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April 3rd, 2005 22:00
Auto Play works sometimes
Hi:
I have a Dimension 4700 with duel drives. HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8163B and a Philips DVD + - RW DVD8631.
Sometimes every thing seems to be working and sometimes the “Auto Play” feature does not work in either drive, and I have a terrible time trying to get CD-ROM games to play. When they work they work in both drives, when they do not work they do not work in either drive.
I set the properties for both drives to prompt me when a disk is inserted and have tried setting it to open with a specific program.
I checked for updated drivers and it said no driver could be found that was better than the software already installed.
I found a firmware update for the DVD8631.
I ran the “Auto Play Repair Wizard” I found at a Microsoft site. What a waste of time that was. They should call it the “Auto Play Repair Apprentice” it has allot to learn. The CD I placed in the drives did not Auto Play and the wizard said every thing was OK.
I removed both drives from device manager, restarted and windows replaced them.
Any suggestions on how to repair these drives?
Predator
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April 3rd, 2005 23:00
Hi Sjr,
One of the biggest problems we have seen lately with similiar issues has been Sonic`s DLA program.
If perhaps you have it, consider disabling it. Click on the CD/RW link in my post and scroll to Section 13-0, article 12.
I have additional articles from Microsoft dealing with Autoplay in Section 100 of the same CD/RW link, starting at article 57, however many have had good luck the Repair wizard that failed for you.
Best Regards
God, grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway,
the good fortune to run into the ones I do
and the eyesight to tell the difference.
CD/RW Link
sjr2k
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April 5th, 2005 15:00
I followed the instructions to disable DLA, but it did not resolve the issue.
Under Device Manager I’ve noticed I have a few things doubled,
for example I have two of the following:
Intel 82915G Express Chipset Family
Primary IDE Channel
Plug and Play Monitor
Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.00 GHz
System Board
Why do I have two Primary IDE channels, don’t these control the drives? Where is the secondary IDE channel?
I can open the game disks and even explore them but I have a allot of trouble getting them to run.
Also when I remove a game disk that did not run I get a warning box that says “MssCli.exe No Disk”, I have to click the cancel button over 50 times to make it disappear from both the DVD-ROM drive and the DVD-Burner drive.
Szyszka
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April 5th, 2005 18:00