DigitalBear
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Good day techies...I beg for your help.
Not sure if this falls into the "hardware troubleshooting" category...but I wasn't sure where else to go first.
I have a new system, just bought it in September. Everything's relatively stable except for a little problem; whenever I insert an "audio cd" into my DVD drive...it almost immediately crashes my computer. As in, my computer acts as though someone hit the power button. It just completely reboots. When it boots back up...I'm told "Windows has recovered frm a serious error". No doubt.
This does not happen with DVDs, Data CDs, Data DVDs. Only CDs with music on them.
I was using Winamp to play my CDs. The problem seems to be exacerbated with Winamp. Sometimes, if I don't have Winamp running, I can get CDs to play music via Windows Media Player...but it still doesn't stop the computer from booting when I insert a different audio CD. I have done everything I can think of to Winamp, but I do not think Winamp is the source of the problem.
Checklist of stuff I've tried...
Problem happens with both purchased and burnt CDs.
I have changed the bitrate on my sound card from 96 to 48 khz, but this doesn't fix the problem.
I have disassociated Winamp from CD audio playback including unchecking CDA filetypes in the Winamp prefs. No luck.
I have made sure Windows XP is NOT set up to "auctomatically" play CDs when they are inserted. DVDs will autorun, but CDs will not.
I have a second CD Drive installed in my tower. If I put a CD in THAT drive, it's fine. Unfortunately, it's a crappy CD player as it's old old old.
I have made sure that I am using the most up to date drivers for my DVD Drive. Firmware is also most recent version.
I am at my wits end on this one. Please, if anyone has any suggestions or is experiencing the same problem, I would greatly appreciate your help.
I am dying to fill my super huge hard drive with music from my CD collection.
System Specs
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual
Core Processor 4200+
2.21 GHz
1.00 GB of RAM
Windows XP Pro
Service Pack 1
DVD Drive is a:
Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-111D
I thank you all in advance.
Not sure if this falls into the "hardware troubleshooting" category...but I wasn't sure where else to go first.
I have a new system, just bought it in September. Everything's relatively stable except for a little problem; whenever I insert an "audio cd" into my DVD drive...it almost immediately crashes my computer. As in, my computer acts as though someone hit the power button. It just completely reboots. When it boots back up...I'm told "Windows has recovered frm a serious error". No doubt.
This does not happen with DVDs, Data CDs, Data DVDs. Only CDs with music on them.
I was using Winamp to play my CDs. The problem seems to be exacerbated with Winamp. Sometimes, if I don't have Winamp running, I can get CDs to play music via Windows Media Player...but it still doesn't stop the computer from booting when I insert a different audio CD. I have done everything I can think of to Winamp, but I do not think Winamp is the source of the problem.
Checklist of stuff I've tried...
Problem happens with both purchased and burnt CDs.
I have changed the bitrate on my sound card from 96 to 48 khz, but this doesn't fix the problem.
I have disassociated Winamp from CD audio playback including unchecking CDA filetypes in the Winamp prefs. No luck.
I have made sure Windows XP is NOT set up to "auctomatically" play CDs when they are inserted. DVDs will autorun, but CDs will not.
I have a second CD Drive installed in my tower. If I put a CD in THAT drive, it's fine. Unfortunately, it's a crappy CD player as it's old old old.
I have made sure that I am using the most up to date drivers for my DVD Drive. Firmware is also most recent version.
I am at my wits end on this one. Please, if anyone has any suggestions or is experiencing the same problem, I would greatly appreciate your help.
I am dying to fill my super huge hard drive with music from my CD collection.
System Specs
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual
Core Processor 4200+
2.21 GHz
1.00 GB of RAM
Windows XP Pro
Service Pack 1
DVD Drive is a:
Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-111D
I thank you all in advance.