CD audio stopped playing

Hi y'all

My system has recently stopped recognising/playing audio
CDs. I know this is quite a common problem with XP but
cannot for the life of me find a solution beyond
re-installing XP. The drive letters seem all in synch and
the sound is working when I play MP3s on my hard drive or
sound in games so it's not that. I think I need to
reinstall the MCI CD Audio bit of the Media Control devices
but cannot fibd how to do this - I've tried the
troubleshooter but its suggested tricks don't work. Can
anyone help/advise? I'm running a Dell Dimension 4500 with
a Creative Soundblaster Live! series card inside.

Thanks in advance

Selena Ulrich

This just happened to me, too...

I've got a Hercules Fortissimo 3, and WinXP.
There is no way in the device manager to reinstall the
MCI device, as far as I can find, since it can't be
uninstalled, and "update driver" doesn't fix anything.

The problem seemed to start after I removed my old 2x DVD
and 40x CD-ROM, and replaced them with a single 16x DVD...

Reinstalling windows overtop of the existing installation
does not solve the problem.



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>-----Original Message-----
>Hi y'all
>
>My system has recently stopped recognising/playing audio
>CDs. I know this is quite a common problem with XP but
>cannot for the life of me find a solution beyond
>re-installing XP. The drive letters seem all in synch
and
>the sound is working when I play MP3s on my hard drive
or
>sound in games so it's not that. I think I need to
>reinstall the MCI CD Audio bit of the Media Control
devices
>but cannot fibd how to do this - I've tried the
>troubleshooter but its suggested tricks don't work. Can
>anyone help/advise? I'm running a Dell Dimension 4500
with
>a Creative Soundblaster Live! series card inside.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Selena Ulrich
>.
>

I believe to reinstall the MCI driver, you'd just reinstall the driver for
the CD-ROM drive.

And
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\MCI32
value "CDAudio" should be "mcicda.dll", but that's likely naught to do with
what's ailing your system.

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"Selena" <seelena.ulrich@dial.pipex.com> wrote in message
news:069601c364b4$bae693b0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi y'all
>
> My system has recently stopped recognising/playing audio
> CDs. I know this is quite a common problem with XP but
> cannot for the life of me find a solution beyond
> re-installing XP. The drive letters seem all in synch and
> the sound is working when I play MP3s on my hard drive or
> sound in games so it's not that. I think I need to
> reinstall the MCI CD Audio bit of the Media Control devices
> but cannot fibd how to do this - I've tried the
> troubleshooter but its suggested tricks don't work. Can
> anyone help/advise? I'm running a Dell Dimension 4500 with
> a Creative Soundblaster Live! series card inside.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Selena Ulrich