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By bambam1 on Nov 22, 2007

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my cd drive is not recognize in my lap top compaq presario 2100

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Sep 20, 2008

-   My computer is a Gateway m-series, and I've run into the problem where I load up a CD for school and depending on my computer's mood it will either decide to run (often times copping out 2 minutes later by freezing), or refuse to run at all. Often it will not even allow me to open the hatch to retrieve the CD or place it in to try and load it. I've used the pin sized hole to open but the main problem it that it refuses to play at all.

I took my laptop to Best Buy yesterday, after getting nowhere with Gateway's phone "help"desk. The guy that helped me could find nothing wrong, but cleaned my lens with alcohol. That helped and I was able to use the CD drive all last night and for about two hours today when without warning the drive copped out again. I tried the alcohol again; tried restarting; tried crossing my fingers; yes, I even did a little dance with the result that it is now-literally- raining outside. I've gotten nowhere...unless you count that I don't have to water my lawn today...and am at wit's end.

Anybody experience this problem and found a way to fix it? other then buying a $100 extra piece of equipment? -   Guest

Nov 28, 2007

-   Same issue.

I have Presario 2175 running XP SP2.

It started just recently, the CD/DVD drive does not show up on occasion, sometimes it will, then disappears.

I have tried registery cleaners, updated my bios, check my CD-DVD connections, got another CD-DVD drive (from e-bay that was gauarnteed ok), Modifed the registry for lower/upper filters.

When it shows up, I can play CD's for hours, load software fine. When the system goes into a sleep mode it typically will disapper. It is not easy to get it to "re-appear" multiple re-boots, going from hibernate back with something in the drive seems to work.

I have had the system apart, very tedious and checked all connections. When it disppears it will not show up in device manager. I'm somwhat resigned to believe it's a motherboard issue, but why it will work for hours out of the blue is a mystery.

The only time it disappeard while using it was when I was trying to burn a CD RW, then errored out because the device is missing. Still trying to get it back from that ....

The frustation is it can be so many issues, including the OS it makes it hard to know which is the real issue. There are a numbe of scripts that modify the registry, for some reason when I use them "sometimes" it has an effect.

At this point ... I gues I will put up with it .... somday a new laptop is planned....-   gleadbet

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posted on Jun 23, 2008
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buy a new cd rom

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