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    Alright so last night for some odd reason my computer decided to stop seeing that I had a CD-ROM installed on this piece of crap. My former D: drive no longer shows up in My Computer... and it wont read any discs. The last thing I was doing with it was playing mp3's off a data CD... then it went kaput. Any advice?
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    Virtualbody1234's Avatar Forum Star BT Rep: +2
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    Did you try restarting your computer?

    What are the specs of the so called "piece of crap"?
    What operating system are you using?

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    and you havn&#39;t had your case open and playing around in it have you??
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    Try going to Device Manager and uninstalling the CD drive.
    Then reinstall it.
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    Thats weird, it happened with me to. But only with So Long Astoria. By the band The Ataris. I thought maybe because it is an Enhannced Cd, but it would play it before. When i would insert the Ataris CD, my D: drive would simply disappear, making me restart my computer.

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    It came back and is working like normal after I re-started... but it&#39;s weird how that happened in the first place. Oh well. Thanks guys&#33; :-D
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    Originally posted by Engvalt@25 June 2004 - 15:53
    It came back and is working like normal after I re-started... but it&#39;s weird how that happened in the first place. Oh well. Thanks guys&#33; :-D
    what orcutt said makes sense...

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    Haha, i dont know if you are being sarcastic. But does it shut off when you are using enhanced cd&#39;s? If you dont know, have you bought them relatively recently from a major record store? The Ataris signed on to Columbia a while back, so it has an enhanced cd. Look on the case, it would say there, maybe on the actual cd. I know on my Ataris Cd it doesnt.

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    Originally posted by orcutt989@26 June 2004 - 11:46
    Haha, i dont know if you are being sarcastic. But does it shut off when you are using enhanced cd&#39;s? If you dont know, have you bought them relatively recently from a major record store? The Ataris signed on to Columbia a while back, so it has an enhanced cd. Look on the case, it would say there, maybe on the actual cd. I know on my Ataris Cd it doesnt.
    nahh, wasn&#39;t being sarcastic at all, you had an idea, and the thread starter found that it was pretty close to what ur idea was, so i say that ur idea makes sense...

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    Haha, thats sad if all this topic got was one more post. POST BITCHES, OR I&#39;LL CUT YOU.

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