Windows XP forum: PLEASE HELP - My CD Rom won't run

And there is in there at the top, you have to put this on top first, tyhere are four items at the top and the furthest one to the left has menu bar, click it open.
When you click on tools, it drops down to options, click on that. tab that has file types, click on that. I have everything checked except DVD Video. I use PowerDVD for that.
If you right click on an empty space on your toolbar, you see Toolbars, click on that and check Windows MediaPlayer. When you minimize your player, it will go there and the top right is for a small viz, bottom right will restore to reg. screen.
Now it is all setup (incidently my box for cd playback was unchecked). Drop the CD in and when prompted select play on WMP. Darrell Lewis

Hey Guys,,, first off thanks for the help. I tried both suggestions, however, I now believe the problem is with my CD Rom. It won't run, however, it runs in the Power DVD. I spent the last 2 hours trying to figure this out. strange..

Incidentally I was in the BIOS looking around carefully. These are my settings. On boot I have IDE,
Floppy and cd rom for the third device.

primary master - auto detected
primary slave- n1
secondary master - auto detected
secondary slave- n1

Hi Paul, I was able to watch my Van Halen Live DVD on both the Power DVD and Winmedia 10 player. When I place a music cd in the same drive it freezes and so does other thinks like software applications, etc.

This is really nutty.

Please help..
Kevin

Hi Paul, I did this,however, I'm not sure this is the issue as my DVD's run fine in both my power dvd and win media 10 app. My only issue is that my music or software cd's won't run which is really weird.

Thanks for all this help everyone. I really need to figure this out. Anyone have any idea why my regular cd's won't run?

Thanks,
Kevin

My DVD's work fine using this same CD Rom player, just my regular music cd's and software apps will hang up and not respond. I'm starting to think maybe I just have a dvd player installed which is weird because I bought a dvd/cd rom player.

I'm totally baffled by this.

Any other ideas will be appreciated.

Kevin

I used that file and it told me the upper filter and lower filter regitry that can cause cd access problems don't exist on my computer. What do I do now?

Maybe we are on to something here.

Kevin

Paul, I followed the instructions on the MS oft site and now I lost the cd rom in device manager. HELP

Kevin

Yes... It says DVD/CD Rom drives.This is ok right? What I can't understand is the cd rom runs my dvd's but not any other form of a cd like music or software, it just freezes.

Any ideas how I can fix this?

Thanks,
Kevin

Hi, I have windows xp pro. Yes the DVD's will run in both my power dvd as well as windows media 10 player, just my regular cd's won't. I'm beginning to think maybe this is strictly a dvd player?

Any help will be appreciated.

Kevin

giving it a cleaning FIRST, is the easiest thing to check before dwelving into everything else. Sure, it may be a bad drive, did you try placing a bootable CD rom and see if the drive recognizes the CD on reboot? If NOT then it's probably the drive, it may be a bad cable, it could be the lens is bad, replace the drive. It may be the firmware, update, or if no good, replace drive. But if you are satisfied going this route then good luck:)

Paul

Its a small program that can tell you almost everything that is on your computer and its free. http://www.download.com/Belarc-Advisor/3000-2094_4-10525566.html?tag=lst-0-1 Just download, install, run it and maybe print it.
Only a suggestion,
Eddie

As you say, a number of people having the same issues.

One of them posted a link to a Sony site with a resolution, but apparently that was only for US customers?

However, there was a post that made me think. It was this;
"I turned off the DMA setting on one of my 2 drives and I can now access Music CD's in Explorer and also rip to MP3's but playback of the actual disc is no good as without DMA it judders all the way through. The one with DMA still set will not play Music or access any music disc without a lock up. Still, progress of sorts. Anybody have any comments?"

Bob Proffitt, a very knowledgeable Moderator in these forums, (I will never reach his standard), often suggests to people that they "switch" DMA settings to PIO and back again to DMA. Now, I have to say, I have never understood what changing DMA to PIO and back again means or does, but the fact that the poster in that forum did this may be significant. The trouble is, he didn't go the whole 10 yards. He changed DMA to PIO and got access to his music CD's, but he never changed them back!

I wonder if this simple procedure would solve your problem? This Microsoft article tells you where to find the settings;
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310751

As I remember Bob saying, it is a simple act. Change DMA to PIO, then back again. Nothing more than that, (except maybe click Apply/OK).

It's worth a try.

Mark

If you reset CMOS settings to default after rehooking, this will help to properly detect device.

Paul