Weird CD-ROM problem.

[Rags]

Paul, that was for the 40X40 drive only. It was mostly a HiVal distributed item. Chances are it doesn't say Kenwood on it anywhere but the little sticker underneath. I doubt many people will even know they have recourse

Rags

[Mark F]

40 - 42x w-h-a-t ?

Opps

Mark F.

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OH NO, my retractable cup holder swallowed a DVD...
and burped out a movie

[Raptor^]

I had a CD-ROM (slightly broken after I snapped the tray out of it in a drunken stupor ) that would make a noise like a jet engine and make my comp shake like crazy for a while, then make a loud snapping noise and stop while accessing certain CDs.

I tracked this down to CDs that were difficult to read (some CDRs for example), but the main problem was with Safedisc protected stuff. The bad sectors on the CD mess with the drives controller somehow. This also causes the Safedisc copy protect to fail 99% of the time (great a copy protect that only works with certain CD drives...). If you get a message box with that red cross and a message along the lines of 'Please insert the original CD and restart the application', I bet this is your problem.

The only way round it I found was to replace the drive, but in your case I suspect the controller on your old motherboard is at fault as you've seen it with many CD drives.

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P3-700E, Abit BF6, G400 MAX, 8.6 gig Seagate, 8.6 gig WD, SBLive 1024, 256Mb PC100... Mouse, Keyb, Stuff

[RAB]

The first thing to always try for any CD-ROM problem is to turn off DMA in its properties. If that doesn't work, keep DMA off until you find a fix.

One other trick you might try, but I don't know how it will affect your problem. It seems to help with my old CD-ROM drive a little. Restart in DOS mode and edit the C:\MSDOS.SYS file changing DoubleBuffer=1 to DoubleBuffer=0. Before you edit, at the DOS prompt you will have to type "attrib -r-h-s c:\msdos.sys" first to make the file editable since its a system file. If you've never used DOS edit, just type "edit c:\msdos.sys" and the DOS edit program will come up with the file ready to edit. After you edit and save it type "attrib +r+h+s c:\msdos.sys" to make it a hidden system file again. Now you can restart in normal Windows mode. Since this is a system file, it must be done in DOS mode and not from Windows.

Syssoft Sandra kept telling me to remove Double Buffer and it does seem to keep CD's from spinning endlessly.

RAB

[This message has been edited by RAB (edited 31 August 2000).]