crazyjoe16
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I have a Compaq Presario R3000. Lately I've been having some serious problems with its DVD/CD drive. Sometimes I will turn on my computer and have to wait on the Compaq screen for up to 5-6 minutes. Once everything finally loads, I go to my computer and find that my DVD drive is missing. I go into hardware manager, no DVD drive. Its gone. Yet, it's there because I can definitely press the little eject button on it and it pops out, and when I put a CD in, it makes some noise like its working, but only for a few seconds. Then, nothing.
This happens for weeks at a time, then magically, one day, the Compaq screen is only there for 2 seconds on startup! And my DVD drive is detected and working! Hooray! Then a few weeks later, oh no, its happening again, it's simply not working. Then the process is repeated, it will work for a while, not work for a while, work for a while, etc.
Does anyone have any idea what the problem is? I don't use CDs very often, but it seems like whenever I do need to use one, that's when my drive isn't working. And sitting on the Compaq screen for 5 minutes everytime I start my computer getsreally old.
PS - Anyone who helps me gets a cookie.
This happens for weeks at a time, then magically, one day, the Compaq screen is only there for 2 seconds on startup! And my DVD drive is detected and working! Hooray! Then a few weeks later, oh no, its happening again, it's simply not working. Then the process is repeated, it will work for a while, not work for a while, work for a while, etc.
Does anyone have any idea what the problem is? I don't use CDs very often, but it seems like whenever I do need to use one, that's when my drive isn't working. And sitting on the Compaq screen for 5 minutes everytime I start my computer getsreally old.
PS - Anyone who helps me gets a cookie.