DVD drive intermittenly losing access.
Saturday, January 17, 2004 at 10:46 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by DanielSan
(3 messages posted)
At random, my DVD drive seems to lose its mind. ;-) It will work sometimes but
not others. I place a CD or DVD into the drive and nothing happens. Windows Explorer
will state that there is nothing in the drive (there is!), or it'll find the disc
and it'll be empty, or, sometimes (rarely) it'll work correctly.
Also, during a 3D game (Black and White, for example), the computer locks up with
a steady HDD LED for about 5 minutes before giving control again for about 10 seconds
before locking up for 5 more minutes...etc.
It does not do this during normal use of the computer (I.E., 3D rendering, video
editing, websurfing, etc.) and seems that it only does this during games.
Anyone got a clue what's going on? I'm stumped.
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