Hi, this is my first time here; I'm not quite sure of all my own computer specs, but I can look them up if you need them, but here's my problem: (Pasted off of the Oblivion Official Tech Support Forums) [About Oblivion DVD-ROM] I don't know why it's not working, it's NOT the CD's problem, because I tested it on another computer which worked fine. It's also not the drive's problem because I tested other DVD-ROMs and they installed perfectly fine. I'm at a loss here, I tried to reboot, uninstall the drive (to let Windows reinstall it), but no matter what I do, it won't work! it's been like this for almost two days and I'm starving for some Oblivion. sad.gif I read that it won't work with Roxio or other burning utilities, but I had Nero the first time it was installed, and it worked fine. I also did a clean boot by downloading msconfig.exe and doing everything on this website: http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=... I'm positive that the drive I'm putting it in is a DVD-ROM drive. I don't know what changed from the first installation, because I've reinstalled before without problem... I like to use reformatting as a final solution, because it takes a lot of time and I'm fairly lazy when it comes to reinstalling everything. :P

"I'm positive that the drive I'm putting it in is a DVD-ROM drive." Do you have other DVD disc some where so you can test out whether your drive is actually a DVD drive? In most cases, if you go into the device manager and click on DVD/CD ROM Drives, it should say if its a DVD-ROM, CD-ROM, CDRW, DVDRW... etc under the drive. So if your drive does not say DVD-ROM or DVDRW, then your drive is definately not DVD... i.e HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8164B under device manager in DVD/CD-ROM Drives... TMP-Man Asus P5P800-SE P4 506 @ 4009Mhz 1.3625v Thermaltake CLP0024 w/ 1700RPM 92MM AS5 2GB OCZ 2-3-2-5 DDR400 PAT 120GB/300GB 7200RPM HD Leadtek 7600GT AGP 590/1600 VF700 ALCU AS5

I checked the properties of it, and it says _NEC DVD_RW ND-3550A I tested it out with another game, Titan Quest, which requires a DVD drive, and it booted and everything.

"I read that it won't work with Roxio or other burning utilities, but I had Nero the first time it was installed, and it worked fine." you burned that game? you can install teh game but you cant play with it. yo need an original disk. LOL by the way, you dont have to reformat the PC. If you have already installed the game, you can go download the NO-cd. as long as you own the game, its legal.

Nono, I didn't burn the game I was just saying that some people said you can't play it with those burning utilities installed.. I never used them myself, Roxio comes with Windows Media and Nero was installed separately. I have the game legally!

Oblivion does not have any special copy protection other than a simple CD check. That was Bethesda's stand against the controversy that programs like StarForce present. So on to your problem. What does the error message say? Does it sound like the drive is struggling when you insert the disc? Sounds to look for are rapid clickings (the read laser shifting back and forth rapidly), the drive spinning up then immediately slowing down, and vibrations caused by imbalanced discs or faulty drives. Please list everything you can with as much detail as possible. I wish my lawn was emo so it would cut itself.

Sorry for the lack of responses for the past days, I was catching up with school. :) Anyways, umm, there IS no error message at all. The CD just doesn't ever display as being read. When I put the CD in, I don't think it ever spins, because I put it in at a certain position and when I removed it again, it was at the same position. It just makes a single click, which I have no idea what that means. Whenever I put some other disk in, that click will occur and then the spinning will start and it'll run fine, but when the Oblivion CD goes in, it just has the click and nothing happens. I looked up some firmware for my drive but I'm a bit afraid to use it because it says there's a chance of the drive failing entirely so I don't think I want to do that.. Sorry I can't tell you anything more.. Oh, if you didn't catch it before, here's my DVD-ROM drive: _NEC DVD_RW ND-3550A And I run Windows 2000 and it's updated fully via Windows Update.