hello, I've been trying to get an old PB 910 to read the cd with no luck ( the PB group has been trying to help me solve this also). It is win 98 and the cd flashes as power up starts and displays itself on the initial boot screen. The cd is connected to its own 40 pin ribbon and is listed as...

i have an old dellgx1 with a pentiunm 2 processor that won't recognize the disk player. it says no dvd player installed and i have checked plug in and even replaced it with another player with no luck. i can't load any programs like a printer ect. can anyone help? i am no computer expert and...

I uninstalled Winamp because it started to continously crashed my computer after about 10 minutes of play. This never happened in the previous several years, don't know what changed to cause it. Now , when I put in a music CD Windows still looks for Winamp. How do I change the default player back...

I'm just curious why the Windows CD Player does not play sound for me. Even after a fresh install, it doesn't. WMP has sound! What's the big deal with CD Player? I've disabled audio from the BIOS to let a new sound card work properly. It seems to me that this might have been the cause,...

The CD drive in my Inspiron 7000 reads and opens things like pdf files, but will not play commercial or burned CDs. WinMediaPlayer message says it cannot handle this type file (.cda) Sometimes another message says, "Unable to find file". I re-installed WMPlayer, check all the file associations,...

The CD drive in my Inspiron 7000 reads and opens things like pdf files, but will not play commercial or burned CDs. WinMediaPlayer message says it cannot handle this type file (.cda) Sometimes another message says, "Unable to find file". I re-installed WMPlayer, check all the file associations,...

I presently have two CD drives installed on my computer - Plextor CD-R PX-W1210A and Samsung CD-Rom SCR-3230. I also have an IOMEGA ZIP 100 drive on this system in addition to a floppy A drive and the hard drive. Here is the layout for these devices as noted in the BIOS: Primary Master -...

The read speed on my CD/DVD was set at device default from the factory. I was tinkering around and changed it to 4x. I can change it back to device default, but as soon as I hit the apply button, it jumps back to 4x. Any help is appreciated.

After re-formatting hard drive and re-loading Windows98 my cd rom reads data cd's as an audio cd. This is a old PC with a 52 speed cdr. It also has Nero 6 loaded on it. I have searched the Internet and found that others have had the same issue but no solutions. Does anyone have an idea on this?...

My son messed up the cd rom. It wouldn't eject a cd when I pressed the eject button, so I used a paperclip and managed to open the cd player and got the CD out. The CD was not in the circular housing correctly; that is the reason it wouldn't eject. Now I can't play a CD. Nothing happens when I...

i have one CD-ROM and one CD-RW Drivers, i am using WIN98 these 2 drivers can be detected by the main board properly. In WIN98 i also can see their icons "E:" and "F:" inside "my computer", but when i insert a disc they are both no response. what problem with them?

it was working, but now disapeared (?) and now it's not detected by the win 98 could anybody help me ? Many thanks.

I have installed a new motherboard and now my computer does not list my CD-ROM. It appears in the CMOS correctly identified under IDE Secondary Master, but after fully booting the drive does not appear under My Computer nor is it available to "explore". What did I screw up??

When I put a cd into my drive, I get an error message saying, "A fatal exception 0E has ocurred at 0028:00000001. The current program will now terminate." What does this mean?

I have installed a new motherboard and now my CD ROM drive is not recognized. The CD-ROM is properly identified in the CMOS as IDE Secondary MAster, but after fully booting it does not appear anywhere. What have I screwed up?

I installed a new motherboard and everything went ok, except when I boot up my CD-ROM drive is not available. It appears in the CMOS settings under IDE Secondary Master, but it isn't available after the system fully boots. What have I missed doing?

Initially my cd rom door would not open then once open would not close then the green light came on and stayed on eventually it stopped altogether and now wont even show up in device manager or anywhere else except once in MS DOS safe mode. After numerous attempts to relocate and fix it i still...

My son deleted the CD ROM icon from my computer, how can I bring it back?

Just did a clean installation of w98se using the cd rom drive as secondary master and there seems to be no problem with the cd rom drive After installating all the necessary drivers, softwaree etc, I attached a secondary slave (cd rw) and now when I try to install something, the cd rom drive it...

I have tried all the ideas in this discussion group and still can't read from my cd rom. The CD_RW Rom worked previously. I think the problem was the result of downloading Media Player 9 which I have uninstalled. I switched CD-RW rom with one that is working in another machine and had the...