Grah. I hate technology.

[chaoswolf]

Okay. Technology is a nice thing, I admit. However...my luck with it really sucks! So far, my current list of items that are somehow damaged:

• Motorola V60i cell phone
(superglued antenna)

• Fujitsu S Series 6000 (stuck CD drive that I can't seem to open)


• 2 way Motorola radios (missing belt clip)


• Toshiba digital camera (keeps shutting itself off)


• Tungsten E PDA (cracked LCD)

I know what to do about the radios. Use belt packs I ordered from Amazon. I know what to do about the PDA: replace it. Problem is with the PDA....in order for me to use it on this laptop, I have to somehow get my CD drive fixed. I'm going to ask the guys @ school, see if they can fix it...then I'll ask mdlbear which I probably should do first....then failing both of those, I'll send it back to Fujitsu and ask if they can replace the drive. I really really hate technology.

Comments

[mdlbear]

We have a 3-year performance guarantee from Fry's on the Fujitsu -- we go to them before we go to Fujitsu. Is it possible that there's a disk in the drive that wasn't properly seated? (Not sure what to do about it, but that might explain the problem.)

Have you tried shutting the machine down, then doing the eject after you restart but before Windows comes up. It's possible for software to lock the drive. Or you could boot into Linux and try the "eject" command from a shell window (or there may be a menu item for it).

Oh, yeah: look for a little hole on or near the drive faceplate. If you find one, try poking one end of a paperclip into it.

[chaoswolf]

The problem is: the CD drive itself won't open! It's not that there's a CD lodged in there....it's that the track or whatever it is along the side is damaged. It's not opening at all. I've tried everything possible to get it to open, and it's broken.

[mdlbear]

OK; if the paperclip trick doesn't work, over the weekend we'll take it to Fry's and see if they can replace it. I have the paperwork downstairs.

[camerapup.livejournal.com]

meesa loves technology :)

[ashi.livejournal.com]

As for the PDA software, you should be able to either download it from the manufacturer's site or put it in a cd-rom drive on another computer in the house and share the drive long enough to install the software off of it.

Good luck with all that.