Won't recognize CD drives

[jennymae]

OK check this out.
Got the CD drives working but now what started happening is my computer would work fine for a while then it would start freezing up for about 30 seconds every couple of minutes. I noticed that when it started freezing, the cd drive would then stop working again - light would come on, door not open, not recognized. Being the superstitious type, I thought they might be related so I disconnected the cable to the CD drives, and lo and behold, my computer stopped freezing up. It looks like something having to do with the drives was causing the freezing?

[GX1_Man]

Were the drives being accessed when the "freezing" occurred?

[jennymae]

No.

[panboy]

OK so its got to be related to your CD drives so,

Buy a new one , and get a new Ribbon cable as well

I'm sure if your nice to the store Clerc you can buy a CD-RW drive for like 30Quid and get him to give you a ribbon cable for free

[Rob Pomeroy]

Well no amount of replacement parts (apart from a new motherboard) is going to fix this if the onboard IO controller has died.

"Oil"?  Any kind of conductive liquid inside a PC can cause all sorts of damage and bizarre behaviour.

Before you buy any new gear, it would be best to borrow known working equipment for testing purposes - the CD drive and cables as suggested above, being the first place to start.  Don't worry - your computer's malaise is highly unlikely to spread to the borrowed equipment.

Unless that liquid is, say, hydrochloric acid...