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 Feb 3 2006, 10:37 PM
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Would cleaning the drives maybe fix it? Or does that mean it's time for new drives?  
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Feb 3 2006, 10:42 PM
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Have they ever worked in the past? How old is this computer?
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Feb 3 2006, 10:44 PM
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Are these newly installed? Or did they work at one time? Are you getting any lights on the drives when you insert the CD?
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Feb 3 2006, 11:47 PM
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The computer is 2 1/2 years old and both drives worked fine till about 3 weeks ago. The lights will come on initially then go back off.
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Feb 3 2006, 11:51 PM
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Sounds like your motherboard may be going
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Feb 3 2006, 11:57 PM
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 not brave enough to open it up! any suggestions?
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Feb 4 2006, 12:05 AM
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Well if your mother-board is going then theres nothing you can do. The Drives most likely have nothing wrong with them.
Hate to say it but you're most likely going to need A new PC. If you wish to you can save the hard-drive(s) the CD-rom drives, and anything else you want and just buy A new motherboard. If this is the route you wish to go then here are two links that you can order A new motherboard from: Tiger Direct New Egg. This post has been edited by WlkingMan: Feb 4 2006, 12:05 AM -------------------- Website got shutdown = ( ... Ill keep this here anyways =D
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Feb 4 2006, 12:40 AM
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I am wondering if it could be the power supply. I recently had a cdrom quit working on a friends computer. I changed the power connector to a different one from the power supply and it started working again. Maybe the power supply isn't giving them enough power to work properly. That is a much easier fix than a new motherboard. Is the computer working ok besides the cd drive problems?
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Feb 4 2006, 12:43 AM
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That is very unlikely do to the fact that there have not been problems associated with these drives in the past. I can almost gaurentee that it is the motherboard.
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Feb 4 2006, 12:47 AM
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Your CDs are on your Secondary IDE bus. Delete the bus from the Device Mangaer and see if XP will fix it on boot.
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Feb 4 2006, 08:13 PM
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 I want to thank everyone for the ideas. I think I'll try deleting the bus first and see where it leads.
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Mar 15 2006, 11:55 PM
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ironicly, both of my drives went bad at the same time. my computer guy tested them and replaced them and now it works great.
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