I have seen this alot on some of the cheaper cd rom drives. I just replace them with a good quality one. You can get a good drive for around 35 to 40.00. Also you may want to add a little ram to that system. I would improve performance. :)
Jim Hodges
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  From: Anne Smith
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  Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 11:03 PM
  Subject: [PCBUILD] CD not seeing CD's


  Hello,
  I have a 44x CD reader in my Pentium 200, 32 Meg RAM running on Win98SE.

  Recently, it started to be a unreliable in 'seeing' there was a CD Rom inside. I used one of the commercial lens cleaner CD's and all was fine for a while, but now it doesn't see anything.

  According to Win98, it is working, when you put a CD in, the light flickers, it makes the whirring noise as the CD spins, but then nothing.

  Is there any way to get it going? or should we just get a new one? (I look in through the door with a torch, and removed a pokemon card, but it didn't help)

  Thank you

  Anne Smith

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