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Lite-On DVD writer tray will only eject when a disc is in tray

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kevinbh93   10-01-2009 at 04:45:26 AM

I have a Lite-On DVD writer that will not open if no CD is in the drive. I have to use the manual eject pinhole. Once a disc is inside the writer, it will eject fine--open and close as many times as I need it to. It will even read and burn discs once a disc is inserted. SHM-165H6S is the model number of this particular drive.

If I hit the eject button, it will "try" to open but acts as if it's caught on something--a light thump. Then it will reverse trying to open and attempt to scan for any disc.

I know that many businesses will lock drives like this to keep employees from inserting media. I've looked around the tray and the bezel for some kind of a security/locking switch but to no avail.

Can anyone help me with this? This happens whether in Windows or POSTing. I've flashed the firmware to many different versions to see if anyone of them helped.

And it didn't used to do this. Thanks for your help!

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rand_79   10-01-2009 at 08:19:43 AM

does it eject if you use windows to eject with no disc in ?

 

right click the dvd drive in computer and left click eject

 

on a side note mine does something similar but if i hit the button 3x it works fine.

 

once-stuck 2-go back in 3 actually ejects.


Message edited by rand_79 on 10-01-2009 at 08:20:19 AM
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kevinbh93   10-01-2009 at 02:22:13 PM

The context menu eject doesn't work either. I've even tried 3rd-party software to send the eject command to the drive. :)

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kevinbh93   10-08-2009 at 07:39:13 AM

Anyone with any experience on disc drives that might do this? I just upgraded my motherboard, CPU & RAM, and switched to Windows 7 but kept this drive. It's doing the same thing still. :-\

It ejects too readily with the disc in to be a hardware malfunction.

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kevinbh93   10-14-2009 at 05:22:53 AM

Any help? I'd appreciate it. Thanks!

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