[RESOLVED] CDROM will not work

[Charley Bates]

I'm having problems with my CD-Rom wanting to install anything on my computer. What it does, is when I put the CD in the cd-rom, the installation screen comes up just fine with auto detect. But then when I choose install it you hear it start spinning and then it goes out. It does it over and over again untill I open the CD-Rom and and take the CD out. I thought it was the CD-Rom at first, went and bought another one today. Nope, same problem. I replaced the cables...nothing. I'm kind of leaning toward either software problem? or mabye power supply problem. Is there a way I can find out which one it is without having to replace the PS or reinstall windows? Thats going to be a real pain on either part. Oh yeah, and music CD's work fine, it's just when I go to install any type of software. It just sounds like the CD-Rom is dying out when it tries to read the CD when I'm installing something, so I would think maybe the PS? Let me know anything I can do to try to fix this problem. Thanks

[JMP1226]

What Operating system are you using?

[Charley Bates]

I'm using 98. I'm also using Creative 52x CD-Rom. I believe I have an old 4x somewhere in my house. I think I'm going to try to find it and put that in my system to see if I just have 2 defective CD-Roms or if it is for sure something else. I don't know what could have caused this. It all worked fine until yesterday. I didn't install any new software, did anything to the configuration, or anything. I just went to install a new game and BAMMM, now it doesn't work.

[JMP1226]

I have seen that before... Just for a suggestion check to see what your system resources are... Sometimes I have seen that affect the install from the CDR before... If it is low take some stuff out of your start-up and reboot to see if it works...

[condor]

Creative 52x CD-ROM don't work in UDMA mode.

go to your BIOS and Disable the UDMA Support for whichever Channel this CD-ROM is on.

(i.e Secondary Master ..)



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