First post, by jakethompson1
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First post in a long time.
Anyone found any solutions to old CD-ROM drives that seem like they lose the strength to open on their own?
That is, you push the eject button and it feebly tries (and fails) to open. There is no disc inside so it's not a jam. You can use a paper clip to get it opened but the next time you go to eject it's the same thing over again.
I've run into this not only on old IDE drives but even new(ish) SATA drives, made in the past 5-10 years or so. Is there anything that needs greasing that might help?
It wasn't as annoying when you could just go on Newegg and the like and buy a new IDE drive, but that's tough now. I'm getting some old PIII/P4 systems ready for sale on eBay (I hope) and it's annoying to have to put in a big caveat about the CD drive, but not worth spending money fixing either.