On 21 Mar 2003, at 8:27, Redding Distributing Company wrote:

> Every time I put any CD in my drive, my monitor goes black and the
> message in large letters appears in the middle.  It says "Out of Scan
> Range".  Anyone know what this means?
>
> Cindy Sanderson

  The monitor is trying to tell you that it has lost (usable) signal from
the video card.

  Obviously, there's no normal way for a CD-ROM drive to do that.  It's
barely possible that this is being caused by some kind of trojan or virus,
or perhaps by some extremely screwed up hardware.  Can you provide us with
more detail about the PC, which OS you're using, the CD-ROM drive and the
video card?
  Have you looked inside the PC?  Any chance that the CD-ROM drive is making
contact with the video card?  (In some small cases, some drive bays may be
pretty close to the first (AGP) slot....)

David Gillett

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