[etys rule]

I bought this 52X Lite On drive from J&R and installed it without a hitch. Shows up in Device Manager and I finally was able to download the firmware off the net thinking the glitch was with XP. Now, I've got the drive reading data discs, but no music discs (neither store bought or CD-RW). I've spoken with LiteOnIt Customer Service twice and they have no idea. After doing a Google search, I read a few posts where people have had similiar problems. Does anyone out there have any ideas?

I'm running a PII 400Mhz and 512MRAM

I'm at wits end.

Thanks.

 

[Hammerstein]

RMA it and get another first to see what happens...

 

[etys rule]

I forgot to mentioned I've already returned one. This is the 2nd one. Same problem.

 

[JeffL]

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Originally posted by etys rule I bought this 52X Lite On drive from J&R and installed it without a hitch. Shows up in Device Manager and I finally was able to download the firmware off the net thinking the glitch was with XP. Now, I've got the drive reading data discs, but no music discs (neither store bought or CD-RW). I've spoken with LiteOnIt Customer Service twice and they have no idea. After doing a Google search, I read a few posts where people have had similiar problems. Does anyone out there have any ideas? I'm running a PII 400Mhz and 512MRAM I'm at wits end. Thanks.

You mean you can't *hear* the audio, but the disc will load in a CD player app such as Media Player?

 

[etys rule]

Jeff,

When I open WMP it recognizes the title and songs. Which is how I know I'm half right. When I hit play, it scrolls through all the songs until it finds one it can read. Usually the fourth song regardless of album. It reads the first seven seconds and then scrolls through the other songs until it picks up another song. I've tried different CD's and no luck.

I'm thinking it may have something to do with the fact that I am running a PII machine with 52X drive??

I'm off to J&R to see what the salesman says.

Please keep the ideas coming. Thanks.

 

[wolfen68]

....and you're sure the test cd's are not copy protected or (less likely) overly scratched?

My friend had one cd that was scratched in a way that would lock up ANY computer you put it in within 20 seconds.

 

[Hammerstein]

It should have nothing to do with your computer's age. Theoretically, a 52X drive could work on a 486 as long as the computer had a spare IDE channel. I would check your connections and also try to update your chipset drivers, notably your IDE ones. It's a long shot, though.

If not, perhaps try a drive of a different brand. If the same thing happens, I would say that something odd is wrong with your computer and it'd have to go from there