Cdrom does not work

[hitech0101]

Yes its a cd rom 8 year old cd rom . It does not detect any cd inserted in it. It is my friend's computer it is running on 128 mb RAM 0.8 Ghz Pentium III . I know that he should replace it the entire PC but he wants to run it .Is there a solution to this. It is a 52x cd rom.

 

[kimsland]

If you put a boot disc in the CD drive, (ie like any Windows disc) and the CD reads, then its not the drive but possibly your Windows version (Win98 ?)

I know this may sound a little offensive, but I threw away about 4 complete working computers with slightly (ever so) specs than your friend's computer
If you go to any computer tech shop they may even give you one for a couple of dollars (which is obviously too much )

 

[hitech0101]

The thing is he wants to buy a new machine in a few months so he wants it to work till then & we tried the win xp boot disc it is the only cd we have rest all are dvds they don't work any way.His PC loads till the welcome screen & it reboots that is why need the cd drive to perform a repair . It is fine if you can tell any other way to repair the PC even when we try safe mode the PC reboots.

 

[kimsland]

Have you set CD as the first boot drive in Bios Settings? (usually press DEL key at system startup, but can be some F# key too, like F2)
Mind you, that old PC may not even have CD as an option to boot from in Bios settings

 

[hitech0101]

My friend did format the PC once so i assume CD is the boot drive