while the pc is off to remove the cd. then try a different cd in the cd-rom.

http://eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=51&source= Description An error was detected on device \Device\CdRom0 during a paging operation. Comments; Adrian Grigorof This message usually indicates a bad CD (typically a custom written one or an original one with scratches or dirty).

Thanks guys It appears it was badly written cd as it does the same in my other pc. yes I guess turning it off and using the eject hole would have been too logical...lol. eventid.net.....good link Thanks.