A few days ago my pc crashed, since then my CD Drive has failed to operate in any way, it doesnt respond to pressing the eject button, PC does not pick it up etc. another thing i notice is that the LED constantly stays on, and when the PC crashed a CD was in there, which i have since taken out using the emergency eject. I do not know my model number, just the make and speed of my drive (Lite On CD-RW 16x10x40).
Here are my other PC Specs:
Windows XP Pro
AMD Athlon XP+ 2700
60 GB 7200rpm HDD
gf4 ti4200
I did use this cd drive on an older system using windows 98 SE and had no problems for 2 years, i have had other problems with the drive like the drive refusing to read discs which have been sorted.
I have downloaded new software from lite-on for my cd drive but because my pc does not pick up the drive i cannot install the new software. The only thing I can maybe think of as being a problem is that the computer is situated in approximately 2.5m x 1.5m cupboard and there is a bit of dust in here, though the CPU doesnt heat up (always hovers around 55c)
Any help is welcome
Here are my other PC Specs:
Windows XP Pro
AMD Athlon XP+ 2700
60 GB 7200rpm HDD
gf4 ti4200
I did use this cd drive on an older system using windows 98 SE and had no problems for 2 years, i have had other problems with the drive like the drive refusing to read discs which have been sorted.
I have downloaded new software from lite-on for my cd drive but because my pc does not pick up the drive i cannot install the new software. The only thing I can maybe think of as being a problem is that the computer is situated in approximately 2.5m x 1.5m cupboard and there is a bit of dust in here, though the CPU doesnt heat up (always hovers around 55c)
Any help is welcome