I have a problem with my CD-ROM on my old comp :(

[Richard Wilson of LOTU]

I have another comp which is a 1997 comp running , and recently for some reason the CD-ROM dont work at all, and when I click hardware it shows up as disabled with a symbol over the thing saying CD-ROM :( can anyone help me re-enable it.

[Junky]

Try removing it from Device Manager. Then restart Windows and let it load drivers for it again.

Have you added any new hardware lately?

A wire or ribbon cable to the CD drive may have come loose.

The CD drive may have given out, gone bad. It happens.

Is the CD drive recognized when the computer first starts up?

[Richard Wilson of LOTU]

thanks I will remove it and try loading it up, I aint added nothing new to it its my old computer and I only use it for a few games but the one game is real good and I want play it the CD-ROM could be bad , the comp dont reconize it when it starts but I will remove it from device manager and restart the comp.

[jtdoom]

hi,

I hope you had a bit of luck.
you did not say you saw this, but
CD 101 error could mean the drive went south.

one good way to test id the drive still works, is under DOS.
use the windows start disk, and copy something off a cdrom to hard drive

a good one to copy is the win98 folder...
like so
(assuming you have a D: driveletter in hard disks)
D:
md win98
cd win98
copy [cdromdriveletter]:\win98

...if the start disk detected it, you saw letter of drive at boot, for instance E:

when this copy process finishes without bluescreening or CD 101 errer, your drive is still good.

now, it may NOT be detected (101 error) and still be good.
This can happen if CMOS lost its settings, and the drive is no longer detected because its channel is set to NONE
(BIOS stores settings in CMOS, and the battery that uses can go south...)

sadly, cdromdrives do go south unexpectedly.

The blue screen in dos may mean the lens is dirty, or the CD is dirty or scratched.