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Subject: CD-Rom Troubles
Posted by: Bond, James Bond
- [367482022] Sat, Aug 21, 2004, 00:40
My CD-Rom is unable to load any of my games. When I put a game in, it does all the whirling and whatnot but then doesn't come up on the screen. What do I need to check? |
| 1 | Perm Dude
ID: 2343587
Sat, Aug 21, 2004, 00:59
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Can you read other CDs in the drive? What happens when you put a music CD in, for instance?
The drive might just need to be replaced.
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| 2 | KTx
ID: 36751175
Sat, Aug 21, 2004, 03:45
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did it just begin to do this all of a sudden?
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| 3 | Bond, James Bond
ID: 367482022
Sat, Aug 21, 2004, 08:54
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Music CD's are fine. Just games. Strange. It's been like this for a few months but I'm just now getting around to finding out what's wrong.
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| 4 | PuNk42AE
Donor
ID: 036635522
Sat, Aug 21, 2004, 09:15
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Try getting Adaware or something like that if you don't have it already. Could be spyware acting up or something. What happens when you click on D: or whatever one your CD is? Just spins and nothing pops up? And what about if you click on a game that requires the cd to play? When you open it does it say the disk isn't in the drive?
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| 5 | Mike D
Sustainer
ID: 041831612
Sat, Aug 21, 2004, 09:30
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Try Windows Explorer, right click on the CD Drive and choose Properties. Look for the Auto Play settings and see if they need to be tewaked. This was a common problem years ago when plug and play, auto play, etc, were not prevalent.
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| 6 | Bond, James Bond
ID: 367482022
Sat, Aug 21, 2004, 09:52
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Have Adaware. Everything looks kosher. I have a DVD drive on D: and a DVD/CD-RW drive on E:
I looked at the Auto Play Settings as you suggested and I haven't got a clue what the settings mean. I guess you could say I'm very technically-challenged.
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| 7 | Mike D
Sustainer
ID: 041831612
Sat, Aug 21, 2004, 10:05
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Depending on what Operating System you are using, you should see something like this:
"Select a content type and choose an action you want Windows to perform automatically."
You can then choose music, games, etc....and select whether to open them etc....there may be an auto play tab depending.
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| 8 | Bond, James Bond
ID: 367482022
Sat, Aug 21, 2004, 10:22
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I'm using Windows XP.
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| 9 | youngroman
ID: 206491016
Sat, Aug 21, 2004, 11:05
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could it be some copy-protected-cd's? a few months ago I had a similiar problem with a few games. I had an older CD-RW-drive from Plextor. I got a DVD/CD-RW-drive from a friend and that one is working fine with the cd's.
currently a lot of games in europe (where I live) have no copy-protection because of such compatibility-problems.
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| 10 | Mike D
Sustainer
ID: 041831612
Sat, Aug 21, 2004, 11:11
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Bond, #7 is quoted from XP, should you should be able to find and follow those instructions.
What is the speed of your CD Rom drive, and are the games old, new, etc?
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| 11 | Bond, James Bond
ID: 367482022
Sat, Aug 21, 2004, 13:24
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Ok, I've garnered some success. Was able to play the game of "Life" with the kiddos. However when I took the game out of the CD drive and reentered it (just to see if it was indeed working properly), it states that I have to re-install. Why is that?
Where oh where is "Q" when you need him? ;)
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| 12 | Mike D
Sustainer
ID: 041831612
Sat, Aug 21, 2004, 14:12
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Unless you exited the game improperly (like by just opening it during the game), you shouldn't have to re-install it. But it only takes a few seconds anyway.
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