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| Thread ID: 29616 | 2003-01-26 07:06:00 | Another durned cd player problem | paradox (1082) | Press F1 |
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| 116675 | 2003-01-26 07:06:00 | Hi..My cd player is getting old but that's no excuse for this odd behaviour. When a music cd starts there is no sign of a player opening up. But the music plays ok. If I open Winamp manually there's no sign of action even tho its "always on top" option is checked. I've just done some serious housekeeping including deleting Windows Media Player (which left a very basic player in that folder, and that's not in action with the music either.) Is there a way for me to trace what player is in action? It's not playing on the little media player in the windows folder either. Thanks for any help...Ken Win 98..celeron333a..64m ram 2gig hd |
paradox (1082) | ||
| 116676 | 2003-01-26 08:59:00 | Go to Explorer/View/folder Options/file types, scroll down to audio CD and highlight. Look to see the file listed under "opens with". That will tell you what program is playing your CDs. e.g If it says CDPLAYER it is using windows natice CD player and is opening CDPLAYER.EXE Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 116677 | 2003-01-26 09:00:00 | Oops, I meant Windows native CD player as supplied with W98. | Billy T (70) | ||
| 116678 | 2003-01-26 10:33:00 | Billy T...Thanks for the reply. You sent me to the right place. The CD player entry was a mess...had two entries for cdplayer, one blank and the other damaged I think because I removed and re did it to winamp and that seems to have done the job, at least for files which will now start up winamp if I click on them. I still can't get my player to work automatically when the cd is loaded in. I've looked in Device manager and the "auto insert notification" box is ticked. Any suggestions? Cheers...Ken |
paradox (1082) | ||
| 116679 | 2003-01-26 21:43:00 | Okay Ken You are travelling a path I struggled down not long ago. The answer is in the CDPLAYER help file, but to save you time, go back to the folder options/file types box, highlight Audio CD again, click Edit and enter Play in the Actions Box. Note that it must be entered in bold type or it won't work. Go figure! :| Cheers Billy 8-{) ?:| :D |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 116680 | 2003-01-28 09:37:00 | Billy-T...Well, thanks a million..I would never have got on to that without your help. Still on topic I hope, if you have time please comment on the following. My 3 year old CD-Rom player is making a slightly worrying noise, a fluttering noise that flickers at about the same rate as the little light on the front of the case during data transfer. Varies in volume from quite sofly to quite a bit louder depending on the disk in use. File transfers sometimes fail but the same files go through ok in my CD-RW. Maybe the CD-Rom is on it's way south but my concern is that it may eat disk, like say my Win 98 disk. Is that possible? Anyway...thanks a bunch...Ken |
paradox (1082) | ||
| 116681 | 2003-01-28 20:18:00 | > but my concern is that it may eat disk, like say my Win 98 disk . Is that possible? YES!! A CD-ROM player most certainly can destroy your disks if it is faulty . One of our regulars had his Office CD chewed up by his player and had quite a job getting a replacement for it without having to purchasing the program again . It annoys me that CD-ROM and CD-R/W players aren't lasting very long these days - two to three years average use is not getting a good run out of them in my opinion but there isn't much you can do about it . |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 116682 | 2003-01-28 20:39:00 | Hmmm, well I just found the post I was looking for and it's actually a different problem to yours so no need to panic too much! The thread is here ( . pcworld . co . nz/thread . jsp?forum=1&thread=24125&message=77927" target="_blank">pressf1 . pcworld . co . nz) and it was a CD-RW writer that got too hot . All the same, I would be wary about trusting my program disks in a dodgy player if it were me . |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 116683 | 2003-01-29 00:12:00 | Hi Paradox Sorry, I couldn't respond until now, the dreaded login bug was keeping me out. Any rise in mechanical noise from your CD rom suggests that the CD or associated drive mechanism are possible out of balance or suffering bearing type failures (or both) I don't think your CDs are at risk as it would take a heat problem as Susan mentioned or a major mechanical failure that allowed the laser to physically contact the surface of the disk to cause real damage. Any out of balance or mechanical disturnabce could certainly stop your computer from reading files so it sounds like you are heading to a new CD Rom. Before you do thopugh, are all CDs affected or just one? If it is only one, do you have any stickers or labels on it that might upset the balance? It doesn't take much to get a CD vibrating at the RPM they run. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 116684 | 2003-01-30 09:45:00 | Thanks to all for the replies... Billy-T...Doesn't make noise on every cd...some soflty and some quite loud. And not much good if it fails to read a file sometimes. I think that for peace of mind I'll replace the drive. I may even take a deep breath and make it my first install. And an even deeper breath and buy one on-line. Any suggestions re an online parts site that is reliable and maybe even helpfull to an installation newbie? Thanks again for the help...Ken |
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