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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Octavius on February 23, 2003, 03:58:24 PM

Title: CDs spinning out of control
Post by: Octavius on February 23, 2003, 03:58:24 PM

Stupid CD drive is pissing me off.  

It only behaves when it wants to.  I own a generic 56x MTRP CD-ROM drive.  

It works fine half the time.  Sometimes it feels like spinning out of control when I insert a CD.  

It'll spin at an incredible RPM for a few minutes and sometimes stop when it wants to.

When it goes nuts, it freezes all operations of the CPU... sound, applications, everything... until it stops or I eject the CD.

Whats wrong with this thing?  How can I control the speed?  I'm in winXP.

Title: CDs spinning out of control
Post by: Siaf__csf on February 24, 2003, 05:34:33 AM

There's a virus that attempts to kill your hd and cd-rom drive by commanding them to overspeed untill they burn out..

But I don't think you have that one, most likely your cd-rom drive is simply faulty. It tries to read the cd-rom and fails to do so. Probably it then spins the disc in trying to find the track and jamming up your system in the process..

Try another cd-rom drive in the box, if it functions similarly then you have a problem with your motherboard ide controller probably.