My Computer Is Still A Booger
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By Your Powers Combined... Join Date: 2002-12-20 Member: 11244Members
By Your Powers Combined... Join Date: 2002-12-20 Member: 11244Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">But this time it's just the CD drives!</div> Alrighty, so even after my many trials and tribulations with this computer: reformatting, reinstalling XP, getting a new sound card and reainstalling the drivers for it several times, this machine don't wanna work!
Now I'm having some very peculiar problems with my CD drives. Not exactly fatal problems, but very inconvenient. Basically, the summation of the problem is that when I take a CD out (say, a CD full of video files) and put in a new CD (any CD, even blank) my computer does not register that I took out the old Cd and put in a new one, and I can still play the video files on the old CD. Maybe I'm just stupid, but shouldn;t that be IMPOSSIBLE?!?! This is especially inconvenient when I'm installing game or something that requires more than 1 CD, which is basically impossible since it usually take a full restart to get my comp to register that there is a differnet CD in the drive. And also, sometimes some things just won't work at all, even after I restart. For example, today I was tryiing to watch an episode of MST3K which I KNOW works, but nothing would play it from the CD. I tried to copy it onto my HD, but it gave me an error and told me that the "Parameter is bad." I know this is not a problem with just one of my drives, becuase I tried it with both of them and they both act the same. Does anyone know what the heck is going on?!?!?
Now I'm having some very peculiar problems with my CD drives. Not exactly fatal problems, but very inconvenient. Basically, the summation of the problem is that when I take a CD out (say, a CD full of video files) and put in a new CD (any CD, even blank) my computer does not register that I took out the old Cd and put in a new one, and I can still play the video files on the old CD. Maybe I'm just stupid, but shouldn;t that be IMPOSSIBLE?!?! This is especially inconvenient when I'm installing game or something that requires more than 1 CD, which is basically impossible since it usually take a full restart to get my comp to register that there is a differnet CD in the drive. And also, sometimes some things just won't work at all, even after I restart. For example, today I was tryiing to watch an episode of MST3K which I KNOW works, but nothing would play it from the CD. I tried to copy it onto my HD, but it gave me an error and told me that the "Parameter is bad." I know this is not a problem with just one of my drives, becuase I tried it with both of them and they both act the same. Does anyone know what the heck is going on?!?!?
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Now I'm having some very peculiar problems with my CD drives. Not exactly fatal problems, but very inconvenient. Basically, the summation of the problem is that when I take a CD out (say, a CD full of video files) and put in a new CD (any CD, even blank) my computer does not register that I took out the old Cd and put in a new one, and I can still play the video files on the old CD. Maybe I'm just stupid, but shouldn;t that be IMPOSSIBLE?!?! This is especially inconvenient when I'm installing game or something that requires more than 1 CD, which is basically impossible since it usually take a full restart to get my comp to register that there is a differnet CD in the drive. And also, sometimes some things just won't work at all, even after I restart. For example, today I was tryiing to watch an episode of MST3K which I KNOW works, but nothing would play it from the CD. I tried to copy it onto my HD, but it gave me an error and told me that the "Parameter is bad." I know this is not a problem with just one of my drives, becuase I tried it with both of them and they both act the same. Does anyone know what the heck is going on?!?!? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Depending on the video player and other software you use, it's quite possible that the files are being cached for speed. Does the same thing happen with just regular old data files?
Post the exact error message (or even better, a screenshot), as well as all of your hardware info. Also, did the CD-ROM drive come with specific vendor drivers or does it just use the MS ones? Do you know the exact make and model of the CD-ROM? I've tried to do a little googling on CD-ROM mounting problems and all I get is 85 bajillion pages of Linux issues <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> .
Post the exact error message (or even better, a screenshot), as well as all of your hardware info. Also, did the CD-ROM drive come with specific vendor drivers or does it just use the MS ones? Do you know the exact make and model of the CD-ROM? I've tried to do a little googling on CD-ROM mounting problems and all I get is 85 bajillion pages of Linux issues <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> . <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yes, it does the same thing with data files as well. As for the error message, it reads exactly "Could not copy because the parameter was bad" I went to take a screeny and apparently whatever is wrong with the damned thig has changed in the past 10 minutes..............grr..............well ok there's still something wrong. And apparently just now changing CDs for purposes of screenshots caused explorer to crash but I can't end the process.......so now I gotta reboot. I'll have those screenies up in a few minutes though.
I tried testing some of the other video files that were on the list, none of them worked at all, except the one I tried last time, the Lords Of Acid video, but instead of that AMV, this AMV popped up Notice that the clip and the screen say different things. I am friggin stumped. WTH?!?!?
Will I sound like an idiot if I just say windows? Well we all know I always sound like an idiot anyways.
But seriously, all it says is that it's version 5.1.2535.0 of the driver "provided by microsft" It's dated 7/1/2001, and that does seem a bit old now that I think of it......
I've used Nero for years and never had this occur, but there's always a first time...
Well thats your problem right there! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->