You can double check the connections (what was going wrong last time my drive went weird), but it sounds to me like the drive is just dying. They do that, unfortunately. <BR><BR>Remember, if the BIOS ...

Jim Coates is off this week. The following column offers some of his best advice from the past. Q. Jim, I cannot get my CD-ROM drive to open the tray to put a CD in it. Can you tell me what to do?

Q: Jim, I cannot get my CD-ROM drive to open the tray to put a CD in it. Can you tell me what to do? — Jeffrey Williams, yahoo.com A: You are a man of few words, Mr. W., but I’ll need more than a few ...

Sometimes, when I put a cd into my cd-rom, it starts going lightspeed, and makes a rattling sound. I believe the rattling sound is coming from the cd-rom drive screws vibrating on the bay holes. How ...