CDROM keeps turning on by itself

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cripplecreek

Hello,

I have a cdrom that keeps turning on by itself. It doesn't matter if
there is a disk in it or not. I have sat in front of the computer with
nothing open and watched it just turn on (maybe every 20 min or so for
about 40 seconds). When the media player is open and music is playing
it will make the song skip????

I have win xp and media player 10. Can anybody help?

Stacey
 
JS said:
Could be an Antivirus program running, if so disable scanning the
CDROM.

JS

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Nope, not that. And just to test it out I ran Norton to scan the cd
drive and the light didn't come on.
 
You need to find the specific process or application that's accessing you
CDROM.

To do this try Process Explorer:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html

Once you have Process Explorer installed and running:
Click on the CPU column to sort processes that are using a % to the CPU.
Once you find the process that kicks in when your CDROM turns on, highlight
it, right click
and from the options listed select: google
This should display what out there on the web about that process.

Note: some entries like svchost may need to be expanded to show the detail,
in this case click on the + located to the left on the entry.

Also there is a Black bull's eye located at the extreme right of the
toolbar.
Drag this over the CPU graph spike created when the CDROM goes active.
This is another way to identify the process.

JS

cripplecreek said:
Could be an Antivirus program running, if so disable scanning the
CDROM.

JS

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Nope, not that. And just to test it out I ran Norton to scan the cd
drive and the light didn't come on.
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Ok, I dl Process Explorer and the problem is that the cd only stays on
for a few seconds. I'm having trouble telling what is processes are
being used right at that point.
 
There should be a small spike on the CPU graph. Drag the bull's-eye (located
at the right hand end of Process Explorer's task bar) over top of the CPU
spike. The process that caused the spike should be then be displayed.

JS
 
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