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My LG CD burner won't playback audio CD's!!! I tried everything I know of to make it work, it reads data cd's no problem, but when I put in an audio cd it spins up fast and than slow and repeats this process forever while it keeps my computer frozen until I hit eject! please help!
This link below is where I tried to get help already, so check it out too so you don't tell me the same info the last guy did, which didn't help me, thanx.
http://computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/53893.html
Which software do you use to play audio cd's if it's WMP or RP check to see that the software's options are set to play audio cd's. Also check windows explorer, right click the drive and check properties, autoplay.
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My Burner has built-in play and stop buttons, it won't play using this method, I use Winamp 3 also but it doesn't matter which software I use though because right after I put the CD in it just starts to spin up and then slow down and repeat again and again, I have tried different audio CD's, all of them do the same, this burner has had no problems playing audio CD's in my old computer, the burner is an LG 12x8x32x and is no more then 3 years old, this is the first problem I have encountered using this product.
I have tried using a different IDE cable, tried putting CDRW on both secondary and master settings as well as on both IDE connections on the motherboard.
I use Sound Blaster 5.1 Live! for my audio, should I move this to another PCI slot on the MB? or will this not even matter? is there a compatibility issue I am not aware of with these two products?
Any more suggestions, ideas?? I really need to get this figured out soon, I need to burn doubles of some audio CD's that I have laying around!
Thanx,
J
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can you 'read' audio-cd's in explorer? on a normal audio cd, it should show something like Track01.cda Track02.cda etc.
the fact that it is spinning my indicate that it is actually playing the cd!
Is there an audio cable (black-red-white with a grey shielding around it) going from you cd-rw to the soundcard? This is needed to listen audio cd's.
(may sound stupid, but a normal question nevertheless, Did you check if your volume is turned on on all deveces (main vol, pc-speakers,...?)
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I had checked that all at the start, I have tried just about every way possible to fix this problem, I have one option left(unless anyone has any other ideas, I hope this one works!), I have downloaded the firmware for it and am going to try that out, this should probably fix my problem, will get back to you.
J
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sound like you cant hear haha you know only [one] of your cd roms can play music on one comp. althoug it allows you to have two connected. like bro. said above cheak the sound cable for your sound card to your cd rom . have you tried annother cd rom on that comp. if so maybe you have a bad burner good luck !!!!!!11
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I think you are misunderstanding me when I say that I have checked everything from the start.
I understand computers, I know how to put them together, I can solve most technical issues on my own, but this problem does not seem to have a fix or even a record of the problem with anyone else in this entire world for that matter.
I did install the firmware update, so now it sees it as a CDRW which it didn't before, but it still won't do anything but freeze my computer everytime I put an audio CD in, the CD does not stop spinning, if the audio cable were not connected it would make no difference, the spinning is strange, not the same as it ran before, my keen senses tell me this, and regardless I (from the beginning) tried two different cables from my sound card to the burner.
The burner works fine and plays audio CD's in the old computer, so I guess there must be some hardware compatibility issues here, not like anyone else here can help, maybe through all my posting, and your misleading directional answers, since I sought not your high mindedness I have found the solution without you, WOW! come to a site for support, get none, and help yourself! :P
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Oh, and another thing, I don't come to tech support related forums asking stupid questions that are already solved, or that the answer is simple to come by, apparently no one else has ever had my exact problem, you think I am a fool for seeking help here, perhaps consider yourself the fool seeing you speak without understanding of the situatation even though it has been explained many times over above, if you had only read you would acknowledge that the problem isn't a simple quick idoit fix like you think.
If anyone on this site has knowledge, and would share this knowledge, let him do so without condemning the people with whom he shares it with, for his lack of understanding will be a snare unto his own soul, for he that condemns is condemned of himself.
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The firmware came through for me after all, just took the computer a while longer to recognize what the update had did.
peace, J
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let him do so without condemning the people with whom he shares it with, for his lack of understanding will be a snare unto his own soul, for he that condemns is condemned of himself.
fool
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lol....
I am a fool because I can fix my computer without you 'yuppies' helping me, seems you don't know what 'tech support' means, maybe you are just ignorant of yourself..who knows?
I had no problems with my CDRW before, and no 'techie' even though I am not one, is able to find a solution without first finding the source of the problem, so, the problem was that my new computer was far more advanced then my LG burner, I have never had to do a firmware update before, and, how can one just guess which path is the right one to follow without first considering all paths?
You call me a fool because I show you your ignorance, you call me a fool because this word validates your knowledge, which is of course, good in your own eyes, but to me, your words are no more then the dead.
The living man cannot be overcome by the dead, for there is only power in life, not in death.
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I apologize, forgive me for running my mouth, sometimes I just lose it when people speak bs instead of trying to really help.
Even the stupid people that no one wants to help, you should direct them then to where they can get help, otherwise, where is your smarts that you can call them stupid?
I guess all this hostility built up in me is from another post in this forum, where people were speaking bad about those who post but have no need to(of course,they not knowing this), well, then when someone posts, and people just think that they are stupid, how are they helping them? At least address the problem to them, oh no you wasted some bandwidth! fact is everyone wastes bandwidth all the time, so what if you look like a fool to the rest of the world, why should you care what they think? help people and they will help you, dispise them and they will dispise you. Need to uphold an image that is vain and they will try and do the same, yet you all walk in ignorance of yourselves, what you really do to each other is hate on another with the words which you speak.
Just somethings to think about.
peace, J
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looks like my problem is back, firmware did a 48 hour fix it would seem, but my cdrw must be messed, oh well, my video card and my new extra cdrom are giving me problems now too, must be my motherboard...and not to mention that at the same time my high speed inet connection is moving at slow speed, my computer has a mind of its own.
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