cd-rom has life of its own. closes and opens by itself

[batchoychoy]

Im using a Creative Infra 52x CD ROM drive. The weird thing is that it opens and closes on its own. The device manager identifies it and says that it is working properly. Ive checked for visuses but found none. The Norton protect cant read it.

 

[butchrecon]

Are you on a network with other users? Do you use a cable modem or DSL? James Collins
Computer Hardware Engineer
A+, MCP

email: butchrecon@skyenet.net

 

[jclewis]

I've seen that also. I'll go to open the CD-ROM drive and then close it and it will keep opening on its own. After several attempts to keep it closed, it finally closes.

We use T-1 lines here. What affect does the type of lines you're using have?

 

[rtshort]

Strangely enough, I found a virus on one a few years ago that did that, though I can't remember the name of it. A bootable virus program should update it.
Every day above ground is a GOOD DAY!!!

 

[PCTHUG]

open your computer and unplug the ide cable then power your pc and open and close the cdrom this will allow to detirmine if it is the drive or the pc.

 

[pauser]

Creative Labs has fantastic products, but Creative Infra ??X is a lousy CD-ROM unit. I've been buying products from Creative Labs for more than 10 years. Those Infra CD's are exactly the ones I had problems with. 90% of them. I have six or seven Infra CD here with the same problem. And it is not a software related problem because it disappears after I change the CD drive.

e-mail: ppinto@dh.com.br

 

[CitrixEngineer]

Interesting - I've got a Creative 12x DVD with Infra control, and it occasionally does exactly this. Generally it only opens/closes during the boot process, so I tend to ignore it.

I've only noticed this happening since I "upgraded" the PC to Windows ME. It doesn't happen to the Sony CD-Writer in the same machine, on the same IDE channel.

I think the DVD drive itself is fantastic, but I have noticed "glitches" in other Creative Labs products, eg the Live audio card tends to emit pops and crackles under Windows 2000, ME and XP, but not under 9.x.

If it wasn't that their products work superbly, and are very competitively priced, I would have gone to another manufacturer long ago.

 

[SteveFoster]

CitrixEngineer wrote:

"but I have noticed "glitches" in other Creative Labs products, eg the Live audio card tends to emit pops and crackles under Windows 2000, ME and XP, but not under 9.x."

I have exactly this problem with a live platinum card and Win 2000. I thought there was something wrong with the card or my system after having reinstalled the drivers several times. After reading your post that doesn't seem to be the case. Do you know what the cause is and if there is a solution?

Steve.

 

[butchrecon]

There are programs that people can download and install on both their machine and someone elses machine that can give them access to specific Items and areas of a PC. You can open and close the CD remotly. Shutdown the system, and even open up IE and set it to go to a porn page if you arew mean enough. I asked if you were on a network or some kind of "solid" conection to the internet because I have seen this program wotk both ways. James Collins
Computer Hardware Engineer
A+, MCP

email: butchrecon@skyenet.net

 

[Zorlod]

You dont even have to have a static ip addy, for instance, if you have icq, when you open up the window to send a message, most people have their ip listed right there. That is why you should go into the settings of icq and disable that right quick. Once they've netbussed you, and they can see your ip, your done for...

 

[batchoychoy]

Im also using Win ME. Im not on a network. No visuses either. Ive tried disconnecting the IDE cable with only the power connected. The CD ROM drive still opens and closes on its own.

batchoychoy

 

[CitrixEngineer]

This particular machine is not on the internet - it contains all my work! I have other machies for internet use.

The DVD-ROM issue only seems to happen under ME. I tried it with Red Hat Linux 7.1, Windows 98 SE and Windows Whistler (XP). No problems.

The SB Live, however pops even when the computer is switched off, if you don't switch the speakers/subwoofer off.

I had a quick look around Creative's forums, ArsTechnica and HardOCP - these issues seem to be common knowledge to everyone except Creative.

None of the "solutions" I found resolved it - but I subscribe to the theory that the card doesn't like a "dirty" power supply. It's lessened now that I've set up a UPS (

http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47-68-85-1950_STO58017,00.html),

although I'm now saving for one of these

http://www.dansdata.com/eg651p.htm

 

[bra1niac]

Yea, I had issues with 'static' and popping regardless the state of the pc with my speakers.

It wasn't even so much the power supply of the computer or even the Boston Accoustics rather the poor wiring of the house. Bad wiring will get you every time. "Absorb what is useful, discard what is not. Add what is uniquely your own." - Bruce Lee - The Tao of Jeet Kune Do