re: cd rom and floppy drives Thursday, August 4, 2005 at 5:39 pm Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Sharon Slayton (44 messages posted) Thanks...I did figure out (dumb me) the floppy not a problem. The CD drawer will not open at all, but in the BIOS it shows not installed and it is not showing up in device manager. So, I'm wondering if and why it's not installed or what happened to it. I suppose there is no way then to reinstall it if I can't insert a CD? On Thursday, August 4, 2005 at 5:30 pm, Jack Gulley wrote: > If the CD-rom drawer will not open after powering on the system and an holding >the button down, then either it is not getting power from the system, the drawer >is jammed, or the drive is dead and needs to be replaced. > The floppy drive does not have a drawer. If you can not insert a diskette, then >something is in it and causing it to jam. If there is a diskette in it, and pushing >the manual eject button does not eject the diskette then the diskette is some how >damaged and causing the jam. (However, on some Compaq machines with 120MB dual drives/floppy, >they will not eject the diskette if power is not working to the drive or if the >is an IDE bus hang problem, often caused by a system board failure.) Written in response to: re: cd rom and floppy drives (Jack Gulley: Thursday, August 4, 2005 at 5:30 pm) Responses to this message: re: cd rom and floppy drives (Chuck Bradley: Thursday, August 4, 2005 at 7:10 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] cd rom and floppy drives (Sharon Slayton: Thu, Aug 4, 2005, 11:25 am) re: cd rom and floppy drives (Jack Gulley: Thu, Aug 4, 2005, 5:30 pm) re: cd rom and floppy drives (Sharon Slayton: Thu, Aug 4, 2005, 5:39 pm) re: cd rom and floppy drives (Chuck Bradley: Thu, Aug 4, 2005, 7:10 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum