CD Drive Problem

[Roger Denison]

I have encountered a little problem that has even the Dell
tech support baffled. Before I resort to reinstalling
Win2K, and wanted to present this problem to the newsgroup
for input.

For some reason, and I can't pinpoint a time, my CD drive
will not play audio CDs. It has worked in the past. It
is a combo DVD/CD drive and the DVDs and CD-ROMs work fine
but the audio CDs do nothing. When I look at the drive in
Windows Explorer I can see all the 'tracks' listed but
clicking them does nothing except return the
error: "Windows Media Player cannot find the specified
file." I have the same problem regardless of whether I
use WinMP, WinAmp, or RealPlayer.

The problem isn't with the sound card because I can play
wav and mp3 files without a problem. I swapped CD drives
with a known good drive and I still have the problem. I
can take my CD drive and put it in another laptop and the
audio CD runs okay. I have tried multiple CDs (store
bought, not self burned).

I have uninstalled and reinstalled drivers for both the
audio card and the drive. In the Properties section of
the CD Drive I have checked 'Enable digital CD audio for
this CD-ROM device'. Dell has even sent a rep out to
replace the motherboard. Still nothing.

I am running Win2Kpro with SP4 on a Dell Latitude C600
laptop. Pentium III running at 750MHz. Is there
something in the registry that could affect this? Help!
(before I have to pull out the restore disk)

Roger.

 

[mes]

i just reinstalled win 2k and can not access my nec dvd/cd
player.
in fact when i put a music cd into the drive explorer not
only cannot read the drive, it locks up enough that i have
to reboot
yuk
did you get anywhere with your problem

 

[MaryQuiteContrary]

There have been new innovations by the music industry to prevent music CDs
from playing on computers. Perhaps these disks are some of those. It's
grasping at straws but you are having trouble with multiple players playing
cds. Download and try Musicmatch free player. Also, in the Start, run type
mplayer2 to call up the old mplayer and see if it works. You will have to
point it to your cd.