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cd rom doesn't work in xp
Name: bamdl Date: December 2, 2002 at 11:51:00 Pacific OS: win xp home CPU/Ram: amd 1600+/128
Comment:
My cd rom WILL read if I boot to it but it WILL NOT read once xp starts. I chcek it in device manager and it says that it is working properly but it doesn't read any kind of cd..
Name: Chuck Date: December 2, 2002 at 15:38:19 Pacific
Reply:
How to Enable or Disable Automatically Running CD-ROMs
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];155217 -------------------- How to Troubleshoot CD-ROM Problems in XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314096 --------------- Also to say, you should get more RAM. XP uses all of 128 to run properly, and works better. It slows things down if you have programs starting and running in the background during Startup. Also when you open programs, things are slower if they have to take RAM away from XP.
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