My Dell Latititude E6400 Will not play CD's.

Once a CD loads it will hang after some time. Sometimes it will never load the CD.

Also the CD drive makes a clicking sound similar to paper running against the spokes of a bicycle wheel. I beleive the actual spinning mechanism is at fault that fails to spin the CD. The CD will spin for a few seconds and then slow down with a the same clicking sound and try to reload again. This processes repeats over and over again.

I have tried to load CD's after a freash restart and it still fails to work.I have tried the same CD on serval other collegues laptops, which are older Dell's, with less ram as well and its runs fine - glitch free.

The laptop is brand new and this is the first CD I've run on it.

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Hmmm... well it sounds like you have a faulty cd drive. if your laptop is still covered by a warenty, then let the company fix it.

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