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re: cd drawer will not open Sunday, June 24, 2007 at 3:58 pm Posted by Dan (1278 messages posted) Have you ascertained that the cable is properly seated? Dan On Sunday, June 24, 2007 at 3:35 pm, Ronald Kresh wrote: >I have tried to open the cd door in several ways. I tried pushing the eject button >on the player. I tried right clicking on the icon for this drive and clicking on >eject. Nothing is opening that drawer. I even tried to open it in safe mode to no >avail. I hear the motor as if it is trying to open but it will not open. I tried >shutting the computer off and while restarting I hit the eject button and sometimes >it actually opened but even this is not working now. Could someone please offer some >help here as I do not know what to do. Thank you. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: cd drawer will not open Sunday, June 24, 2007 at 4:55 pm Posted by dhm (1069 messages posted) Look for a tiny hole in the front of the drive. If there is one, straighten a paper clip and push it in. When it meets resistance, keep pushing and the drive will open. This is not like taking a screwdriver and using it as a chisel cum crowbar to get something open. The CD drives were designed to be opened that way. CD drives die of overheating. You may have to get a new one. There is a strange superstition among us Americans that the CD drive must be the top one in the case where heat cannot rise away from it. Skeptical people put the little used little 1.44MB floppy there in an adapter rack and put the CD drive below that. The floppy does not run continuously so it won't overheat and heat can rise from the CD drive around it. On Sunday, June 24, 2007 at 3:35 pm, Ronald Kresh wrote: >I have tried to open the cd door in several ways. I tried pushing the eject button >on the player. I tried right clicking on the icon for this drive and clicking on >eject. Nothing is opening that drawer. I even tried to open it in safe mode to no >avail. I hear the motor as if it is trying to open but it will not open. I tried >shutting the computer off and while restarting I hit the eject button and sometimes >it actually opened but even this is not working now. Could someone please offer some >help here as I do not know what to do. Thank you. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: cd drawer will not open Sunday, June 24, 2007 at 5:45 pm Posted by Steve (23810 messages posted) Drive is probably broken. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: cd drawer will not open Sunday, July 8, 2007 at 7:38 am Posted by Ronald Kresh (10 messages posted) Thank you for the help in allowing me to finally getting the cd drawer open. The response that suggested I use a paper clip did the trick. I was not able to open the drawer on 2 computers that use the windows 98 operating system and the paper clip opened them both. One actually works fine now whereas the other, at times, still needs the paper clip to open but I believe that the drives are fine because the computers recognize whatever cd I put into that drive and plays it without a problem. Perhaps it is an overheating problem as you suggested for I do keep the computer that is still not opening all of the time in a very hot room (which I know is not a good idea!). Thanks again very much for everyone's responses. On Sunday, June 24, 2007 at 4:55 pm, dhm wrote: > >Look for a tiny hole in the front of the drive. > >If there is one, straighten a paper clip and push it in. When it meets resistance, >keep pushing and the drive will open. > >This is not like taking a screwdriver and using it as a chisel cum crowbar to get >something open. The CD drives were designed to be opened that way. > >CD drives die of overheating. You may have to get a new one. There is a strange >superstition among us Americans that the CD drive must be the top one in the case >where heat cannot rise away from it. Skeptical people put the little used little >1.44MB floppy there in an adapter rack and put the CD drive below that. The floppy >does not run continuously so it won't overheat and heat can rise from the CD drive >around it. > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum