computer help: ok, so my computer is acting really weird. - Help.com

Reload/update the driver for the CDROM drive. It probably got corrupted.

its kinda hard to diagnose these probs over the net but sure i’ll offer what i can. if the cd drive isn’t showing up, have u checked if the bios can see it for a start? if it can’t then windows can’t. and if it won’t open up is it getting power? did ur computer get a knock? as for the start up, is ur harddrive a bit clutered? a diskcleanup/defrag/scandisk might help.

thats real wierd. ur harddrive could be dying if it sounds a bit louder than it used to or makes clicking noises, like the needle is getting stuck or sumthing. i’ve had plenty of hardware failures over the years. hope u back up ur stuff to external or sumthing. i learnt the hard way.

quite possibly man. i’ve had a couple of drives that never sounded good from the very start. like the mechanical precision in manufacturing a hard drive is crazy if u ever wanna bore urself googling it lol. u can’t really predict they’re reliability, they may die quickly, which is rare or they could last for years and years. but they’re probably the most likely thing to go in a pc.

if its new then the place u got it should be able to exactly diagnose it straight away. was it a shop or where did u get it? personally i build everything to my own spec but i cant usually advise ppl to just rip apart there pcs because they may not want to or know how to. esp if it has a warranty.

in my opinion, id find hp similar enough to dell in terms of build quality. to break it down, i think the 2 companies are just all about churning out as many machines as quickly as possible and don’t use the greatest of parts. i remember when i was in college only over a year ago, a lot of hps began to appear instead of dells and the harddrives were incredibly scratchy. do u no the make of the harddrive inside it? if not u shud be able to see what it is in device manager. if it happens to be a hitachi drive i’d say bye bye to it and get a proper one like a maxtor. i’ve no more ideas really tbh. if it were something i cud remote in and fix id do it no problem. but it sounds hardware/corrupt software. mayb just a job for a technician i guess. hope u can get it sorted.

i know this is gonna sound retarted but do you have a wireless card in your computer.. in my opinion that is the one and only indicator that might have shown if your hd was crashing and it shows that by before it just stopped working the wireless card stopped working… for the cd drive not working that has nothing to do with the hd cause in computers that dont have hds the cd drive still is reconized and reads disks and opens… the blinking line without the abaility to type means it is loading drivers or windows it self and if it is taking that long or not going at all then your system files are missing or courpt and you can try reinstall or your hd did die… for that you need a new one.. then reinatall…