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by legendsofbatman

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I am installing a ton of programs on my desktop, and have come across a few oddities.
While trying to copy songs (legit music from original CDs) to my hard drive, the DVD player would occasionally play a different song, from a different CD.
Likewise, when installing some games, it'll try to install a different game. In this case, it wants to install a Madden Football game. Actually, it's wanted to install Madden with several different games.
Any thoughts on this? My best guess is that game is imbedded on the lens somehow? But, even if it is, it doesnt do this all the time.
Very strange to me.
Thanks in advance for any ideas.

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by oh smeg

And how heavily is the system being used?

The logical thing is that when the wrong item is selected to do whatever it has somehow been given priority over what is being done and in the case of installing Programs that process has started and needs to be finished before you can continue with the next one.

The possibility that somehow the DVD Reader is being sent the wrong signals isn't possible as they read reflected light so if they are reading a different Disc and try to install a program different to what is in the Optical Drive there is either the exact same data written to the Optical Disc or that process has not completed successfully and needs to either finish or be stopped.

As for playing the wrong song if that song is on that CD it's OK but if it is on another CD there is something very wrong going on here or whatever is playing the song is playing in the Background while ripping in the forground. ;)

Col

by legendsofbatman

I'm running Windows 7 32-bit. But, it happened under Vista as well. I dont recall this happening under XP.

When I was ripping CD's to my hard drive (using media player) it did indeed playing songs from other CDs.

I've been installing tons of programs on my hard drive; mostly games (yeah; probably not a great idea; but...) Ive been installing them somewhat alphabetically; so, EA Sports Madden is "E" and I'm down to "S" with plenty of installations (and time) between. So, why suddenly when I installed "The Sims" and finding Madden, well, you can see the surprise.

Just weird to me. Why Madden would be "stuck" is weird to me.

by oh smeg

I had a Rush Job to get a blown system back into service as it was used to play music at a Club.

Not much involved the Core OS some minor Office Apps and the Internet of course as well as 4 MP3 Players. What should have been a easy job was completely messed up when I installed 3 of the 4 MP3 Players without rebooting. When the system restarted there was no Audio which sort of defeated the purpose of the rebuild somewhat.

When I eventually got the message and installed one Program at a time and rebooted there was no problem but when I installed more than one program at a time to save time it didn't work, you couldn't revive the sound and it need to be started from scratch again. Needless to say the Rush Job took quite a bit longer than it should have and it did miss one weekends work. ;)

Col

by the scummy one

is that the processes arent completing, and when the installer opens up again, it continues trying to install the program that never finished. Likely the cause is that the installer is not finishing, or that the system resources are too low for the amount of items being worked on.
Is the system being rebooted between installs? Are you trying to rip music at the same time as installing games? Basically, are you over-tasking the system?

Slow down a bit, I know that you want everything there and working, but getting over-zealous may be the biggest problem being faced.

by legendsofbatman

No, I'm not ripping music and installing. Low resources could do it. I was working on a ZD Affinity system from Costco (but, ended up returning that) and now have a souped up EMachines (new powersupply, video card, and huge 1.5 TB HD); but, still has EMachines cheap mobo, ram and cpu. I don't usually reboot unless I'm told to; or, unless I think I need to.
I do tend to overwork my system; but generally not while doing installations. But, I have.

I will try reinstalling that Madden game; make sure it is installed properly. There must be some reason it wants to come up several weeks later; and what you guys have said seems to make me think it installed incorrectly.

Thanks. Hopefully this fixes that.

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