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Thanks for all the input guys - I am still testing... I tried a new ATA 66 cable and swapping the CDROM drive to "Slave" and the DVDdrive(which works fine) to "master" the TEAC W58E still blinks just the same...having a disc in...still blinks just the same. I ran a maxtor...

I have an AMD Athlon 700 on a Gigabyte Mbd with Maxtor 60gb drive, TEAC CDROM writer, running Win 98SE using the AMD drivers for IDE drives. Here's the weirdness - After boot up , when you try to open "my computer" it opens with a blank screen (no drive icons) that sits for almost 2...

That utility is very cool! I identified some HP printer stuff that seemed to be bugging the CPU with rhythmic requests, but did not stop the "pinging" of my CDROM drive. It must be a Windows driver since the pinging stops in Safe Mode...

I downloaded it and will give it a whirl thanks for the lead! Will report back results.

Tried the door open boot...no effect. I checked the seating of the cable recently when I had it open for a new fan. Thanks for the idea tho'!

I have an AMD Athlon 700 on a Gigabyte Mbd with Maxtor 60gb drive, TEAC CDROM writer, running Win 98SE using the AMD drivers for IDE drives. Here's the weirdness - After boot up , when you try to open "my computer" it opens with a blank screen (no drive icons) that sits for almost 2...