This friend of mine has this laptop that doesn't like to play CDs.
When you pop it in, it skips, makes EVERYTHING SLOW, and then takes literally about 4 minutes to close. Even when we ctrl-alt-deleted, it didn't show up as a running application (in WMP or winamp) but was still skipping like crazy. I went into Processes, and ended it there, BUT IT STILL KEPT SKIPPING. Finally we just took the CD out and so it had to stop.
She has lots of crap on her computer, I'm guessing kazaa-related. I'm going to go try to clean up her computer for her soon but I don't know what to do about the CD player making CDs skip like mad.
Any ideas?
She has a Toshiba satellite somethingorother, can't find the exact model.
Oh and the CD wasn't scratched that badly, it should NOT have skipped like that.
Now stop being so freaking nice, and buy a stun gun. - Krell
Sorry tato, youre not a physist, engineer, or a designer, you cant make that call.
CD skip is an intagible thing, and the mechanisms involved vary from player to player.
The test is, to answer the question; Will the CD player function properly with a CD in prime condition?
On a clean reboot, place a new CD in the player, and observe the seek time, and if you can move forward and back in the media, without skip and hickups.
If this is a go, then you know that the CD Player is functional. If the prime condition CD also has problems playing, then you may have to enable DMA, or you may have a hardware failure with the unit.
She won't put a new CD in it--she's afraid it'll get scratched.
Now stop being so freaking nice, and buy a stun gun. - Krell
Technophobia
Technophobia, like other phobias, is fear or intense dislike, for technology. It invokes a wide range of negative emotions, such as anxiety, incompetence, fear, stress and nervousness.
She can chose to address this, or give her laptop to charity, and persue Refridgerator Art as her major, and Finger Painting as her minor.
Krell, unless you've played with those new Toshiba's....it's hard to understand it...
The system with which you insert a disc...is beyond re-fuckin-tarded.
You press down hard on the CD tray...the system shits it out about 1/4th of the way...
Then you pull it out....and press a CD into a PSX type holder...then shove it back in.
The whole thing is within the tray...so even minor usage tends to screw up the lasers alignment....it's a dumb ass system...
Her drive is probably fucked from all that college life....may have to buy an external firewire/usb drive if she really needs it.
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LOL THATS WHAT I SAID
Lets recap
A) eject tray
B) Place undamaged CD in to tray
C) If undamaged CD fails to play, it may be fucked up
D) is an intagible thing, and the mechanisms involved vary from player to player.
You honestly think I dont know what the chintzy tray on a Toshiba is like?
What was my other choice in advice . . . . kick the shit out of it and see if that helps? Or buy an external firewire/usb drive, without trying to see if the one she has is really defunk?
Thanks guys, we'll see how a perfecly wonderful CD works out in it....
Now stop being so freaking nice, and buy a stun gun. - Krell
yeh i had dat problem with a certain game returning to a german castle with an animal in the name like a dog.
the cd was covered in muck, it totally crapped up my computer every time i tried it. realised it was dirty, cleaned it, tried it again, worked great!
lol... why dont more people follow apple's example and have a slot loading drive like the powerbook? now thats a good idea.
also, what program is playing the cd's? just wondering... it probably has nothing to do with your problem.
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the onlky time my cd player tends ot skip is when I am listening to music and burning something w/ my cd-rw as well. when I open the door to the cd-rw (two sererate drives) the player will hang and I will hear the same snippet of music over and over for approx 5 to 10 seconds.
but yeah, anyways, I would bet that if you clean up her pc (if its as bad as I am imagining you should probably just REINSTALL EVERYTHING- or tell her to do it) she wont have that problem. what with all the kazaa crap, spy crap and all the other crap she probably has running in the background...well, that could take up a lot of memory and processor time both. but even with all that, the damn drive should still close so....yeah, just tell her, next time dont buy toshiba!
buy plextor or lite on instead...
Hmm... the drive closes just fine.
The program used was WMP, we tried Winamp 2.91 as well.
I think it's just her drive that' s messed up. We tried a new CD (this awful Club Mix thing I got from a friend a while ago) and it skipped like hell. She copied one of the songs to her library and it played fine.
I uninstalled kazaa and ran Spybot. It was a good ol' time. Then off to download kazaa lite.
So later on, today or this weekend, or when school's out, she's going to go in to the place she got it and complain with warranty in hand.
Now stop being so freaking nice, and buy a stun gun. - Krell
i have problems with my cd rom and cd rw drive after sometime. i dunno why sometimes it uses 100 % cpu to burn a blody disc... and the loading of my cdrs on my Microstar 56 X cdrom is jerky.. i cannot play mp3s smoothly on it cos somehow the buffering is out of sync... at first i thought it was the drive but the chances of 2 cd drives failing is quite low so i figure it muz be the OS... WIndows XP. after i reinstalled it ... it worked... so i believe somehow the drivers got corrupted... now i use system restore instead it should work.....
can anyone else shed some more light on this cos its blody irritating me...
Thanks!
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