Jammed Disc Drive

Sinfonia

Hello,

The DVDRW drive on my computer is jammed!
When I press the eject button, there is no light and the tray doesn't come out.
I can open it with a paperclip in the little emergency eject hole,
When I push the button then, it closes quickly, and won't open again (without the paperclip)

I don't know what to do about it, basically, any suggestions?

It's a Dell Dimension 3000 btw

mathias

Is this your PC ,

http://reviews.cnet.com/Dell_Dimension_3000_Celeron_2_4_GHz_256_MB_RAM_40_GB_HDD/4505-3118_7-31077378.html

If so , then your best bet is to replace the drive , they are only about 35 euro , this one here is pretty good ,

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=325580

Your drive sounds to be mechanically faulty and because a replacement is so cheap it really isnt worth fixing.
Replacing a drive is easy , and needs no software drivers or anything.

Khannie

Yeah, new drive, or take the current one apart to see what's wrong with it (sounds harder than it actually is).

Sinfonia

Ok, I think I'll get a new one, thanks guys:)

gamer

I could not open my dvd drive ,so i took it out from the pc for 5 weeks, then put it back in ,now it works fine.Could have been static electricity or something.PEATS have samsung dvdrw drives 40euro.It would not open with a paper clip either.

spurious

Have you tried rebooting the computer? Occasionally my DVD drive will stop responding and on reboot it works fine. It is the child of the devil.