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My CD-RW Drive Opens Itself Frequently....?
I had a virus/trojan problem last winter but the PC is now clean. I have used the drive often, but as far as I know it is still in working order. So what is causing it to open itself? Is it just plain wearing out? Or is my anti-virus and spyware possibly missing something?
Thank you in advance!
Yup-it's random. I should have added that the drive began to do this with the trojan/virus, stopped for several months after I fixed this problem, and now it's starting again (with no apparant virus). I think it's wearing out....
3 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
It could be several things. What are you doing on the computer when the drive opens? Are you doing something in Windows Explorer? Playing a game? On the internet? Or is it totally random?
If totally random it could be a program running in the background (good) or something nasty still (bad), or it could be a sensitive switch which the vibration of the computer (it's fans etc) making the drive open (hardware fault).
More info needed to pinpoint an exact cause...
- Anonymous1 decade ago
its a ghost