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have this laptop that i bought from www.ibuypower.com and its not a brand computer.. its one that they built on thier own. but anyways. i bought it and it has worked great for about 5 months no problems. and now today my cd rom/dvd/cd burner is not responding to opening up. i tought the eject button and it doesnt do anything. i used a needle to use that "emergency" release and it works. i go to the drive on the my computer icon and right click on it and it ejects but i go into device manager and it seems to be working properly and it has exclamtiion point or anything saying that its not working properly. so all looks good..
and i restarted the machine too. i did anti virus scans, (dont know how that owuld make it not work.) but did it anyways. and when i put a cd in the tray. nothing happens!! it doesnt auto run like it use to. and i click on the cd icon and it shows as if there isnt anything in the cd file when there is a full cd in the tray.
the last time i used it was last night when i made a copy of a cd!!
eeerrr!!!!!! come on my fellow CEG!! help a oh so helpless one out!!!

thanks..

Well, I would try going into the device manager, uninstalling the hardware from your computer, and then let windows, or whatever operating system you are using, find the correct drivers for the Rom and see if that doesn't fix the problem.

ill try to do that when i get off work.
thanks..

more help is welcome.. come on you computer nerds.. lol

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