Having Problems w/ my PC, need help

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Posted by Psionic on Jan-09-2004 21:17:

Having Problems w/ my PC, need help

For some reason, my CD drive is not recognizing CDs that I put in (i.e. the CD doesn't play). Anyone know what I can do? I'm not getting any error message, it's just that it won't start playing a CD. Plus if I look at the drive itself it doesn't show that it's there.

Posted by Floorfiller on Jan-09-2004 21:23:

hmmm...how new is the cd?? could it be some kind of new security type thing that is meant to keep people from burning them???

Posted by TeKnoHe@d2025 on Jan-09-2004 21:33:

Are you putting it in a CD-ROM drive? I know that if I put a CD-R in my old 1999 DVD-ROM drive it doesn't reconize it.

Posted by Psionic on Jan-09-2004 21:40:

I have both a CD and DVD rom drive. I thought that too w/ the CD, but I put Magik 4 in and nothing happened either.

By the way, if it helps, I'm running on Windows 98.

Posted by Psionic on Jan-09-2004 21:52:

Ok, somehow I got the CD-ROM drive to recognize the CD. However, when I play it, no music is coming out (it's mute). I put the volume controls for everything the highest possible, but nothing's working.

Posted by whiskers on Jan-09-2004 22:08:

quote:
Originally posted by Galapidate
Ok, somehow I got the CD-ROM drive to recognize the CD. However, when I play it, no music is coming out (it's mute). I put the volume controls for everything the highest possible, but nothing's working.

i had both of these problems

go to hardware manager
right click your CD rom drive
select properties
go to the properties tab
check "enable digital cd audio for this device" box if there is one.
***EDIT* RESTART!!!

another problem is my CD ROM doesn't recognize any CDs if i don't boot with a CD in the drive, then it seems to take any CD and not bitch about it.

Posted by Psionic on Jan-09-2004 22:20:

Where is Hardware Manager?

Posted by KilldaDJ on Jan-09-2004 22:25:

quote:
Originally posted by Galapidate
Where is Hardware Manager?

i think he means the multimedia icon in control panel

Posted by Psionic on Jan-09-2004 22:28:

Ok, found what he was talking about, but the box is greyed out. How do I ungrey it?

Posted by Psionic on Jan-10-2004 00:04:

Please guys, someone help me I want to be able to play my CDs on my PC

Posted by DigiNut on Jan-10-2004 00:07:

quote:
Originally posted by Galapidate
Ok, somehow I got the CD-ROM drive to recognize the CD. However, when I play it, no music is coming out (it's mute). I put the volume controls for everything the highest possible, but nothing's working.

Whiskers might be right, but if the box is greyed out, you might not have digital audio at all on it... so...

Have you tried plugging earphones into the CD-ROM drive to see if you get sound that way?

I think what's most likely the case is that the CD-ROM drive isn't connected internally to your sound card, so you can't get sound externally. If that's the case, then you need to open up the case and run an audio connector between the two.

Posted by Psionic on Jan-10-2004 00:35:

Turns out that is what's happening. I plugged a pair of headphones into the jack on the CD-ROM drive itself and I hear it playing.

But, I've been able to play the CD on my PC (with the music coming from the PC speakers) before. Could the cable between the drive and the sound card have gotten disconnected somehow? I haven't touched the insides of my PC for awhile, so I don't know how last week I could play a CD with the PC speakers, yet today I couldn't.

Posted by Danny Ocean on Jan-10-2004 02:56:

i bet the audio cable is disconnected inside your PC, it happened to me once, check all the connections there.,

Posted by Rostros on Jan-10-2004 12:14:

quote:
Originally posted by albertoR
i bet the audio cable is disconnected inside your PC, it happened to me once, check all the connections there.,

i would start from there, also check that your speakers ar plugged in common mistake.