CD RW drive can't open

[The Red Guy]

While playing the Return to Castle Wolfenstein game, I realised that the CD RW drive could not open but the main CD-Rom drive could. Which means when I try to eject the CD-RW drive it gives me an orange light, but everything functions. When I restart it turns fine, but after a while I can't use it again. Can someone help? I checked the system configuration in the control panel and it is working properly.

[The Red Guy]

Now it does not even have an orange light, it just won't open! Can anyone help?

[Dean]

Power supply problem.. make sure the power connectors pluged in properly [to the actaul drive]

[The Red Guy]

When I restart the pc, a faint light can be observed. But then it seems to shut down, could it be the fault of a short circuit or something? It has disappeared completely and now DirectCD says there's no CD-RW drive.

[Ben]

Definitely power. Try switching the plug to another wallsocket or getting a more powerful powersupply (I have a 350w powersupply running a USB CDRW, DVD-ROM drive, and a CDROM drive just fine).

[The Red Guy]

Now it seems to work...
Edit: Hey after restarting the com it is at it again...... :(

[Joshwang]

what cd-rw drive do you use.I've experienced this before,mine is RICOH 9060A(quite old).

[The Red Guy]

From the system config it's: IDE CD-R/RW. It's not the first time I experienced this, the first time was before the hard disk error.

[dawizman]

If you have this problem, it is quite easy to fix.

On the face of the drive there should be a small hole. You put a pin into it and the drive pop's open.

[Ben]

Originally posted by dawizman
If you have this problem, it is quite easy to fix.

On the face of the drive there should be a small hole. You put a pin into it and the drive pop's open.
*Scratches head*.....So THAT's what that little hole is for!:eek:

[Bruce]

I want a small hole, dammit! I wouln't mind an orange light either...

Anywho...

Originally posted by Ben
(I have a 350w powersupply running a USB CDRW, DVD-ROM drive, and a CDROM drive just fine). You definatley don't need that much power. I have 2 optical drives, a hdd, motherboard/cpu running just fine off of my 90w PSU.

[98125]

Originally posted by dawizman

On the face of the drive there should be a small hole. You put a pin into it and the drive pop's open.

my DVD rom (creative) drive's hole doesn't take a pin. Paperclip more like.

open out the edge of a paperclip and send it through the hole and use it as a handle and pull the drive out.

Might work if you don't have a hole for a pin.

Mullin

[Ben]

Originally posted by Bruce
I want a small hole, dammit! I wouln't mind an orange light either...

Anywho...
You definatley don't need that much power. I have 2 optical drives, a hdd, motherboard/cpu running just fine off of my 90w PSU.

:eek: How.......how do you run a computer off of such a small powersupply?

[Bruce]

Originally posted by Ben
:eek: How.......how do you run a computer off of such a small powersupply? 90w wasn't that small back in the day.. I think the biggest you can get even now is 150, or maybe it's 200w (I'm talking mATX power supplies here...).

[Dean]

think the biggest you can get even now is 150, or maybe it's 200w
http://www.pccasegear.com/prod427.htm

[trenzterra]

Originally posted by Ben

*Scratches head*.....So THAT's what that little hole is for!:eek: Yeah my DVD-ROM also has that hole and the manual say its for tha tpurpose.

[The Red Guy]

It's not the CD-Rom drive, but the CD RW drive and it doesn't have one, I think cos if you eject the drive while burning a cd it's not too good just for safety precautions. Well, back to square one now!

[Bruce]

Originally posted by Phyxisus
http://www.pccasegear.com/prod427.htm I know you can get even 600w power supplies, but if you would have read my post, you would have seen that I said mATX power supplies.