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Cdrom and DVDR gone ?

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Beer Me

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The power at my house recently went out and now after booting my computer up (it is connected to a surge portector) my CDrom, DVDrw and built in memory card reader has disappeared from bios and "my computer". They both open and shut and I can here it reading a disc when the computer is on but they are not recognized. Every now and then when I turn my computer on it will constatly read the disc drive and it smells like something is burning. What could cause this? I'm think about buying new stuff to build a computer but I dont want to if this is an easy fix ... any suggestions?
 
try replacing the cable... you never know if that'll do it or not, but a $3 cable is much better than a new $1000 computer
 
^ You mean $100 worth of a new CD-r and DVD-r and Card Reader dont you?. $1000 for a new pc because of two easily replacable things is rather stupid.
 
unplug one device and see if the other works, repeat. use something else (cheap!) on that channel, try the drives on another channel.

please, try the simple stuff before posting and tell us so we don't have to tell you.

i don't mean to flame, but c'mon work with me here.
 
If its burning, then somethings happened somewhere. I would say some sort of surge (just a small one) or a power problem could have affected the mobo. Try resetting the CMOS and see if that fixes it.
 
You are a lucky guy. Power losses can cause even much more damage to a PC. I lost two HDDs this way :mad:

You should consider buying a good no-break set in order to avoid same disaster again.
 
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