CD Auto run.

[Active Techster]

Dealt with a problem from an end user today- made for a really frustrating experience which left me bewildered and confused by it,.

Basically I sold to her an NForce2 Shuttle PC - Athlon XP 2400 - 60Gb Maxtor Hard Drive - Samsung DVD/CDRW Combo drive - Has integratyed GeForce 4 graphix.

She took the PC away I was happy that it was perfect and that there would be no problems...she hadnt taken it away an hour and she called me up - Saying she was trying to install AOL but it wasnt doing as she wanted.

All it was doing was not Auto-Running! I got her to bring it back to me - I took a look at it and I got a DVD to autoload - but no other CD - I tried a different CDdrive - just a plain CDRom but it wouldnt auto load anything. Then I decided to uninstall the CDRom from device manager - Upon redetection it auto loads a CD Once but no time afterwards.

I tried numerious other things to get it working:

Moving the CDRW combo drive and the Hard Drive caddy to another shuttle identicle in spec, no joy.

Even reinstalled XP to no avail.



In my opinion this is just plain crazy, I can mpersonally live with it on my machine but this lady wont take it away until its right :( grrrrrrrr.

Is there any reason why it would do it that I have missed? I really am lost with this one it makes no sense.

Thanks for your help in advance.

Pid

[Jason1971]

Hello Active Techster,

Maybe you should repost this thread in the "Windows" forum. It seems to have a little more traffic than this one.


Jason

[mjc]

Jason1971

This is the poper palce for it...I would just move it back to here, since in essence it is a multi-media question.

Active-Techster

What version of XP?

Is the auto insert notification checked?

Here is how to disable it...http://help.acoustica.com/mp3-cd-burner/2kain.htm

Maybe try working backwards?

[Jason1971]

Sorry MJC, I assumed Active Techster problem was Windows based not necessarily a problem with the CD-ROM..........


Jason

[Active Techster]

XP Home is the OS.

Also installed Easy CD Creator for CD writing.

Have not done the latter.

Cheers


Pid

[jabarnutcase]

Hi Active Techster-

I may be missing the whole point here- (I tend to do that sometimes)

But they kind of hid away the ol' auto detect settings in XP. Took me a while to find the options.

At any rate, this info is not in device manager under the drives, but rather found by opening "my computer". From there, right clicking on the actual drive in question and selecting "properties", will finally give you an "autoplay tab".
It's a strange bird...From there, you can select a particular action to perform, (from numerous options depending on what you have installed), or, ask for a "prompt" that allows you choose an action.

Hope that helps, if not...Nice talking to you. :p :)