asked on

CD RW Drive Light Flashing

Here's the problem. I have a Philips PCRW804K CDRW installed in a PIII-500 (WIN ME) as the only cd drive. The drive light is continuousy flashing. There is no disk in the drive. It does not appear as a valid drive in the system profile. It continues to do this after a reboot.

This has been occurring for about 2 weeks. In the middle of this time, once it started working properly again. The next boot, the problem returned.

I have tried to "Add New Hardware", but the drive was not located as P&P or non-P&P.

Thanks for any help.

ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION

night_monkey

membership

This solution is only available to members.

To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.

Start Free Trial

baz_can_fix_it

Hi, assuming you have covered all the basics i.e the CDRW is on slave or master on primary or sec port etc and that you are using the right IDE cable etc...it sound like the head has lost adjustment... if the CDRW is not under warranty... open the box just where the laser is there is an adjustment if you have the right tool ( sometimes it uses L key sometime just a simple small philips head...

FriarTuk

No comments added lately, so it's time to clean up this TA.
Please leave any comments here within the next 4 days.
My recommendation in the Cleanup topic area will be:

DEL - No Refund

Please don't accept this comment as answer!
FriarTuk, EE CleanUp Volunteer

night_monkey

Actually, this person never came back to report on how our suggestions turned out. Trying the drive in another system is not always an option, but it is a fairly standard method for troubleshooting. baz can fix it has also provided some possibilities. I think it's unfair to process this in the way you've chosen to.