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computer problem - again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Lucky

Lucky Report 22 Sep 2004 15:49

I really feel I can't win at the moment. Finally got my NBI2 in the post today, feeling very low at the moment so thought great can spend a few hours going through looking, hey ho the cd drive won't work. Was perfectly fine last night, although recently has sometimes taken a few goes to get going. Any ideas you lovely people. computer is 2 years old in december on XP. Thanks Diane

Kim

Kim Report 22 Sep 2004 16:28

not sure but can you get some sort of disc that cleans it , I know what you mean as mine sticks occasionally and won't open. Kim

Carol

Carol Report 22 Sep 2004 16:31

I am not particularly au fait with xp, but can you get into device manager and make sure the cd drive is enabled. Just looked on other halfs xp. Click Start - Control Panel - Performance & Maintainance - System. On Hardware tab lick Device Manager.

Lucky

Lucky Report 22 Sep 2004 17:54

yes sorry, I have done that. told me to uninstall and reinstall, still no joy. Will have to try and get a lens cleaner tomorrow. If that doesn't work, back to pc world. Great. Thanks everyone Diane

Geoff

Geoff Report 22 Sep 2004 18:29

If you have 2 CD drives, try it in the other one.

Lucky

Lucky Report 22 Sep 2004 18:37

unfortunately I only have one. What a pain really looking forward to searching the NBI. Diane