{"id":535,"date":"2021-09-03T20:01:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T20:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/windows-95-windows-95-cdrom-drive-problem-171138-html"},"modified":"2021-09-03T20:01:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T20:01:58","slug":"windows-95-windows-95-cdrom-drive-problem-171138-html","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/windows-95\/windows-95-cdrom-drive-problem\/171138.html","title":{"rendered":"Solved Windows 95 CD-ROM drive problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><td>I have a Windows 95 computer that I still use to play old games. It&#8217;s an IBM Aptiva 2162-S3C. It&#8217;s one of those with that media console that has the CD-ROM and floppy drive separate from the tower.<\/p>\n<p>The problem I&#8217;m having is that the CD drive is only sporadically reading CDs now. It shows up in device manager as working properly. But when I put a CD in, it spins the CD for like 3 seconds, then just stops\/&#8221;gives up&#8221;. And then I have to eject and re-insert the disc usually 20 times or more before it&#8217;ll finally read the CD properly.<\/p>\n<p>Did some previous Googling on this. People suggested the laser lens might be dirty. I tried multiple brands of CD laser lens cleaning discs (the ones with the little brushes on the underside of the disc). I don&#8217;t think that solved the problem&#8230;the drive wouldn&#8217;t even read the CD cleaning disc! (It finally read it after 23-something retries.) The drive still had problems reading CDs after putting the CD cleaning CD in it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m now faced with the possibility that I simply have a failed CD-ROM drive. Does anyone have any other suggestions?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":346},"question-category":[],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}