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varois83
Hi
I own an aging Dell dimension 8200. Pentium 4 at 1.8 ghz. Running
windows XP home edition. HD has 127 GB available. 768 MB RAM.
My brother printer recently died, I purchase a new HP printer to
replace it.
I uninstalled the brother printer using the control panel and when I
went to load the HP CD-ROM it wouldn't autostart.
I tried my DVD-ROM drive which usually plays CD-ROM as well to no
avail. I tried other CD-ROM's which worked in the past to no avail (My
camera software and turbotax for example) and they don't work either.
I went into "My computer" to double click both these drives manually
and get messages telling me "To insert disc in device" while the discs
are in there.
I also went into "File-->properties-->autoplay" of both these devices
to make sure they were set on "autoplay".
I disabled in control panel-->system-->hardware-->device manager my CD-
ROM drive and restarted windows, re enabled the CD-ROM drive to no
avail.
One funny thing I load some of my own made "CD-R's" with data and
pictures and they autoplay fine.
I have installed the HP printer by downloading the software from the
HP site and it runs fine.
I am just wondering what is wrong with both my CD-ROM and DVD-ROM
drives?
Thanks a lot
Patrick
I own an aging Dell dimension 8200. Pentium 4 at 1.8 ghz. Running
windows XP home edition. HD has 127 GB available. 768 MB RAM.
My brother printer recently died, I purchase a new HP printer to
replace it.
I uninstalled the brother printer using the control panel and when I
went to load the HP CD-ROM it wouldn't autostart.
I tried my DVD-ROM drive which usually plays CD-ROM as well to no
avail. I tried other CD-ROM's which worked in the past to no avail (My
camera software and turbotax for example) and they don't work either.
I went into "My computer" to double click both these drives manually
and get messages telling me "To insert disc in device" while the discs
are in there.
I also went into "File-->properties-->autoplay" of both these devices
to make sure they were set on "autoplay".
I disabled in control panel-->system-->hardware-->device manager my CD-
ROM drive and restarted windows, re enabled the CD-ROM drive to no
avail.
One funny thing I load some of my own made "CD-R's" with data and
pictures and they autoplay fine.
I have installed the HP printer by downloading the software from the
HP site and it runs fine.
I am just wondering what is wrong with both my CD-ROM and DVD-ROM
drives?
Thanks a lot
Patrick