Jim Coates is off this week. The following column offers some of his best advice from the past. Q. Jim, I cannot get my CD-ROM drive to open the tray to put a CD in it. Can you tell me what to do?

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Q: I need to replace my CD-ROM drive, which is a really slow one that came with the computer when I bought it a couple of years ago. I'm leaning toward at CD-RW drive, so I can burn my own CDs. I've ...

Sometimes, when I put a cd into my cd-rom, it starts going lightspeed, and makes a rattling sound. I believe the rattling sound is coming from the cd-rom drive screws vibrating on the bay holes. How ...

When is a computer not a computer? When it is a television. Maybe this seems strange to you now, but it won’t soon. Trust me. The future is spinning in my CD-ROM drive. It is something called ...