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Posted by: Rune
I've had these problems for a very long time and it's getting to be too frequent to be a "coincidence". I get problems with ALL the CDROM, CD-R/RW and DVDROM drives I have had. For awhile I thought it was a bad drive(s) so I'd buy a new one, the new one would work great for awhile and then have the same problem:
I'll put in a cd and the drive won't see it. The light will blink, but the cd will never even spin and it won't show up in My Computer. If I double click on the drive it'll say "insert disc". So it's like it can't read the disc and assumes there isn't one there. It seems to happen more often with burned CD-Rs than anything else but it HAS happened with other CDs as well ... and like I said, this has happened with two different CD-R/RW burners, 3 different CDROMs and now my DVDROM ... so it's not just A disc or A drive.
WTH is wrong? driver problems? ASAPI? Win2k incompatability?
Posted by: Ritsui
If it's happening over time with all different brands of drives and both retail and home burned CDs, then my guess is it's probably one of two things:
1) Smoke/dust/dirt : This is the most likely cause and just blowing the drive out with compressed air may fix it, though you might actually need to take the drive apart to clean the lense (risky with some drives). This is the problem I always have and I usually say screw it and just buy new (cheap) drives every 2 years.
2) Voltage problems. : Check the output of your 12v line with a meter both at idle and under stress and make sure it doesn't drift more than a few percent. If it's jumping to extremes frequently, your drives may be getting "slowly fried". If this is the case, you should probably be seeing unusual hard drive errors over time as well.
It could also possibly be PCI bus or driver problems, but if that were the case the problems should occur even with a brand new drive, not over time. Even so, it can't hurt to check that your chipset PCI drivers are up to date and make sure PCI latency settings are in spec for your motherboard.
Posted by: Rune
Well I've considerred "1)" in the past but cleaning never made any change.
I've never really considerred "2)" but then this is 3 different computers all with the same problems, plus I've changed power supplies once in two of them for other problems and I recentl changed all 3 motherboard and processors, so I wouldn't think that'd be it. 
I forgot to mention that I've tried several different IDE cables to no avail as well.
I'll try giving 'em a cleaning again though I'm not very hopeful.
Posted by: Ritsui
How about heat?
Multiple computers and multiple drives would definitely seem to point to an environmental cause.
Posted by: Rune
Hmm ... yeah, that's possible I guess even though it's a lot cooler here than it was at the other place and still having the same problem. I'll see if I can cool it down more and then try it.
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