Help with PC CD drive

[sharabi]

I just began getting an error trying to read my 'g' drive, which is my CD drive. I get the message :  g:\ is not accessible.  The device is not ready.  I have tried many different CDs and run through the diagnostics CD that IBM provides. The PC is an Aptiva. Can someone help me ?

 

[thorswolf]

Can you see the drive as a CD in Explorer??<br>You may want to remove the CD from Device Manager and re-installing. Worse comes to worse, you can always load DOS drivers.<br><br>Yves

 

[acidburn9t9]

open the cover on the pc check all of the cable connections,<br>if they are ok then reinstall of of your drivers.

 

[Sshaker]

Unfortunately Sharabi, the most common PC component to fail is the CDROM drive. Presuming no-one has been fiddling inside the case and bumped a cable loose, you might make sure there are no odd DOS CD drivers loaded in config.sys or autoexec.bat and try a lens cleaner. Sometimes helps but I find the usual solution is a replacement drive.

 

[tschuy]

I Have to agree with Sshaker....Most likely your CD-ROM drive has failed. One way to check this is to see if your computer BIOS see's it during power up of the system.

 

[pjs]

Also see if when booting up with a w98 boot floppy with cd rom support, the CD rom is found.&nbsp;&nbsp;If this, in addition to a regular w98 startup, yields no CD rom drive being found, then you have a harware problem.&nbsp;&nbsp;You may try moving the CD drive to another ide controller channel or moving from slave to master (or vice versa).<br><br>Paul <p>Paul J. Stiles<br><a href=mailto:stilespj@mindspring.com>stilespj@mindspring.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>

 

[sharabi]

Thanks guys...looks like most of you are pointing to cables and hardware....and I did just install an ethernet card so maybe i knocked something....<br>