My Mom killed the CD-ROM Drive

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Ken Plunkett

Hello Everyone,

My mother was showing me a slide show of family pictures from a cd (not sure
what the program was called, and my mom didn't know either). Anyhow, she
opened the cd-rom bay while the slide show was still running. All of a
sudden, the blue screen of death comes up followed by (after I got rid of
the screen by hitting esc) a couple of error messages saying that the
program caused some sort of error in some *.dll file. Sorry I can't be more
specific about that, but I didn't think it was a big deal, so I didn't pay
attention. Anyhow, now the cd-rom doesn't recognize any cd I put in it.

Here's the stats on the computer
OS: Windows ME
CD-ROM: Lite-On LTN483S 48x Max
Make/Model: Dell Dimension L800r

If I go into the control panel and look at system and then device manager,
it tells me that cd-rom is functioning properly, but it is lying out it's
ass, 'cause the damn thing don't work!

oh, and i've rebooted the system a couple of times.

thanks for any help.

ian
 
Ken Plunkett said:
Hello Everyone,

My mother was showing me a slide show of family pictures from a cd (not sure
what the program was called, and my mom didn't know either). Anyhow, she
opened the cd-rom bay while the slide show was still running. All of a
sudden, the blue screen of death comes up followed by (after I got rid of
the screen by hitting esc) a couple of error messages saying that the
program caused some sort of error in some *.dll file. Sorry I can't be more
specific about that, but I didn't think it was a big deal, so I didn't pay
attention. Anyhow, now the cd-rom doesn't recognize any cd I put in it.

Here's the stats on the computer
OS: Windows ME
CD-ROM: Lite-On LTN483S 48x Max
Make/Model: Dell Dimension L800r

If I go into the control panel and look at system and then device manager,
it tells me that cd-rom is functioning properly, but it is lying out it's
ass, 'cause the damn thing don't work!

oh, and i've rebooted the system a couple of times.

thanks for any help.
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Boot up in Safe Mode and go back into Device Manager and Remove the CD-ROM
and anything pertaining to it. Reboot and let Windows detect and reinstall
it.
 
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