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new Cd Ram drive
« on: Sunday 05 July 09 16:19 BST (UK) »
We have a new Cd Ram drive and it will play music Cds  but none of my daughters games SIMS etc, Just makes a clicking noise from the drawer. When I open in My computer it says there is nothing on the CD, What am I doing wrong please....
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Re: new Cd Ram drive
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 05 July 09 19:41 BST (UK) »
xp or vista
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Re: new Cd Ram drive
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 05 July 09 22:32 BST (UK) »
CD ROM (Read Only Memory) drive?

It sounds like the games CDs are corrupt.
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Re: new Cd Ram drive
« Reply #3 on: Monday 06 July 09 09:40 BST (UK) »
I often find that washing a CD in warm water with a little washing-up liquid can work wonders with old discs  :)
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Re: new Cd Ram drive
« Reply #4 on: Monday 06 July 09 16:22 BST (UK) »
If the machine is running under Vista it could be linked to the Autorun problem which I experienced - see This Thread.

Hopefully Microsoft won't take too long to fix it.

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Re: new Cd Ram drive
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 07 July 09 13:33 BST (UK) »
windows XP, ok the old cds could be corrupt but she tried a brand new one. They aslo open fine in her sisters laptop (vista). Have tried the soap trick too - no go on that either.
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Re: new Cd Ram drive
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 08 July 09 02:29 BST (UK) »
Is the problem linked to CD/DVD, high content discs can be on dual layer DVD discs and the ROM device might be only CD 700MB type. That said I would imagine any new PC to contain DVD dual layer type ROM device.
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Re: new Cd Ram drive completed thankyou
« Reply #7 on: Monday 19 April 10 10:32 BST (UK) »
Just to finish this link, we had a new one fitted and all working fine now, thankyou for your help
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