Toshiba DVD-ROM problem

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I have a Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-M1402 that is acting up. It is five years old.
No driver update available and I have uninstalled/reinstalled. It will not
stay closed. It originally started having problems reading a disk and has
progressed to the tray coming right back out. Devise Manager shows no
problems. I am in the process of running Ad-Aware and Spybot. Is the drive
toast? Or is there something else I can check?
I am running win XP Pro, Spa2 on a Gateway P800. Any suggestions greatly
appreciated.

Stell

 

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Replace the drive. DVD-ROM drives are so inexpensive now it's not worth
repairing that one.


stell wrote:
> I have a Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-M1402 that is acting up. It is five years old.
> No driver update available and I have uninstalled/reinstalled. It will not
> stay closed. It originally started having problems reading a disk and has
> progressed to the tray coming right back out. Devise Manager shows no
> problems. I am in the process of running Ad-Aware and Spybot. Is the drive
> toast? Or is there something else I can check?
> I am running win XP Pro, Spa2 on a Gateway P800. Any suggestions greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Stell
>
>

 

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Edward please help. I have been having a message and blue screen come
up saying dumping fiscal memory to disk. I figured it was the memory
and just replace it. The board is and intel D845WN 1gig mem. Now
after boot, I three beeps and no boot.



Edward J. Neth wrote:
> Replace the drive. DVD-ROM drives are so inexpensive now it's not worth
> repairing that one.
>
>
> stell wrote:
>
>> I have a Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-M1402 that is acting up. It is five years
>> old. No driver update available and I have uninstalled/reinstalled. It
>> will not stay closed. It originally started having problems reading a
>> disk and has progressed to the tray coming right back out. Devise
>> Manager shows no problems. I am in the process of running Ad-Aware and
>> Spybot. Is the drive toast? Or is there something else I can check?
>> I am running win XP Pro, Spa2 on a Gateway P800. Any suggestions
>> greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Stell
>>

 

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Edward J. Neth wrote:
> Replace the drive. DVD-ROM drives are so inexpensive now it's not
> worth repairing that one.
>
>
> stell wrote:
>> I have a Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-M1402 that is acting up. It is five
>> years old. No driver update available and I have
>> uninstalled/reinstalled. It will not stay closed. It originally
>> started having problems reading a disk and has progressed to the
>> tray coming right back out. Devise Manager shows no problems. I am
>> in the process of running Ad-Aware and Spybot. Is the drive toast?
>> Or is there something else I can check? I am running win XP Pro, Spa2 on
>> a Gateway P800. Any suggestions
>> greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Stell

So it's toast. I was hoping it was just a computer glitch. Thanks for your
input.

 

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Try reseating the memory in the socket(s). If you can get the system to
boot, download and run memtest86 (www.memtest86.com). You might also
want to run the hard drive manufacturer's diagnostic on the drive.



Mrstookie wrote:
> Edward please help. I have been having a message and blue screen come
> up saying dumping fiscal memory to disk. I figured it was the memory
> and just replace it. The board is and intel D845WN 1gig mem. Now
> after boot, I three beeps and no boot.
>
>
>
> Edward J. Neth wrote:
>
>> Replace the drive. DVD-ROM drives are so inexpensive now it's not
>> worth repairing that one.
>>
>>
>> stell wrote:
>>
>>> I have a Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-M1402 that is acting up. It is five years
>>> old. No driver update available and I have uninstalled/reinstalled.
>>> It will not stay closed. It originally started having problems
>>> reading a disk and has progressed to the tray coming right back out.
>>> Devise Manager shows no problems. I am in the process of running
>>> Ad-Aware and Spybot. Is the drive toast? Or is there something else I
>>> can check?
>>> I am running win XP Pro, Spa2 on a Gateway P800. Any suggestions
>>> greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Stell
>>>
>

 

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Thank you Edward for coming back to me. I tried all that and know it
wasn't the monitor, so I am kissing it good by. I am going to build a
Motintd9155 intel D915GAVL LG775 VGA PCIX16 DDR 10/100, WITH A
CPUINT86301 INTEL PENTIUM4 6303.0GHZ 2MB CASHE 800MHz FSB, with
VGAATIX700 Pro, and use DRIWD-12JD1S Western Digital WD-1200jd 2 ea.,
and Corsair VS1GBKIT400 1GB DDR400 PC3200 CA.

The old one was my first and only home built. I think it is time to
step up a little. Again thanks for the come back.



Edward J. Neth wrote:

> Try reseating the memory in the socket(s). If you can get the system to
> boot, download and run memtest86 (www.memtest86.com). You might also
> want to run the hard drive manufacturer's diagnostic on the drive.
>
>
>
> Mrstookie wrote:
>
>> Edward please help. I have been having a message and blue screen come
>> up saying dumping fiscal memory to disk. I figured it was the memory
>> and just replace it. The board is and intel D845WN 1gig mem. Now
>> after boot, I three beeps and no boot.
>>
>>
>>
>> Edward J. Neth wrote:
>>
>>> Replace the drive. DVD-ROM drives are so inexpensive now it's not
>>> worth repairing that one.
>>>
>>>
>>> stell wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-M1402 that is acting up. It is five
>>>> years old. No driver update available and I have
>>>> uninstalled/reinstalled. It will not stay closed. It originally
>>>> started having problems reading a disk and has progressed to the
>>>> tray coming right back out. Devise Manager shows no problems. I am
>>>> in the process of running Ad-Aware and Spybot. Is the drive toast?
>>>> Or is there something else I can check?
>>>> I am running win XP Pro, Spa2 on a Gateway P800. Any suggestions
>>>> greatly appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Stell
>>>>
>>