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Offline Cobra

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Frak.
on: February 10, 2006, 05:16:48 pm
Okay, I'm still having trouble with my CD tray. At first I didn't have any trouble with it, if it ejected while I was in a game I could just leave it and keep playing normally. But it's been getting worse, and it's a real pain in the ass, especially when I had to quit an installation twice because it kept getting all screwed up.

so, does anyone have any non-hardware buying ideas?
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I wept. Mysterious forces beyond my ken had reached into my beautiful mission and energized its pilots with inhuman bomb-firing abilities. I could only imagine the GTVA warriors giving a mighty KIAAIIIIIII shout as they worked their triggers, their biceps bulging with sinew after years of Ivan Drago-esque steroid therapy and weight training. - General Battuta
 

Offline aldo_14

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Re: Frak.
Reply #1 on: February 10, 2006, 05:19:53 pm
Um, what exactly is happening?
 

Offline Cobra

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Re: Frak.
Reply #2 on: February 10, 2006, 05:20:35 pm
thought you would have remembered. :p

it's randomly ejecting, most of the time 3 times in 30 seconds.
To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow. - Metrodorus of Chios
I wept. Mysterious forces beyond my ken had reached into my beautiful mission and energized its pilots with inhuman bomb-firing abilities. I could only imagine the GTVA warriors giving a mighty KIAAIIIIIII shout as they worked their triggers, their biceps bulging with sinew after years of Ivan Drago-esque steroid therapy and weight training. - General Battuta
 

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Re: Frak.
Reply #3 on: February 10, 2006, 05:23:45 pm
Done a virus scan?  W32/Magold-D - amongst others (I'm pretty sure a more recent virus did this, but a name escapes me at the mo) - randomly ejects the CD tray.  Assuming you're not fannying about with cabling, that'd be my first suggestion.  Then maybe look at checking your drivers.
 

Offline Cobra

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Re: Frak.
Reply #4 on: February 10, 2006, 05:25:49 pm
well, for one thing, this didn't happen until I installed Service Pack 2. i've also done several scans in the past with McAfee and Ad-Aware Pro. nothing came up.
To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow. - Metrodorus of Chios
I wept. Mysterious forces beyond my ken had reached into my beautiful mission and energized its pilots with inhuman bomb-firing abilities. I could only imagine the GTVA warriors giving a mighty KIAAIIIIIII shout as they worked their triggers, their biceps bulging with sinew after years of Ivan Drago-esque steroid therapy and weight training. - General Battuta
 

Offline Scuddie

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Re: Frak.
Reply #5 on: February 10, 2006, 05:27:25 pm
Maybe because McAfee isn't worth a damn?

Anyway, it could be the drive itself.
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Re: Frak.
Reply #6 on: February 10, 2006, 05:29:22 pm
Could be some SP2 + driver compatibility thing, I guess.  Hard to diagnose a problem I've never seen before.
  

Offline Cobra

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Re: Frak.
Reply #7 on: February 10, 2006, 05:29:49 pm
McAfee has saved my computer countless times. :p
To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow. - Metrodorus of Chios
I wept. Mysterious forces beyond my ken had reached into my beautiful mission and energized its pilots with inhuman bomb-firing abilities. I could only imagine the GTVA warriors giving a mighty KIAAIIIIIII shout as they worked their triggers, their biceps bulging with sinew after years of Ivan Drago-esque steroid therapy and weight training. - General Battuta
 

Offline Polpolion

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Re: Frak.
Reply #8 on: February 10, 2006, 05:53:37 pm
duct-tape it shut. Remove duct-tape when changeing CD's. Replace duct-tape when not sticky anymore. Buy new CD drive when the motor breaks on the old one.
 

Offline Cobra

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Re: Frak.
Reply #9 on: February 10, 2006, 06:00:58 pm
:rolleyes:
To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow. - Metrodorus of Chios
I wept. Mysterious forces beyond my ken had reached into my beautiful mission and energized its pilots with inhuman bomb-firing abilities. I could only imagine the GTVA warriors giving a mighty KIAAIIIIIII shout as they worked their triggers, their biceps bulging with sinew after years of Ivan Drago-esque steroid therapy and weight training. - General Battuta
 

