Run the Dell Diagnostics on the drive. The Diagnostics may be on your system. Press F12 for the boot menu at startup while the blue Dell screen is showing. Have a data CD (not music CD) ready for the read test. The Dell Resources disc is a good choice.
Im not sure what happened but it reads CDs again. But not all Cds. It will read the Dell CD but not blank discs or Music. Oh and i ran i diagnostics and it passed all the tests.
It could be a marginal laser or possible the lens may be dirty. If you have "canned air", you can try that to clean the lens. If the laser is weakening, it may be the beginning of the drives failure.
Skybird
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Does the drive appear in My Computer?
Look in the Device Manager .............
Click on the (+) next to DVD/CD-ROM drives. Right-click the drive and select
Properties. Is there an Error Code (number)?
skippyy
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Skybird
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March 24th, 2008 22:00
be on your system. Press F12 for the boot menu at startup
while the blue Dell screen is showing. Have a data CD (not
music CD) ready for the read test. The Dell Resources disc
is a good choice.
skippyy
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March 25th, 2008 01:00
Skybird
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March 25th, 2008 11:00
If you have "canned air", you can try that to clean the lens.
If the laser is weakening, it may be the beginning of the drives
failure.
skippyy
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March 26th, 2008 08:00
thanks for the help im pretty sure its just broken.
TSSTcorp was not the way to go:smileyindifferent: