Help CD ROM trouble

Try cleaning the drive with a cleaning disc - if that doesn't work, it
sounds like the drive is beginning to fail - they're not expensive to
replace, fortunately.


"Levance" wrote in message
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I have a PIII667 running windows 2000 SP3 with all of the updates.
Recently
my CD-ROM will not read certin disks. Data, music and CD-R's some will
work
and some will not. I have inserted a music CD and instead of the media
player opening, it would open a dialouge box like my computer and show the
track.cda information. When I opened any media player to hear music the
application will lock up.

Any suggestions?

BTW all cd's will work in the cd burner and I have copied the from the
CD-ROM to the burner.

Thanks Ed, I tried cleaning the lens and the drive did work a little better
but not 100%. I swapped out the drive for one from an older system. The
drive worked great thanks for the advice.

-LJ
"Edward J. Neth" wrote in message
...
Try cleaning the drive with a cleaning disc - if that doesn't work, it
sounds like the drive is beginning to fail - they're not expensive to
replace, fortunately.


"Levance" wrote in message
...
I have a PIII667 running windows 2000 SP3 with all of the updates.
Recently
my CD-ROM will not read certin disks. Data, music and CD-R's some will
work
and some will not. I have inserted a music CD and instead of the media
player opening, it would open a dialouge box like my computer and show
the
track.cda information. When I opened any media player to hear music the
application will lock up.

Any suggestions?

BTW all cd's will work in the cd burner and I have copied the from the
CD-ROM to the burner.