CD tray keeps opening randomly
Kim Rendell
krendell at optusnet.com.au
Tue Feb 7 14:44:58 UTC 2006
Art,
I've witnessed this same phenomenon a few years back on three PC's with
identical hardware/software combinations. Although they were not running
Linux the combination may be of some significance. I remember it being
kind of spooky when all of a sudden your CD ROM starts to pop in and out
randomly. At first not so often but eventually almost constantly.
The combination was a Diamond Data CD ROM drive coupled with a GA-6VXE7+
Motherboard and WinME. As each began to give trouble, replacement of the
CD ROM's appeared to fix the problem at the time. However in all three
cases the Motherboards failed within the following six months or so. For
the record, a fourth PC with the same Motherboard but a different brand
of CD ROM never developed the same problem over the same period but was
otherwise rendered useless when the power failed during a BIOS update.
It wasn't economical to chase a new BIOS, etc.
Perhaps this will help in some way. Good luck and cheers, Kim Rendell.
Art Alexion wrote:
>This has gotten to the point where it is unusable.
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>Any ideas?
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