CD insertion causes computer to "lock up"

FOADA · July 17th, 2006, 10:31 PM

The title is pretty self explanitory. For some random reason today my CD rom decided not to read a game CD I had in...so I took it out and tried a music CD..and it just freezes my whole comp. The second I hit the eject button it goes back to normal. I put a CD cleaning disk in to try it and it will open Windows Media and read the tracks, but it freezes about 3 seconds later and does the same thing. I dont know what wrong, I assumed the drive was dirty but maybe its dying?

Any ideas?

FOADA · July 17th, 2006, 11:37 PM

It appears my drive wont spin up...I dont see any excuse for this to happen, its not a very old drive. I dont think its even a year old. It told me "Drive D: Is locked by InCD server"

Any ideas?

Im completely lost, it worked fine last night and I had to transport it from house to house for about a week. It worked when I got home last night, I dont see why it would just die today.

bubbalou32 · July 17th, 2006, 11:42 PM

Go to Add/Remove programs and delete "Nero InCD". This add-on software to "Nero Burning" causes this problem.

FOADA · July 18th, 2006, 02:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bubbalou32

Go to Add/Remove programs and delete "Nero InCD". This add-on software to "Nero Burning" causes this problem.

Tried that and it still doesnt do anything. I put in a disk and usually like most drives it spins up and auto plays. It doesnt do anything but freeze about 3-5 sec after I put a disk in. Now its forcing me to restart instead of just freezing while the disk is in.

Im out of ideas, I dont see this drive being bad but Im not seeing any other explanations.

Thanks for thinking though, any other takers?

FOADA · July 19th, 2006, 05:05 AM

still no suggestions?

electric · July 19th, 2006, 09:59 AM

check your connections at the motherboard and cd-rom

is the cd-rom slave ? try making it master with it only
connected to the secondary idle channel

Foggy · July 19th, 2006, 06:13 PM

Might help, boot to safe mode and go to device mangler and remove all of your cd drives, then reboot and let windoz reinstall them.

FOADA · July 21st, 2006, 01:47 AM

Ill try to reboot in safe mode to remove the drivers, its a plug and play though...it says it doesnt need any special drivers and it worked fine the day before.