Offline Nix

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Re: Frak.
Reply #10 on: February 10, 2006, 07:06:46 pm
Try this.  Power off the computer.  Disconnect the drive's IDE cable.  Restart the computer and boot into Safe Mode.  Look in your device manager under CD-Rom drives or whatever it lists for you that has to do with optical drives.  Delete any entries that may be there, and reboot into normal mode windows.  Let it load, and then power down again.  This time, change the master/slave setting on the drive itself, for example, if the drive was a master on the secondary chain, try putting it into slave on the secondary chain, and restart the computer.  Go DIRECTLY into your BIOS and make sure the drive is where you put it at.  Once you've verified that you have the drive in a different place, boot into normal windows and let it re-detect your drive.  This will kinda force windows to re-install the files needed for the device.  If it still ejects randomly, look for a firmware upgrade.  If it STILL doesnt work, try another drive.  If another drive does it, then it's definetly something you've installed, or contracted from the interweb that's causing the random ejects.

Sure, it sounds like it's a lot of trouble, but you have to be thorough.  Don't Assume Anything.  One of the many unwritten rules any computer tech should know and obey.
 

Offline Nuke

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Re: Frak.
Reply #11 on: February 11, 2006, 01:34:56 am
take out the drive and open it up, get to the tranee for the eject motor and pull one of the sprockets to that it can no longer function. superglue a handel of sorts to the front of the tray. reassemble and replace the drive. now it will no longer eject its self. when you want to eject, hit the button and pull the handel :D
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Re: Frak.
Reply #12 on: February 11, 2006, 05:17:22 pm
Hmm.. I wonder if a bad solder on eject button connections combined with fan vibrations etc. could cause it.
You, could try, removing it (the ecject button, that is) :p
 

Offline Cobra

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Re: Frak.
Reply #13 on: February 11, 2006, 06:20:36 pm
Quote from: Nuke on February 11, 2006, 01:34:56 am
take out the drive and open it up, get to the tranee for the eject motor and pull one of the sprockets to that it can no longer function. superglue a handel of sorts to the front of the tray. reassemble and replace the drive. now it will no longer eject its self. when you want to eject, hit the button and pull the handel :D

i like your idea better. :D
To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow. - Metrodorus of Chios
I wept. Mysterious forces beyond my ken had reached into my beautiful mission and energized its pilots with inhuman bomb-firing abilities. I could only imagine the GTVA warriors giving a mighty KIAAIIIIIII shout as they worked their triggers, their biceps bulging with sinew after years of Ivan Drago-esque steroid therapy and weight training. - General Battuta
 

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Re: Frak.
Reply #14 on: February 11, 2006, 06:59:24 pm
I have an idea. Cobra; get a new computer, and learn how to avoid bad websites/protect it from viruses. Seems every other month you come in here with some system killing bug :p
 

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Re: Frak.
Reply #15 on: February 13, 2006, 10:25:56 am
By the way, did you all know that 'Frak' originally came from a BBC Micro game?

http://www.bbcmicrogames.com/other.html

Used to play this at school ;)
 

Offline Cobra

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Re: Frak.
Reply #16 on: February 13, 2006, 11:58:11 am
Quote from: Unknown Target on February 11, 2006, 06:59:24 pm
I have an idea. Cobra; get a new computer, and learn how to avoid bad websites/protect it from viruses. Seems every other month you come in here with some system killing bug :p

which, oddly enough, happened to me last night. :lol:

a system restore helped, so now i'm back on track.
To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow. - Metrodorus of Chios
I wept. Mysterious forces beyond my ken had reached into my beautiful mission and energized its pilots with inhuman bomb-firing abilities. I could only imagine the GTVA warriors giving a mighty KIAAIIIIIII shout as they worked their triggers, their biceps bulging with sinew after years of Ivan Drago-esque steroid therapy and weight training. - General Battuta
 

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Re: Frak.
Reply #17 on: February 13, 2006, 04:45:06 pm
look, Cobra, if the link says "Free Porn" it's not. Just remember that. Nothing is free.
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Re: Frak.
Reply #18 on: February 13, 2006, 04:57:50 pm
Quote from: Raa on February 13, 2006, 04:45:06 pm
look, Cobra, if the link says "Free Porn" it's not. Just remember that. Nothing is free.

Except porn.


























Hey, why did my CD tray just open?
 

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Re: Frak.
Reply #19 on: February 13, 2006, 05:08:52 pm
Quote from: Raa on February 13, 2006, 04:45:06 pm
look, Cobra, if the link says "Free Porn" it's not. Just remember that. Nothing is free.

It's free alright. You click the link and then get to watch yourself getting ****ed. :D
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