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Question about 'Turn Off the CD-ROM Autorun'
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Question about 'Turn Off the CD-ROM Autorun'
Sunday, December 12, 2004 at 2:37 pm
Posted by David McKen
(3 messages posted)
An interesting thing happens when I turn off autorun (be it manually or my cd-burning
software turns it off for me). Sometimes I will change cds and windows will still
think that the previous cd is still in the drive.
As such games will refuse to run as they cannot find the files they want ('dir will still show the files that are on the old cd). The interesting thing is
that I can actually open explorer and browse the old cd as if it was still in the
drive. I can even double-click to open the file and nothing will hint at a problem
until the program starts up and says the file is damaged (I am guessing it is reading
the data located at the same location on the new cd and interpreting it as the data
on the old cd).
Right now the only solution I have is to eject the cd by right-clicking on the icon
in "My Computer" and then refreshing my computer to make sure that windows recognizes
that there is no cd in the drive and then insert the new cd. Once I do that I just
refresh "my computer" again and the correct cd will show up.
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re: Question about 'Turn Off the CD-ROM Autorun'
Sunday, December 12, 2004 at 5:46 pm
Posted by DEX
(11739 messages posted)
David
It's coming from the int13 , you are running win2k right ?
It can be the norm in win98 sometimes but not to offen in win2k...
You can try this to fix it ..
Open the box and move the rom to a diff.cable,slave it to the HD or on it's own
cable should fix it...
if you slave it to your HD use cable select jummper and give it a try..
besure to run your BIOS setup after you make the move...to see the new hardware setup.
On Sunday, December 12, 2004 at 2:37 pm, David McKen wrote:
>An interesting thing happens when I turn off autorun (be it manually or my cd-burning
>software turns it off for me). Sometimes I will change cds and windows will still
>think that the previous cd is still in the drive.
>
>As such games will refuse to run as they cannot find the files they want ('dir
>drive> will still show the files that are on the old cd). The interesting thing
is
>that I can actually open explorer and browse the old cd as if it was still in the
>drive. I can even double-click to open the file and nothing will hint at a problem
>until the program starts up and says the file is damaged (I am guessing it is reading
>the data located at the same location on the new cd and interpreting it as the data
>on the old cd).
>
>Right now the only solution I have is to eject the cd by right-clicking on the icon
>in "My Computer" and then refreshing my computer to make sure that windows recognizes
>that there is no cd in the drive and then insert the new cd. Once I do that I just
>refresh "my computer" again and the correct cd will show up.
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re: Question about 'Turn Off the CD-ROM Autorun'
Sunday, December 12, 2004 at 6:31 pm
Posted by David McKen
(3 messages posted)
Yeah it is Windows 2000
the cd drive is master with a 100MB zip drive, hard drive is by itself.
I will try the cable select thing. I want to leave the hard drive by itself (I have
been told that the max transfer speed of all devices on a IDE cable is the speed
of the slowest device)
On Sunday, December 12, 2004 at 5:46 pm, DEX wrote:
>David
>It's coming from the int13 , you are running win2k right ?
>It can be the norm in win98 sometimes but not to offen in win2k...
>You can try this to fix it ..
>Open the box and move the rom to a diff.cable,slave it to the HD or on it's own
>cable should fix it...
>if you slave it to your HD use cable select jummper and give it a try..
>besure to run your BIOS setup after you make the move...to see the new hardware
setup.
>
>
>
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re: Question about 'Turn Off the CD-ROM Autorun'
Sunday, December 12, 2004 at 7:02 pm
Posted by DEX
(11739 messages posted)
David
Not sure where you got that ("transfer speed ") but it's not true.
transfer speed is based on the device i.e.7200rpm HD with a 8ms.will not go down
to a cd rom transfer rate...if it's on the same cable....
Not having the right cable is big deal (ATA cable the 80 line on a 40 pin jack)(gray,blue,black
ends)
"the cd drive is master with a 100MB zip drive" = that maybe the error, the old zip
drive needs the "legacy driver to be enable) in win2k..
see win2k help on Legacy device...
On Sunday, December 12, 2004 at 6:31 pm, David McKen wrote:
>Yeah it is Windows 2000
>
>the cd drive is master with a 100MB zip drive, hard drive is by itself.
>
>I will try the cable select thing. I want to leave the hard drive by itself (I have
>been told that the max transfer speed of all devices on a IDE cable is the speed
>of the slowest device)
>
>
>
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re: Question about 'Turn Off the CD-ROM Autorun'
Monday, December 13, 2004 at 8:14 am
Posted by David McKen
(3 messages posted)
I mean the DMAXXX speed, Whenever I re-install windows I have to tell it to use DMA
if it is avalible for my CD-ROM and Zip. It defaults to PIO mode with those two but
not my hard drive (it gets set to DMA).
How do I enable the legacy driver? I never installed a driver for the Zip I just
let windows use what ever it has.
On Sunday, December 12, 2004 at 7:02 pm, DEX wrote:
>David
>Not sure where you got that ("transfer speed ") but it's not true.
>transfer speed is based on the device i.e.7200rpm HD with a 8ms.will not go down
>to a cd rom transfer rate...if it's on the same cable....
>Not having the right cable is big deal (ATA cable the 80 line on a 40 pin jack)(gray,blue,black
>ends)
>"the cd drive is master with a 100MB zip drive" = that maybe the error, the old
zip
>drive needs the "legacy driver to be enable) in win2k..
>see win2k help on Legacy device...
>
>
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re: Question about 'Turn Off the CD-ROM Autorun'
Monday, December 13, 2004 at 8:58 am
Posted by DEX
(11739 messages posted)
David
Some CD roms need to be updated to use the DMA in win2k..(frimware update)
The HD will always take the DMA 4 but will share it with the rom if the frimware
is up to date to take in on..
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The zip drive may be holding it back..
try this unplug the zip drive and run it for a bit
If the error is dropped you found the error..
You can use this work around..
Get a USB ext.box for 25.00 bucks that will take on any IDE HD or ROM or ZIP drive
and put it on a USB port that should do the trick..
If you need a link for a ext.box let me know and I will post a link for one.
Forced HardwareForced Hardware is located in the Hardware Resources category in System
Information. "Forced hardware" is any device that you have to configure manually
or that has user-specified resources, as opposed to system-specified resources. The
category "Forced hardware" also applies to devices that are not Plug and Play compatible,
such as legacy Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) devices.
If there is a conflict with a manually configured hardware device, use Device Manager
to locate and troubleshoot the problem. For more information about Device Manager,
see Device Manager.
For more information about Hardware Resources, see Hardware Resources.
But do read the Help file in win2k...
Hope this helps a bit
On Monday, December 13, 2004 at 8:14 am, David McKen wrote:
>I mean the DMAXXX speed, Whenever I re-install windows I have to tell it to use
DMA
>if it is avalible for my CD-ROM and Zip. It defaults to PIO mode with those two
but
>not my hard drive (it gets set to DMA).
>
>How do I enable the legacy driver? I never installed a driver for the Zip I just
>let windows use what ever it has.
>
>
>
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