CD drive showing previous disc inserted...
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I went to install some games on a friends PC and ran into a LOT of problems.
Lets use FarCry as an example here. FarCry is a 5 cd game, so I started with disc 1, which seemed to go OK, disc 2 also went OK but then when it came time for disc 3 when I put it in WinXP showed that disc 2 was still in teh drive.
No matter what I did I could not get his PC to recognise that disc 3 is in the drive, It kept saying disc 2 was in. I tried ejecting it from within windows, and tried resetting the autorun options to default.
The same thing happened with Battlefield Vietnam, although the error message was different I suspect it is related to the drive not recogniseing when a new disc is in.
He is running WinXP Pro SP1
Asus a7v333 mobo
Athlon XP 2200
Cheapass 52x cd-rom.
I acually sold him this machine, and it worked fine when I had it... I did however re-format, and re-image it before selling it to him.
Any Ideas on how to fix this? I know Ive seen this problem before but dont remember how to fix it.
Lets use FarCry as an example here. FarCry is a 5 cd game, so I started with disc 1, which seemed to go OK, disc 2 also went OK but then when it came time for disc 3 when I put it in WinXP showed that disc 2 was still in teh drive.
No matter what I did I could not get his PC to recognise that disc 3 is in the drive, It kept saying disc 2 was in. I tried ejecting it from within windows, and tried resetting the autorun options to default.
The same thing happened with Battlefield Vietnam, although the error message was different I suspect it is related to the drive not recogniseing when a new disc is in.
He is running WinXP Pro SP1
Asus a7v333 mobo
Athlon XP 2200
Cheapass 52x cd-rom.
I acually sold him this machine, and it worked fine when I had it... I did however re-format, and re-image it before selling it to him.
Any Ideas on how to fix this? I know Ive seen this problem before but dont remember how to fix it.
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