Name: Jeff
I have two cd drives in my computer and neither one will open when I press the eject button.n when pressed the led flashes and it sounds like it wants to open but it will not?
They may be jammed. The easiest way to check is to take a paperclip (or pin, whatever) and carefully stick it into the tiny hole you see on the front of the CD drives. Usually this hole is located on the middle-left side of the drive directly below the CD tray.
Reach in there with the paperclip and press on the release button. The tray should pop open a couple of centemeters and then you can pull it out by hand.
If neither of them are jammed then I’d disconnect the IDE cables from the back and see if you can eject then. If the computer is trying to access the drive (or the drive thinks it’s being accessed) it generally will not let you eject.
Ah, also, while you have the drives manually opened via the paperclip, take a can of comressed air and blow them out. The lenses may be dirty and trying to read, but since they’re blocked they continue to try. The drive won’t always eject in the middle of a read operation.
May 22nd, 2006 at 1:30 pm
I tried the paper clip trick and both opened no problem. There is nothing stuck in either of them. I will try to disconnect the ide cable and eject it. If it doesn’t work with them disconnected, what could it be? I mean it is both drives. I think it has to be something in the programming It will work maybe once or twice after the paper clip opens them but that’s it.