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My CDROMs are dying when gaming!!
Name: Sara Date: November 23, 2001 at 21:34:52 Pacific
Comment:
I have a CDRW(Slave) and CDROM(Master) and when I am playing a game like say starcraft for some reason after a given amount of time the cdrom or cdrw will "spin down" and fall asleep causing my game to lock up! I have to restart and start over...bummer! What can I do or install to prevent this from happening? It is really a pain in the BUTT! Thanks! Happy Holidays and Take Care. Sara
Name: Dan Penny Date: November 23, 2001 at 21:48:57 Pacific
Reply:
Possible..... Check your APM (Automatic Power Management) settings in control panel and/or BIOS. When you start the games, things are buffered into memory, and your using that to play. The drive has no activity, so it powers down. As I said, a possibility.
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Response Number 2
Name: nop Date: November 23, 2001 at 22:51:04 Pacific
Summary: I am running Win98SE on a P3, Asus cusl2 motherboard with 256 ram. It seems that when I boot up my computer does not see either of my cdrom drives(there are two). I have an older cdrom drive and a new...
Summary: Hello! Have a little problem with my cdrom driver. The problem occured when ive upgrade the directx 8.1 to my win98. There are no virus on my computer(resent format c: =)) And ive find it in win2000 w...
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