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Posted by Platebanger on December 29, 2005, 2:20 pm
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works only 3 out of 10 times. I'm suspect something is disabling the drives
in the background. I can't find any virus that's causing the problem. Is
there a way to enable the drives with a system setting?
Thanks
Dick
> David H. Lipman decided to put finger to keyboard and typed the
> following missive for alt.comp.anti-virus:
>
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>>| My DVD/CD-Rom drives keeps getting disabled. The ready light just blinks
>>all
>>| the time. Even after rebooting. Is there a way to reset the drives
>>without
>>| rebooting ?
>>|
>>| Thanks
>>| Dick
>>|
>>
>>This is very doubtfully a virus relatesd problem.
>>
>>You may have a failing drive.
>
> Strange thing is, I have seen 3 systems with DVD problems in the last
> 2 weeks. One of them was a laptop, where flashing the bios worked, the
> other 2 were newish PC's, both of which kept continuously ejecting the
> tray. I ran a load of AV and spyware progs, and found nothing. Booted
> from Ubuntu Live CD and still had the same problem. It struck me as a
> huge coinkidink that there were 3 with DVD problems in that shor
> period. Is it possible that there is something out there causing this,
> or is it just a coincidence?
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