Driver Problem, need help!

[Herms1 0]

Hey everyone i got a crazy problem that i help with.

My Cd-driver is acting funny:

When i install a game (diablo 2 for instance) i get the popup thing that asks me if i wish to install, when i do install the game i can play it properly, but then when i quit the game and try to play again it says "please make sure (insert game here) is in the cd tray" I know the game is in there because i just played it, but it keeps asking me to insert the game. It reads the game fine as the pop up comes back up asking if i would like to play, but when i click yes i get the same message.

 

This has been bugging me for some time and i would greatly appreciate it if someone could help me out.

[Herms1 0]

Yeah i could do the "no-cd hack", but that still doesn't slove the problem as this happens with every game i've tried

[adamvjackson 0]

It is possible the CD lens is dirty, or the drive/optics are failing. Do you have another drive you could (temporarily) replace the drive in question with?

 

That should isolate the problem.

[Ali 0]

I have the same problem with my cheesy AOpen 56x CDROM drive. The drive works and then when it worms up or something it starts acting up (especislly that ticked me off when it happened during installation of windows XP!!!). got an LG 16x DVD-ROM and that was the end of my problems. I still have the drive in my system but i never use it anymore. in my case it is the CDROM drive that was defective.

 

 

in my view get a DVD rom or CDRW drive (almost same price) and just replace it.

[Herms1 0]

Originally posted by adamvjackson:

Quote:

It is possible the CD lens is dirty, or the drive/optics are failing. Do you have another drive you could (temporarily) replace the drive in question with?

 

That should isolate the problem.

 

Unfortunatly no i dont have a spare drive that i could use, so fixing this problem is really the only way out of the tunnel. Anyone else able to help?