My CD drive doesn't recognize cd's

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Dynamite, Oct 17, 2005.

  1. Dynamite

    Dynamite Private E-2

    My CDRW DVDROM drive doesn't recognize anything I put into it.
    Device manager shows it as working.
    Machine is Emachines M6805 laptop.
    I'm thinking this is software related but don't know where to start.
    I uninstalled Zonealarm(it has caused me problems playing DVD's before) but it didn't make a differencethis time so i re-installed it
    Any Ideas?.
     
  2. rogvalcox

    rogvalcox MajorGeek

    Is your laptop old or new...was it working before, then all the sudden quit working...if so...did you do something (i.e. install an app. or change a setting elsewhere, etc, etc) immediately before it crapped out on you????

    Roger
     
  3. Dynamite

    Dynamite Private E-2

    Hi I bought laptop beginning of year. I don't remember if i installed anything. I know that I have had problems before with playing DVD's. But then I think it was something with Zonealarm.
    It was working fine the last time I used it a couple of days ago.
     
    Last edited: Oct 17, 2005
  4. walker66

    walker66 Private E-2

    Try uninstalling the cd drive in device manager and restarting the computer. The drivers should self install on restart.
     
  5. Dynamite

    Dynamite Private E-2

    I already tried that it still doesn't work . I click on my CD drive and it shows there is no disk in it.
     
  6. Dynamite

    Dynamite Private E-2

  7. Dynamite

    Dynamite Private E-2

    any other ideas?
     

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