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CD Burner Problem
opens and closes fine but does not detect the CD. What could be the cause of this? Hello, Jamie!
You wrote on Wed, 23 Feb 2005 21:08:12 GMT: J> I have a 52x32x52 LG CD-RW, it will detect in the bios and in my J> computer it opens and closes fine but does not detect the CD. What J> could be the cause of this? Clean your lens with denaturated alcohol on a cottonwoolstick. With best regards, EDJO. I think you mean that you do not see the CD drive in my computer.
If that is the case you likely have the Master/Slave settings wrong on the drive. The firest one on the cable general is the master and the middle one the slave or you could try them as cable select if your board supports that. Joe Show quoteHide quote "Jamie" <jamieiv***@nf.sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:0h6Td.8140$oh4.298238@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca... >I have a 52x32x52 LG CD-RW, it will detect in the bios and in my computer >it opens and closes fine but does not detect the CD. What could be the >cause of this? > Joe wrote:
> I think you mean that you do not see the CD drive in my computer. Interesting. I once had exactly the same problem but the drive just > > If that is the case you likely have the Master/Slave settings wrong on the > drive. The firest one on the cable general is the master and the middle one > the slave or you could try them as cable select if your board supports that. > > Joe stopped detecting the CD in the drive all of a sudden. I wasn't messing with the jumpers at the back of the drive, it just... stopped working. Took the hint and threw the f*cker in the bin. New CD-RW drives are damn cheap these days. Maby I am misunderstanding Jamies question.
I take it to mean The bios hence motherboard sees the drive but if you click on the my computer icon on a windows machine the Cd is not showing up there in the list of drives. I took it this was a new drive he put in that he could not get to work. If in fact he means his drive will not read a cd then by all means chunk it a buy a new one. Joe Show quoteHide quote "GFree" <nickt4***@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:421d13db$1@yorrell.saard.net... > Joe wrote: >> I think you mean that you do not see the CD drive in my computer. >> >> If that is the case you likely have the Master/Slave settings wrong on >> the drive. The firest one on the cable general is the master and the >> middle one the slave or you could try them as cable select if your board >> supports that. >> >> Joe > > Interesting. I once had exactly the same problem but the drive just > stopped detecting the CD in the drive all of a sudden. I wasn't messing > with the jumpers at the back of the drive, it just... stopped working. > > Took the hint and threw the f*cker in the bin. New CD-RW drives are damn > cheap these days. It sounds like it's defective and should be returned if new.
-- Show quoteHide quoteDaveW "Jamie" <jamieiv***@nf.sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:0h6Td.8140$oh4.298238@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca... >I have a 52x32x52 LG CD-RW, it will detect in the bios and in my computer >it opens and closes fine but does not detect the CD. What could be the >cause of this? > sorry about the misunderstanding. My BIOS detects it, "My Computer" detects
it. It gets power and opens and closes. It doesn't seem to spin the CD and constantly says please insert Disc. The jumpers and IDE and power cable are correct. I just wanna know if it is dead which I think it is. Its dead Go to Newegg and spend $25 to get a new CD burner, $35 to get a new
CD burner that will read DVDs, or Spend $55 to get a DVD burner to handle all Joe Show quoteHide quote "Jamie" <jamieiv***@nf.sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:JsaTd.8302$oh4.303464@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca... > sorry about the misunderstanding. My BIOS detects it, "My Computer" > detects it. It gets power and opens and closes. It doesn't seem to spin > the CD and constantly says please insert Disc. The jumpers and IDE and > power cable are correct. I just wanna know if it is dead which I think it > is. > I have a 16x DVD/52x24x52CD-RW the 52x32x52 was a spare, i figured it was
dead. thx all for the insight 
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