I could use some advice / help please

[Nanny Pam]

The door on my computers CD rom drive, keeps going open and shut all by itself. I have a ton on music downloaded the now I can't burn it since it opens & closes all the time. How do I fix that. Please help.
TIA

 

[Chasey_Lane]

Is it stuck on something? Did something get stuck inside the drive? Maybe you just have a ghost messing with you... :shrug:

 

[Nanny Pam]

Nope the little door opens all by itsels and the tray for the CD comes out to collect the CD and nothing happens when you push it closed. :shrug: in 2 or3 seconds it pops open again. WFT ?

 

[glhs837]

Hmm, that is a symptom of some viruses/malwares. What do you run for security, and have there been any other odd things?

 

[PrepH4U]

The door on my computers CD rom drive, keeps going open and shut all by itself. I have a ton on music downloaded the now I can't burn it since it opens & closes all the time. How do I fix that. Please help.
TIA

If you used it as a drink holder sometimes the liquid splashing can eff it up.
OR maybe it is your flux capacitor :shrug:

 

[krate]

Nope the little door opens all by itsels and the tray for the CD comes out to collect the CD and nothing happens when you push it closed. :shrug: in 2 or3 seconds it pops open again. WFT ?

It sounds like the eject button is stuck. Try pushing the button in and pop it out when you let it go. Can of anti-static air could clean it up and get it in working order.

 

[vraiblonde]

The door on my computers CD rom drive, keeps going open and shut all by itself.

Larry had that happen to his computer. His solution was to beat it into submission, then buy a new computer.

:shrug:

 

[aps45819]

Does it do it constantly while the computer is on or just when you try to load a CD to burn?

You might be trying to record over a used CD or you might be trying the load a DVD when the program is asking for a CD

 

[Larry Gude]

The door on my computers CD rom drive, keeps going open and shut all by itself. I have a ton on music downloaded the now I can't burn it since it opens & closes all the time. How do I fix that. Please help.
TIA

Would you like it in? Or out?

You may choose only one but, the fix is the same.

 

[FED_UP]

The door on my computers CD rom drive, keeps going open and shut all by itself. I have a ton on music downloaded the now I can't burn it since it opens & closes all the time. How do I fix that. Please help.
TIA

Could be a driver issue, try to uninstall that driver and download another one of the internet.

 

[Larry Gude]

Could be a driver issue...

Agree. I used a screw driver.

 

[GWguy]

Did you clean the gunk out of the mouse?

 

[merc669]

I had something similier and it turned out to be the drivers for my sound card. When the new set installed it did not fully delete the old set. So there was a conflict. Once old set was removed the problem stopped also. Then I read the instructions which said to do that to begin with...Anyways, might be something to look at...

Bill....

 

[DEEKAYPEE8569]

The door on my computers CD rom drive, keeps going open and shut all by itself. I have a ton on music downloaded the now I can't burn it since it opens & closes all the time. How do I fix that. Please help.
TIA

If you don't have a current version of your malware programs, start there.
If they are current, update all of them first and run them. Each seperately.

I always had AVG Anti-virus, Adaware and Spybot. I would update them and run them frequently.

If THAT doesn't fix the problem, you might just have to re-install the CD ROM drivers.

Hope you created a back-up set of CD's when you first turned on your computer. The CD drivers would be on those CD's.