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greenmountain

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March 5th, 2005 13:00

liteon dvd-rom won't eject

Hello:
I have a Dimension 8200, pentium 4 1.8 ghz (purchased around 2002)
windows xp home
e drive: liteon dvd-rom ltd163
Have not loaded any recent/ new hardware or software on machine.
No problems with the liteon dvd player unit until 2 days ago, after playing a cd, tried to eject. Can't get it to eject.
Tried paper clip in "emergency hole" -- unit makes whirring sound and light flashes but door doesn't open. Shut down pc, and tried again, no avail.
Help?
Thank you
Todd

osprey4

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March 5th, 2005 22:00

Todd:

You shouldn't use the paper clip trick with the system running, only if off.

What kind of CD? Do you have DirectCD, Drag-to-disc or any other packet writing program running? I've seen this happen when a packet-writing program thinks it's got a disc in progress and will not release it.

greenmountain

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March 6th, 2005 01:00

Hi Osprey:
Thanks form the reply. At the time the disc got stuck, I was using a sound editing program, Audacity. Is this a "packet writing program"? Anyhow, I'll try the paperclip trick with the machine off. I Hope I didn't cause any damage by trying it with the pc on . . .
Todd

osprey4

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March 6th, 2005 10:00

Todd:

No, a packet-writing program (Audacity is not) will be included with your burning software. For example, if you use Sonic, they include a program called DLA. I would suggest you disable or uninstall this, as it conflicts with some other burning programs.

Are you burning CDs with Audacity? Maybe the program cannot close the session.

greenmountain

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March 10th, 2005 01:00

Well, as suggested I tried the paperclip trick with the machine off and, lo and behold, it opened the tray. The CD I was using had both a music file and a copy of the audacity program. It appears the problem has to do with running audacity off the disc. I downloaded the program onto my hardrive, and copied the music file onto a new disc. Now everything is working fine. Too bad -- I was looking for an excuse to replace the cd burner with a dvd burner.
Thanks for your help
Todd

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