cdrom problems

Here's a couple of things I would try. One, clean the cd with a tissue, making sure to remove any dirt or dust. Check for scratches on the cd near the hub or center, this can cause the cd to not be read. Also, move the cd a bit on the actual cd player if it has play. What I mean is sometimes you can move a cd a bit on the platter, try that when you put it in. HTH.

I had the opposite problem. My CD-ROM would play music but not read data CDs. I cleaned the CD drive and that solved the problem.

Has it ever played music cds? What it sounds like is you are trying to play music cds on a cd drive that is set as a slave. Did you install a second cd drive? If cleaning doesn't work, the first thing to do is always make sure you have the latestdrivers (a good idea in any case!). But you may want to open the case and check the jumper settings on your cd drive. Make sure that if this is the only cd drive that you have in your computer, then that it is set to run in master mode, and if youhave two and want to use this cd drive for music cds make sure this one is master and the other a slave. Hope this helps.

One other thing that it might be is that the CD is just incompatible with the CD-ROM due to low reflectivity or a different format. The 4X CD-ROM's are normally compatible with just about everything, but the new longer CD's (80 min) might give it trouble. If playing that particular CD is a big deal, I'd recommend picking up a faster CD-ROM (Actually, I'd recommend that in any case :).

You failed to mention if the CD you are playing is burned or an original. Very old CD-ROMS 2X, 4X, even some 8X's will not run a burned CD. You should really upgrade your I agree with the above post you need to upgrade that drive. You can pickup a good 32 or 40X for like $30.

check device manager for yellow ? or yellow !!..remove the devices that have them and restart..your pc will pick up new hardware and inform u on the best driver or device to be installed on your pc..the device may not have installed correctly or have been damaged..this will fix that

check device manager for yellow ? or yellow !!..remove the devices that have them and restart..your pc will pick up new hardware and inform u on the best driver or device to be installed on your pc..the device may not have installed correctly or have been damaged..this will fix that..it sound like your pc isnt reading your cd rom

check device manager for yellow ? or yellow !!..remove the devices that have them and restart..your pc will pick up new hardware and inform u on the best driver or device to be installed on your pc..the device may not have installed correctly or have been damaged..this will fix that..it sound like your pc isnt reading your cd rom

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