Help: cd player

Subject: RE: Help: cd player
From: Murph10566
Date: 26 Apr 02 - 11:04 AM

Kendall -

Purely from a 'Hacker':

Some of the newer Computers will allow you to reset to an earlier date (when all devices and programs were operating)... This saves the bother of re-installing software.

Recently lost all sound from my PC - Investigation indicated 'No Sound Card'... apparently my blundering fingers inadvertently removed the operation...

Using the Windows XP Corrective Walk-through (blessedly simple process) I reset to a week earlier and 'All things became as they were'... a virtual Time Machine... and I didn't lose any files that were added during the period between the reset date and the present... most cool.

Good luck -

M.

Subject: RE: Help: cd player
From: kendall
Date: 26 Apr 02 - 07:58 AM

reboot didn't work.

Subject: RE: Help: cd player
From: wysiwyg
Date: 26 Apr 02 - 01:23 AM

1. Upgrade insurance

2. Buy ammo

3. "Oh no! Someone broke in and shot up my place!"

4. New puder (or jail)

Problem solved!

~Susan

Subject: RE: Help: cd player
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 26 Apr 02 - 01:09 AM

Okay.The reason I asked was to recommend a reboot if it was built in. But, that has been suggested already. Did you try it? Did it work?

Stephen

Subject: RE: Help: cd player
From: Amos
Date: 25 Apr 02 - 05:16 PM

Concur with rebooting as first try -- drivers which runthese machines are often tempermental especially on mass-produced Wintel machines, in y experience.

If the reboot fails, you probably want to reinstall the driver if you have the software for doing so. Otherwise it's expert debugging time, or a long boring wait on tech support.

A

Subject: RE: Help: cd player
From: Anglo
Date: 25 Apr 02 - 05:13 PM

Did you try a simple reboot?

Subject: RE: Help: cd player
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 25 Apr 02 - 05:11 PM

I get the BBC magazine with their excellent cd each month. Combined on on the disc is a cd-Rom discussing the music. I couldn't get it to work in the cd and cd-r drives I have. After a session with a Dell technician, he found that it wouldn't work with the Gatesware they factory install. I understand that the problem has been corrected in later machines off the assembly line or that the cds have been revised, but I haven't tried again.
Kendall, I can't help, but I had the thought that it erases the second time through if it doesn't like the music. (he! he! he!)

Subject: RE: Help: cd player
From: kendall
Date: 25 Apr 02 - 05:07 PM

Built in. It also has a burner

Subject: RE: Help: cd player
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 25 Apr 02 - 04:56 PM

Is you player built into the computer or is it a seperate piece of equipment connected to the pc?

Subject: RE: Help: cd player
From: kendall
Date: 25 Apr 02 - 04:39 PM

I just inserted The Boarding Party again. It played fine not half an hour ago. Now, nothing.

Subject: RE: Help: cd player
From: kendall
Date: 25 Apr 02 - 04:35 PM

It is properly inserted, and, it is Art Thieme. It played ok the other day. If the S.O.B. doesn't like Art Thieme, I'm going to dump it!

Subject: RE: Help: cd player
From: MMario
Date: 25 Apr 02 - 04:26 PM

Kendall - have you opened the CD drive back up and made SURE the CD is level and seated in the sucker?

also - you will find the occasional CD that doesn't want to work on some computers.

Subject: cd player
From: kendall
Date: 25 Apr 02 - 04:20 PM

Who knows something about cd players in computers? Mine played two discs and quit. Now it says "insert cd" I did, nothing happens, and it continues to say :"Insert cd"