If I try to remove my cd-rom, my computer tells me when it's "safe" to remove it, so it is definitly recognizing the cd-rom. However, I can't play any cd's and when I go to "My Computer" and click on the Compact Disc drive, it tells me to insert a disc, even though a disc is in there. I am computer hardware illiterate, so please answer with easily understood terminology. Thanks!
2006-09-07 12:51:05 · 4 answers · asked by Smiley1 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
How do I find out how many optical drives I have and, if I have more than one, point to the right one?
2006-09-07 15:47:31 · update #1
Computers are not very difficult to understand. It has many parts that can break, however.
The CD-ROM usually has two separate mechanisms for determining its content. The first is mechanical one when the concentric (circular) rubber band at the center grasps the CD in order to spin it. This is the message your are getting when you are ready to expel your CD disk. It knows that the CD-ROM has grasped something within it.
The second method is optical when the laser attempts to create reflections off the CD disk. For some reason your laser is not flashing or your optic sensor is not reading the reflected laser beam. This is the message you get when you try to play the CD and the computer thinks there is no CD inside the CD-ROM because it is not receiving any optical readings.
You can think of this as using two different senses to determine an item. You can touch it or see it. In this case the CD-ROM can touch but it can no longer see. The poor thing.
2006-09-07 13:51:56 · answer #1 · answered by Roy W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could have been that the laser broke. My dvd drive lost it's cd laser I think, because it recognizes dvds, but not cds. Mine was probably from a cd that was burning, and it got caught up on the final stage, and ended up burning for over an hour.
2006-09-07 12:57:58 · answer #2 · answered by Paul 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How many optical drives are in your computer? If you have more than one, the program that you are using to play Cd's will have to know which drive the CD/DVD is in before it will play it..
2006-09-07 13:52:26 · answer #3 · answered by mittalman53 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
attempt this commence> administration panel> equipment> gadget manager and word if the CD rom force is there below DVD/CD drives If no longer the flat band cable has likely come loose. get rid of means cable. Open the pc case, earth your self by technique of touching the case and examine to work out if the Flat cabel is suitable acceptable to the force then the Mainboard, maximum acceptable take it off and positioned it on again, making positive it sits squarely. get rid of the means cable from the again of the force (next to the flat cable ) and fix a diverse one if there is one obtainable, if no longer re-connect the previous one. See if it quite works now, it ought to look contained in the boot demonstrate before homestead windows starts off. If no longer and it nevertheless doesn´t artwork get yet another one, they´r less costly sufficient.
2016-11-06 20:48:08 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