Hi randy, This is a good news bad news thing as far as being able to help you with this goes. Tomorrow I'm going to be going out of town so I won't be able to do much for you after tonight but here's as much information as I can give you to help you on the road to recovery.
Are you using windows xp with service pack 3? If the answer to this is yes, then this is a major problem. I went through a similar meltdown of my CD and DVD-RW rom drives and had to end up buying new ones. Let me try and explain what I hope has not happened to you because this got me good. In service pack 3 windows not only alters registry codes pertaining to your CD and DVD rom drives, they also implement some early windows installer technologies in there that are not compatible to today's packages. It's like having an ensult and trying to put a top of the line stereo system in it. This of course will not work and what's possibly happened is that the old technology has rendered the new CD and DVD-rom technologies useless. The end result of this is that you may have to do one of three things: The first of these is hopefully the solution for your problem and that is to go to the following link and download the patch from microsoft that's under the fix it for me link on the webpage. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060#nextsteps Once you're on that page, run the patch. After you have run it, check to see if windows still sees your drives then, try to play a CD or DVD in your rom drives. If they still don't work, re-install your rom burning software. This is especially true if you are running any of the following: iTunes software by Apple Nero software by Nero Inc Roxio Creator software by Sonic Solutions Zune software by Microsoft If you are using windows vista, these same steps apply. If you have done the re-install of the rom burning software and windows still refuses to see it or play your CD's re-install your CD-and DVD-rom drivers. You may also have to go to the website that makes your rom drives and check for the latest updater to your firmware. Be sure when doing this that you get the exact make and model to avoid complete corruption of the drives. Hope this helps. Tony ----- Original Message ----- From: "Randy Tijerina" <[email protected]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 6:36 PM Subject: my Cd's or dvd's will not play at all on my machine Friends, this is scaring the heck out of me. I put a cd or dvd in to my drive, and nothing will not play! I don't know to be honest with you what happened. it was fine yesterday, then, bang! nothing doing. is there anything i can do? You do hear the drive making a buzz kind of sound, then it stops. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [email protected] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.13.64/2321 - Release Date: 08/23/09 06:18:00 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [email protected]
