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Philips CDD4851 CD-R help needed

by ravage2x1 May 17, 2004 12:19AM PDT

I own a Philips CDD4851 CD-R/RW, and have a problem where my CD drive refuses to read any CD I put in. It was working fine over the past year, but since yesterday it has not worked. I am currently running Windows XP, and was wondering if anyone has a link to a working driver for my CD-R or any other suggestions to help fix my problem.
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by mbuc310 May 17, 2004 12:46AM PDT

blowing out the dust, use a cdrom cleaner tool, replacing it with a new drive. Other than the laser and some electronice, they are pretty much the same piece of plastic as a 20 buck read only drive, subject to failure for a number of reasons. Which is one reason you can buy a new name brand burner for 40 bucks. Also check the data cable, still firmly plugged in? Did it go bad?
If your device manager sees it correctly, then it is not a driver issue.

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