Hi Linda, I have one of those ancient 400`s, been a very good PC, (knock on wood .. lol). Let see if this might be a driver issue, click on the CD/RW gif in my post and scroll to Section 15, article 1 and Section 20, article 3. Next you might try cleaning the drive, I prefer one of those cans of compressed air, short "blasts" of air. Dell has an article on this in Section 9, article 4 of the same CD/RW link. Two last things, check your DMA setting for the drive, I know I had to do a trail`n error with my 400, Dell I believe has a firmware update for the drive and at times a firmware may breath new life into a dieing drive or at least for awhile. Use the "Downloads" tab above, enter information for your system and follow the links.
Best Regards
God, grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do and the eyesight to tell the difference.
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Hi Linda,
I have one of those ancient 400`s, been a very good PC, (knock on wood .. lol).
Let see if this might be a driver issue, click on the CD/RW gif in my post and scroll to Section 15, article 1 and Section 20, article 3. Next you might try cleaning the drive, I prefer one of those cans of compressed air, short "blasts" of air. Dell has an article on this in Section 9, article 4 of the same CD/RW link.
Two last things, check your DMA setting for the drive, I know I had to do a trail`n error with my 400, Dell I believe has a firmware update for the drive and at times a firmware may breath new life into a dieing drive or at least for awhile. Use the "Downloads" tab above, enter information for your system and follow the links.
Best Regards
God, grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway,
the good fortune to run into the ones I do and the eyesight to tell the
difference.