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  1. December 16th, 2005, 03:05 PM #1
    tekwannabe
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    CD tray opening/closing on its own

    My friend has a pc that has a CD rom tray that keeps opening/closing on its own. OS=W2Kpro

    I ran trend virus and found no virus
    I installed/ran spybot cleaned out known problems
    cleaned out the .tmp files
    restarted pc

    we installed anther cd rom in its place and this is doing the same thing.
    I can put a CD in the tray and it works and then the opening/clsoing stops.

    Does this sound like a virus or what?
    Thanks
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  2. December 16th, 2005, 03:10 PM #2
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    Have you tried a different Molex/IDE cable?


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  3. December 16th, 2005, 04:08 PM #3
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    No, but I will give that a try.
    Thanks,
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    Check in device manager 'and' bios to be sure it's not being recognized as a hard drive.

    Another possibility is a 'joke' program labeled as a coke ad that did this to use your cd tray as a drink holder. Does your friend have any wierd minded buddies by any chance?
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  6. December 16th, 2005, 05:18 PM #5
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    I know I did find a virus that is called trojan.cdtray (on the symantec site) but I ran a virus scan and it shows no virus. I will check out the device manager.
    Thank you,
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    Anti virus programs may/will not remove a trojan. I'd suggest you give this one a try: http://www.moosoft.com/
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  8. December 18th, 2005, 06:27 PM #7
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    Resolved

    We put another CD rom in (replacing the old one) and now it's working fine.
    Thank you for your help.
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