On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 11:59:14PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 19:23 +0000, andy wrote: > > If I have one snag though it is this: there are occasions (irregular) > > when I will eject one DVD to replace it with another, close the drawer > > with the new media in it and then the system will hard freeze - the > > keyboard, mouse and power buttons are all useless. I can eject the newly > > inserted media but that doesn't change anything. > > The only option I have is to pull the plug at the back and reboot. This > > is a right royal PITA because if I am in the middle of some work, or > > have some unbookmarked links open in a browser or a draft e-mail being > > edited, I loose all of that work. > > These kind of errors (hard freeze) are often either bugs in drivers or > faulty hardware. Kind of hard to diagnose, but one way to start could be > to replace the DVD reader, if possible. I was thinking, but didn't say this. To elaborate, a bad/failing solder or wire could be getting displaced enough by the action of closing the drive resulting in a short and a hard freeze. A
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