Broken? DVD/CD drives broken?

[justdoit8319 0]

Latley my CD and DVD drives havent been wokring, they are serpereate drives. on a compaq. any suggestions?

[tuddy 0]

Any number of things sadly!Installing new sofware, can and sometimes does without knowing effects the performance of them, outdating of the drivers etc.Hardware may also do this, there may not be a compatiblity between them with the current drivers. Trace back to when you first noticed the slower/weaker performance, and think about what you did to the computer at this stage?Also Viruses!

[rvalkass 5]

If both of the drives are broken, try putting them into a different machine to see if they work. If not, the drives themselves are broken. If they do work in a different PC then you have either deleted the drivers for them, removed them from the BIOS or changed a system setting. As tuddy says, try and remember if you changed anything before the drives stopped working. If you are on XP you could try using System Restore.

[RGPHNX 0]

Hi justdoit8319,
I agree with both tuddy & rvalkass comments ..
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Any number of things sadly!

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Installing new sofware

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Hardware may also do this

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try putting them into a different machine to see if they work

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If they do work in a different PC then you have either deleted the drivers for them, removed them from the BIOS or changed a system setting

If all that doesn't fix the problem..then.. you can use the CD/DVD troubleshooting charts at my website in the "Beginners" section to sort it all out.
Be sure to post back with the news/results here or for more help.
Hope this helps
RGPHNX

[alicabektas 0]

if a cd/dvd drive dont works you must buy a new oneyou can not repair them