Our stupid PC

Angrist · 01-12-2003, 08:03 AM

We have 2 CD-ROM drives, one is a burner. Both don't work properly at the moment. You have to open it, close it, open it, close it... until it reads the CD.

Every time the PC boots up, it says there is a problem with the second CD-ROM player. Dunno what, but you have to press F1 to continue.

When one of the players work, most times the games just crash. No Alt+F4, no Ctrl+Alt+Del works. Only reset.

Right now I want to start WC3 to see if Neo is online so we can play, but alas it doesn't work.

I hate this PC.

Jonbo298 · 01-12-2003, 09:13 AM

First thing that came to my mind after reading that was possibly either old drivers or bad drivers. Have you checked for driver updates?

Null · 01-12-2003, 11:54 AM

new CD drives arent that expensive.

or just download a No CD crack so you dont need to put the CD's in to play games.

Neo · 01-12-2003, 03:25 PM

Only thing I know to do is uninstall and then reinstall the latest drivers. If that does't work there's always tech support.

Angrist · 01-13-2003, 04:36 AM

Hm I'll try that.
And Null, CD cracks disable multiplayer with WarCraft 3.

I could do that for DK2 though...

Null · 01-13-2003, 04:25 PM

i had a cd crack working in multiplayer WC3.

only prob was it wouldnt work for upgrading. had to keep getting the new version of the crack every update.

there are thoes that work tho.

PuPPeT · 01-14-2003, 04:19 AM

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Originally posted by Angrist
Every time the PC boots up, it says there is a problem with the second CD-ROM player. Dunno what, but you have to press F1 to continue.

That press F1 to continue error sounds like the drive is not showing up to the bios any more! Does it still show up in windows if not see if the IDE and power leads are pluged in.

Angrist · 01-15-2003, 06:12 AM

It's the secundary slave drive, which is our second CD-ROM. And yeah it does show up in windows. When booting up, the PC tests the drives, and recognices it, but after that it gives the warning.

And Null, Battle.net doesn't check for your CD? Or they can't?

I'll try it!

DaBigDeezy · 02-08-2003, 05:22 PM

When all else fails get a proffessional!!!!!!!!!!!

Null · 02-08-2003, 05:25 PM

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Originally posted by DaBigDeezy
When all else fails get a proffessional!!!!!!!!!!!

manasecret · 02-08-2003, 05:34 PM

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Originally posted by Angrist
It's the secundary slave drive, which is our second CD-ROM. And yeah it does show up in windows. When booting up, the PC tests the drives, and recognices it, but after that it gives the warning.

And Null, Battle.net doesn't check for your CD? Or they can't? I'll try it!

How old is the PC? Has there ever been a time when you had no problems with the CD-ROM's?

It sounds very much like a problem with the jumper settings. Any IDE drive whether CD-ROM or Hard Drive etc. have a jumper in the back of it to set whether it's a slave, master, or let the mobo decide it automatically.

I've built two computers and both times the jumper settings seem to be messed up. The errors were weird, too, kind of similar to yours where the mobo would recognize the CD-ROM but then all of a sudden wouldn't, or something like that.

If you want, you can open the PC and look at the jumper settings on the back of the CD-ROM's to see whether the Slave and Master jumpers are properly set. Or if the jumpers are on the Automatic Detect setting (I forgot the proper acronym for it), you may want to manually set the CD-ROM's to Slave or Master instead. Some mobos don't support the automatic detect, so it can screw it up.

If this doesn't sound like fun, professional help may be what you want.

BTW, I don't know if you're still here at the forums, but if you want to respond without posting, just edit your last post and I'll look at that.

Cyrax9 · 02-18-2003, 12:11 AM

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Originally posted by manasecret
It sounds very much like a problem with the jumper settings. Any IDE drive whether CD-ROM or Hard Drive etc. have a jumper in the back of it to set whether it's a slave, master, or let the mobo decide it automatically.

Mansecret, this is what I was thinking as well when I read Angrist's post.

I bought a DVD-ROM Drive (Pioneer DVD-117 AVOID!!!) to replace TWO crappy DVD-ROM Drives (Pioneer DVD-116 again AVOID like the Plauge!!), because Alienware screwed be out of a working DVD-ROM Drive (That's another story though), and the solution was manually changing the Jumper switch on the backof the drive.

You may need a small screwdriver or good hands to do this Angrist, but it may be all you need to do.

If it's not detecting the drive at all, it's almost 100% a Jumper Porblem, if it's detecting it but with erros, the cables might be lose, it may be a Jumper problem, or your BIOS may not be configured correctly.

Best thing to do is try and change the Jumper Settings, and if that doesn't sound like a task you'd like to do, I'd suggest getting a Professional to look at it.

Jumper settings are a pain, but they're the only thing I can thinkof off the top of my head that's causing your problem.

The Duggler · 02-18-2003, 09:25 AM

Yhea, what those guy said.

Also, after that you can always try one drive at the time alone or swap the drives on different IDE ports to try to narrow the problem down.