Dan
December 9th 03, 12:21 PM
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi, i have a pioneer 16x slot dvd drive, today
>after "ripping" some audio cds, i put in starcraft
>broodwar to play, and there was no response as if there
>were no disc in the drive, but if i would go into "my
>computer" and right click onto the dvd-rom, it would
lock
>up the system. But if i stick an audio cd in and go into
>my computer, i can play the cd in windows media player.
>I've tried inserting several data cds, all of them do
the
>same thing, i've tried cd-r copies and original copies,
>same thing. I only noticed this after i did several cd
>rips with a program called EAC(EXACT AUDIO COPY), this
>program has a special way of extracting the audio b/c
>it'll read each song twice, and if it notices any
>differences in any part of a song it reads it again to
>determine which part is "true" which results in a Exact
>Audio Copy. I dont think that would harm my drive,
>because i let it cool AT LEAST 15min between every rip.
I
>uninstalled the drive from the device manager and
>reinstalled it. Same results. If anyone has any ideas or
>if you think the drive is shot (like i do), let me know,
>i would greatly appreciate it, right now i'm going to
>test a dvd. Thanks a lot,
> Justin
>.
>Have had similar problems but lockup occurs when I try
to play a dvd. No problems with game cd's. Gotten any
good info on the net yet?
>Hi, i have a pioneer 16x slot dvd drive, today
>after "ripping" some audio cds, i put in starcraft
>broodwar to play, and there was no response as if there
>were no disc in the drive, but if i would go into "my
>computer" and right click onto the dvd-rom, it would
lock
>up the system. But if i stick an audio cd in and go into
>my computer, i can play the cd in windows media player.
>I've tried inserting several data cds, all of them do
the
>same thing, i've tried cd-r copies and original copies,
>same thing. I only noticed this after i did several cd
>rips with a program called EAC(EXACT AUDIO COPY), this
>program has a special way of extracting the audio b/c
>it'll read each song twice, and if it notices any
>differences in any part of a song it reads it again to
>determine which part is "true" which results in a Exact
>Audio Copy. I dont think that would harm my drive,
>because i let it cool AT LEAST 15min between every rip.
I
>uninstalled the drive from the device manager and
>reinstalled it. Same results. If anyone has any ideas or
>if you think the drive is shot (like i do), let me know,
>i would greatly appreciate it, right now i'm going to
>test a dvd. Thanks a lot,
> Justin
>.
>Have had similar problems but lockup occurs when I try
to play a dvd. No problems with game cd's. Gotten any
good info on the net yet?