I don’t know if anyone else has ever had this happen.
Doesn’t seem to matter what software I use, all seem to have this happen. Happened once withNero, and once with Deepburner.
Nero was awhile ago, I didn’t investiagate it as much as I did just recently cause I was doing some multi tasking (middle of a game to also with no save points around :().
in deep burner, I was burning an audio CD, it just finished prepping the files and I heard the CD drive activate but not spin up. The program froze. Could not end process or end task it.
So in the interest of getting that CD done, I tried to load up Deep burner again, it showed up in process list, but thats it. Couldn’t end task that one either.
So I tried to open the blank CD in Windows, when I dbl click it in My Computer, Explorer froze, could not be end tasked.
So for kicks, I end tasked Xfire, it worked. Not task mangers fault. So I opened up word document (cause its easy to open from task manager/new task) and did save as, sure enough, it froze when I click My Computer. Could not end task it.
I quickly rushed thru the game to a save point, shut down all my VM’s and movies. And tried to first, log off. It closed all processes but those that were hung. So then I tried restart… nope… shutdown…. nope…. reset button… yep :).
What the heck went so terribly wrong? I had something like this happen once at work as well, trying to rip a CD for my boss using CDEX and it hung up, and the system did the exact same thing.
During all these times, you could still eject the drive, press its play button and hear CD music. It seemed fine. I even mapped a share to it and used it from another machine with no issues while it was hung like that.
Has this ever happened to anyone before? Know of any good way to cure it that doesn’t involve unplugging the computer?
It’s of course, not happening right at this moment, so I can only try suggestions in the future if it ever happens. All noteworthy suggestions will get a thumb 🙂
