one way to do this is put the dvd in.
Open windows explorer winkey e
arrow to the drive with the dvd and press alt enter
control tab to autoplay
here is where you choose what should happen when a dvd is inserted.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Randy Tijerina" <[email protected]>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 8:50 AM
Subject: Re: my Cd's or dvd's will not play at all on my machine
Hello tony ro whoever may happen to be reading this.
here's what's going on.
You see, i can for example put in a dvd and manually bring up say, power
dvd and i can play it.
but what I'm wanting is for the power dvd to come up automatically.
I've been told to check and see if Auto insert
is abled.
to my knoledge, I've never ever had any trouble with service pack III at
all.
In fact, when I installed the service pack III a few moons ago, it was
still up and running.
I just noticed it yesterday as a matter of fact when I was trying to do a
repair of Jaws. but that's another topic.
You do hear the drive sounding like a lamborghini star4ting up.
As I said though it doesn't automatically come up like it used to.
nick danger wrote:
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.
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