my cd drawer won't stay closed?
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Why aren't you sure? It's either closing or not.
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check the ribbon cable on both sides of the cd rom..the back and the board...the cable is probably loose
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To eject - Drag the disc to the Trash. \nTo close - use your hand to close the tray.
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Click on it and drag it down to the bottom. Once you've done this, right-click on it and choose "Lock the Taskbar" to keep it from happening again.
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it isn't advisable to do so... i had bad experience in doing so. First your cd rom will spin irregularly and it will result in a defective cd rom... Second the hard should be horrizontally placed to prevent it from overheating. the hard drive is made of cd like layers with heads in between and there is a slider on which the head moves. The head moves horizontally without any problem. When the hard disk is vertical, the head will use a lot much of energy to be able to slide up. Resulting in overheating and finally a hard disk failure.\nso just take my advice, either place your CPU vertically or buy a special casing for horizontal CPU.
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Open the CD drawer put in the windows disk, wait, hit enter wait more. Type some stuff in. Wait. Done
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Your cd drive has failed. Replace it.\n\nBest looking at DVD +- RW's as they are proving more stable than CD writers.
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Yes! Mine has problems with opening it!
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Some DVD player and writing software locks the drive through software 'till it has finished, so pressing the manual open button does not work.\n\nYou can:\n\n- Right click on the drive in My Computer and select Eject (sometimes works).\n\n- Use the Eject button in DVD player software (if available).\n\n- Restart the computer and press the manual open button after power on but before Windows starts.\n\n- Switch off the computer and poke a straightened paper clip into the tiny lock release hole on the front of every drive.
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if sun beam or strong light is incident to the CD it will not be blank\n\nand may Ur writer CD room is not good one or it old one
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You may have damaged your computer by shutting it down improperly.  You must always use the Start &#92; Turn Off Computer, etc. routine to shut it down.  If you still have the original Windows CDs, you could try repairing the system but I'm not a technician.\n\nGood luck!
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you can stop the CD drive ejecting all the time by using a tube of glue and gluing the drive shut, only kidding, I think your computer has picked up a virus,you should scan your computer with an anti virus,there are some free ones out there such as AVG from http://www.computeractive.co.uk
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this could be a number of problems.  try the following:\n\nCD drive is jammed by another CD:\n1.  get a paperclip and bend it so one end is straight.\n2.  look for a very small opening (about the size of the paperclip).  this will be very very small and have no other use or markings.  it should be located on the front of the drive.\n3.  this hole is the manual release for the hard drive door (if your drive has one... most do).  insert the paper clip into the hole to manually open the door.\n4.  if no CD is in the drive, use a flashlight to look inside and try to see if there is anything out of the ordinary... loose springs or pieces that are in the way of the door's movements.\n\nyour CD drive is not getting power:\n1.  turn the computer off but leave it plugged in.\n2.  open your computer case (refer to your manual for specific instructions)\n3.  look at the back of the CD drive (which will be located in at the top of the front side of the computer).\n4.  inspect the back of the drive, there should be a cord leading to it with 4 multicolores wires.  if there is no such wire than find one dangling and insert it into the proper slot on the back of the drive.  if there is a cord push on it to make sure it is in tightly.\n\nyou are trying to open the door to the drive via windows and the driver's are corrupt:\n1.  consult your manufacturer's web site for driver installation files.\n2.  re-install the drivers
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Hello, your problem to couse little quake, empty cd or your writer.\nyou must test use another mark cd. in impossible, go to your cd-rw company services.
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Have you ever tried to play a music CD in that drive? Do it once and push on the eject button while playing - if the drawer open, then the drive is ok.\n\nBut in your case it seems like the installer program keeps the drive locked, so you can't open it (this would be an error in the installer task of that game). Try to open the drive via this little pinhole - maybe you can then continue with the installation of that game - maybe.
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I once had a similar problem. Mine was opening and closing every second.....and I mean every second....non stop. It was a defective drive....HP had to replace the drive. Sorry for the bad news....your problem may be completely different.
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sounds like the CD drive button is broken. replace the CD Drive and see if that fixes it. \n\nIf a format didn't fix the issue its not a software issue. \n\n(how did you format with a broken CD drive? and if you have a second drive and it isn't open & close'n all the time, why would you assume a format would fix the problem withthe other drive?)