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Answer» I just got an Emachine for my friend and put a compact CD burner in it its HOOKED up in the back the light is on and the CD rom drive I installed works perfectly but the CD burner drive doesnt open and I dont think the right driver is on the computer to work the burner is their a site I could go to so that I might download softwear to make my burner work after I figuer out the model and EVERYTHING of course but am I right what else could it just be broken? any ideas would be helpfulQuote from: rockstar4cs on July 11, 2007, 09:35:57 PM I just got an Emachine for my friend and put a compact CD burner in it its hooked up in the back the light is on and the CD rom drive I installed works perfectly but the CD burner drive doesnt open and I dont think the right driver is on the computer to work the burner is their a site I could go to so that I might download softwear to make my burner work after I figuer out the model and everything of course but am I right what else could it just be broken? any ideas would be helpful What do you mean when you say the cd burner drive doesn't open? Are you unable to open it manually? Have you installed any cd burning software such as Nero? A few details of the cd burner would be handy (model etc..) I had to swap out a cd burner on a computer here at work the other week that wouldn't open even though I could hear it try, turns out the tray was too wide for that spot on the case so I just had to put it in another slot INSIDE the computer. Does it sound like it tries to open? If not just stick a paper clip in the small whole on the cd rom tray and it will open. Also just double check and make sure it's all connected right. (not saying it's not, but sometimes it's easy to overlook things)I got the burner out of a compact Pasario 5000 I put it into an Emachine when I turn on the computer the light on the burner comes on so I know its getting power but when I hit the button it doesnt make a sound it doesnt move but see I dont know if it automaticly detected the software for it or not but I dont know if its a software issue because the drive itself wont open when I hit the button could it be a software problem or is my drive just broken I'm going to try to manuely open it tonight when I get home from work any suggestions would be helpfulI just put a paper clip and ejected the burner I hit the button still isnt working what could be work what could I do to figuer out the problemWhen you open the the try manually (with the paperclip) and put a cd in it, will the computer read the cd? Also you can go to the device manager and see if it's listed there that might at least tell you if the computer sees the drive and if it does might tell you if it's working properly or not. -Control Panel, System, Hardware tab, Device Manager How is it cabled/jumpered ? ? Did it work before ? ? Try it in another machine to test.The moter might be broken on it I found it in a computer at work unplugged but people were going though them and were chopping stuff out of them and were taking the good ones so I figuered somone took some RAM cards and had no place to put the burner I mean could it be a software issue I mean like is it possible to install some software and the disk tray might open?I suspect it died quite some time ago...brand new DVD burners are 40 BUCKS shipped from newegg.

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I just got an Emachine for my friend and put a compact CD burner in it its HOOKED up in the back the light is on and the CD rom drive I installed works perfectly but the CD burner drive doesnt open and I dont think the right driver is on the computer to work the burner is their a site I could go to so that I might download softwear to make my burner work after I figuer out the model and EVERYTHING of course but am I right what else could it just be broken? any ideas would be helpfulQuote from: rockstar4cs on July 11, 2007, 09:35:57 PM

I just got an Emachine for my friend and put a compact CD burner in it its hooked up in the back the light is on and the CD rom drive I installed works perfectly but the CD burner drive doesnt open and I dont think the right driver is on the computer to work the burner is their a site I could go to so that I might download softwear to make my burner work after I figuer out the model and everything of course but am I right what else could it just be broken? any ideas would be helpful

What do you mean when you say the cd burner drive doesn't open? Are you unable to open it manually? Have you installed any cd burning software such as Nero?

A few details of the cd burner would be handy (model etc..)

I had to swap out a cd burner on a computer here at work the other week that wouldn't open even though I could hear it try, turns out the tray was too wide for that spot on the case so I just had to put it in another slot INSIDE the computer. Does it sound like it tries to open? If not just stick a paper clip in the small whole on the cd rom tray and it will open. Also just double check and make sure it's all connected right. (not saying it's not, but sometimes it's easy to overlook things)I got the burner out of a compact Pasario 5000 I put it into an Emachine when I turn on the computer the light on the burner comes on so I know its getting power but when I hit the button it doesnt make a sound it doesnt move but see I dont know if it automaticly detected the software for it or not but I dont know if its a software issue because the drive itself wont open when I hit the button could it be a software problem or is my drive just broken I'm going to try to manuely open it tonight when I get home from work any suggestions would be helpfulI just put a paper clip and ejected the burner I hit the button still isnt working what could be work what could I do to figuer out the problemWhen you open the the try manually (with the paperclip) and put a cd in it, will the computer read the cd? Also you can go to the device manager and see if it's listed there that might at least tell you if the computer sees the drive and if it does might tell you if it's working properly or not.

-Control Panel, System, Hardware tab, Device Manager How is it cabled/jumpered ? ?
Did it work before ? ?
Try it in another machine to test.The moter might be broken on it I found it in a computer at work unplugged but people were going though them and were chopping stuff out of them and were taking the good ones so I figuered somone took some RAM cards and had no place to put the burner I mean could it be a software issue I mean like is it possible to install some software and the disk tray might open?I suspect it died quite some time ago...brand new DVD burners are 40 BUCKS shipped from newegg.

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