winslow33
January 15th, 2009, 13:18
Hello:wave:
While waiting for either a new hard drive to come my way for my computer to be back to working order or some money to come my way to rebuild my computer from scratch, one of my friends gave me a CD-ROM drive he was going to throw away. I got it to work, it was a bad solder joint on the eject switch. But there are a few other problems I can't figure out:
-When a disk is in the drive, it sounds more like the Johnson 20hp outboard motor we used to have:isadizzy:!!! The entire computer shakes!!:faint:
-There is a funny rattling noise coming from inside the part that spins the CD.
I'm assuming both problems must be related, but how might I go about fixing them? I've put a little oil in the motors and cleaned the entire drive, but it only helped ANOTHER problem: A terrible squaling noise when the drive opened. at least thats fixed...
I guess the poor thing must be almost dead, but I thought I'd might as well try giving it a shot and fixing it.
Thanks in advance!
While waiting for either a new hard drive to come my way for my computer to be back to working order or some money to come my way to rebuild my computer from scratch, one of my friends gave me a CD-ROM drive he was going to throw away. I got it to work, it was a bad solder joint on the eject switch. But there are a few other problems I can't figure out:
-When a disk is in the drive, it sounds more like the Johnson 20hp outboard motor we used to have:isadizzy:!!! The entire computer shakes!!:faint:
-There is a funny rattling noise coming from inside the part that spins the CD.
I'm assuming both problems must be related, but how might I go about fixing them? I've put a little oil in the motors and cleaned the entire drive, but it only helped ANOTHER problem: A terrible squaling noise when the drive opened. at least thats fixed...
I guess the poor thing must be almost dead, but I thought I'd might as well try giving it a shot and fixing it.
Thanks in advance!