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January 16th, 2004 15:00
CD-ROM issue or WinME issue?
I will be upgrading this machine shortly to WinXP Pro, so this may be a moot point. However, I've had issues with playing audio CD's since the machine was new a 2 years ago. I've got a Dimension 4100 with a LG CRD-8482B CDROM running on the illegitimate child of Windows. I can put in an audio CD (mostly commercial CD's, not so much with MP3 CD's), and the disc will play. However, the ROM will lock up randomly. I can sometimes play a whole CD. Sometimes it will lock up every 3rd or 4th song. When it does this, the access light on the ROM is steady on, and the audio is gone. However, the media player that it was playing on, still acts as if it's playing the song (which is weird to have it say a song is 2:45, and see 3:13 on the counter with no sound).
If I close out of the media player, it still can take over 5 minutes for the ROM to decide to stop accessing the CD. A reboot is out of the question, it simply hangs or gives me a BSOD.
Anyone have any experience on whether this is a driver issue, a bad CDROM, or simply a WinME issue? I understand that there are no firmware or driver upgrades for the CDROM (or at least that's what I've found on the message boards thus far). Thanks for the help.
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January 16th, 2004 16:00
It's hard to tell what is causing the problem. Could be Win Me. Since you are planning to upgrade, I would suggest holding off until you upgrade and then see if you still have the problems. You are correct that there are no other drivers for CD drives, just the ones built into Windows. I don't know if the XP drivers are updated from the Me but that may be one thing to consider.
If you do the upgrade, do a "clean" install (where you reformat the hard drive (and format it for NTFS with XP) and then load everything. You will need Windows XP specific drivers for some devices and for any peripherals (printers/scanners if they are XP compatible). Depending on what CD burning software you have, you may have to update that to an XP compatible version (e.g. if you have Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4 or earlier, it is incompatible. The Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 or 6 (v6 is the current version) are the only Easy CD Creator versions that are XP compatible). Run the Windows XP Upgrade Advisor before you actually do the upgrade (whether upgrade or clean install), The upgrade advisor is extremely critical to a successful Win XP installation and anything flagged must be addressed BEFORE actually installing XP.