CD / DVD drive not working???

[Guest Matt320]

Hi everyone, I have a acer desktop computer... all good specs of cpu, ram etc

but the cd / dvd drive will not play music cds without the sound being jumpy,

also games sometimes do not load, dvds do not play etc. I have changed the

drive with a new one and the problem still exists... so i changed the ide

ribbon cable and used a different port on the mobo. still no good... the

problem is getting gradually worse. I have also updated the drivers and

installed a new copy of windows media player 11 to rule out corrupted

software. what can this be?? everything is swaped out??? thanks, matt320

[Guest peter]

Re: CD / DVD drive not working???

 

Hi

Could you give us the specs of your machine..including the Sound Card used

as well as Size and available space on the HD

peter

"Matt320" <Matt320@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:AB14437B-0D6C-45FA-AC18-42584D958DA8@microsoft.com...

> Hi everyone, I have a acer desktop computer... all good specs of cpu, ram

> etc

> but the cd / dvd drive will not play music cds without the sound being

> jumpy,

> also games sometimes do not load, dvds do not play etc. I have changed the

> drive with a new one and the problem still exists... so i changed the ide

> ribbon cable and used a different port on the mobo. still no good... the

> problem is getting gradually worse. I have also updated the drivers and

> installed a new copy of windows media player 11 to rule out corrupted

> software. what can this be?? everything is swaped out??? thanks, matt320

[Guest Nightowl]

Re: CD / DVD drive not working???

 

Matt320 <Matt320@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on Sat, 29 Sep 2007:

>Hi everyone, I have a acer desktop computer... all good specs of cpu, ram etc

>but the cd / dvd drive will not play music cds without the sound being jumpy,

>also games sometimes do not load, dvds do not play etc. I have changed the

>drive with a new one and the problem still exists... so i changed the ide

>ribbon cable and used a different port on the mobo. still no good... the

>problem is getting gradually worse. I have also updated the drivers and

>installed a new copy of windows media player 11 to rule out corrupted

>software. what can this be?? everything is swaped out??? thanks, matt320

 

Hi Matt

 

Is the drive using DMA transfer or PIO? You can check in Device Manager.

Click on IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers, then the IDE Channel (primary or

secondary) the CD drive uses. Choose Properties, then the Advanced tab.

 

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Nightowl