I have been trying to help someone get their CD working properly. Here is the rundown on what is happening: The CD that came with the computer quit working. She finally decided that it had to be replaced. It was & now the new one will not respond. The problem is that when you insert a CD, the light will come on like it is working but after a few seconds it goes off & nothing happens. I think it may be a misconfiguration of the drives. It's not the sound system because it will play downloaded music fine, just not a CD.The same CD will play on another computer so it is good. CD is suppose to be on the D drive which is what shows up under the Hardware profile but in the config sys. it is listed under E & also in the autoexec.bat it is listed as E. Operating system is ME & I changed the drive letter in Config can't figure out how to change the Autoexec.bet so that they will match. Does this make sense? Can anyone help?
i believe it may be a CD which you probably enable via my computer or explore through my computers, other programs are designed to automatically respond to a cd which matches their program such as windows media player and such but its either that, the cd reader laser or lens is broken, or the cd is scratched but since its an automatic execution file it makes no sense that it won't work, maybe the operating does not support the files, or the certain .bet file type Might be executable via my computer or exploration Cd reader lens broken Cd reader laser broken Cd scratched Operating system not support it .bet files not compatible with pc certain required hardware deleted from computer preventing enablement or possibly the computer just hates you haha thats all i can tell from my point of view, weird situation indeed tho.
something like this happened to me before. On my old computer, i put in "The Beastie Boys" "To the 5 Boroughs" cd. I ripped it all onto my comp. Afterwards, any cd, dvd i tried to use wouldnt work(it did the same thing as yours). after looking around on the internet, I found that many people had this same problem after using the same CD. If my memory serves me correct, the cd had some anti piracy junk that really screwed up your cd/dvd drive. I wish i could tell you what to do here. If you have another drive, you could try to use that. What i did was to buy a new drive( but hopefully you wont have to do that) Good luck!
yea i remember when that happened to him, hope ya don't have to go through the same thing, he had to switch to his dvd rom i think lol but now the ass has a brand new DVD drive thats worth more than my desktop hehe not for long lol Did anything help so far?
To add to the strangeness of trying to get the CD ROM working, getting tired of fooling around with it, I left it for a few days, went abck & it worked. Rebooted the computer & it went back to the same 'no play' mode. Left it again & went back the next day & again, it works. Rebooted it several times & still worked. Went back the next day, again 'no play'. %$$&#*#((#....darn thing is like a stubborn dog!!!
Hi BCDunn, Lets see if I can help keep the thinking going on this. I had a cdrom that would work one day then not the next like you are saying. It has been 3 or 4 years ago and what I can remember fixing it was completely going over the basics. I made sure it was not on the same IDE as the HD, made sure to check the Master slave/setting, checked the drive letter assignment(s) (I can't remember whether another drive was also connected) Then I simply went into Device Manager and removed the drive and let W98 find it and reload it. I simply got tired of fighting it and tried to let Plug and Play do its thing and it worked. I might have done this a couple of times until it gave up and decided to work. I had another case where a cdrw and a cdrom absolutely would not work on the same IDE so I gave up and removed the cdrom. (The old saying, you can't win them all and I tried every cable combination and setting possible.) Researcher
Well, the drive is finallly working. Like I had said, sometimes it worked & not other times. When it was working & did a Restore & going back to an earlier date seems to have gotten it working. It is working fine now. I still don't know exactly what was wrong but as long as the CD drive was not working, I could not Restore it. Hopefully it will continue. It's been 5 days now & that's the longest it has worked since last Fall. Thanks for all the replies & help. BCDunn :good:
