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David,

Well I purchased a CD5233E today from CompUSA and I'm slightly better off.
I'm able to read data CDs but Audio/music CDs has trouble.

Insert Win98 CD and she fires up automatically no problems.

Insert Audio disc and Windows Media Player Kicks open shows Track 01, hit
play and error says "The format is not supported".  Tracks show up on MS
Explorer as .cda files.  Same audio CD works fine in my HP CD-R.  Strangely
the Audio CD will play if I hit the play button on the face of the CD ROM,
in fact I'm able to control play in windows player after it is "Jump
started" with the play button.

If ANYONE can help me I'd appreciate it.

David, you may want to make sure that your IDE controllers are set up
correctly since everything is dead.  Check Control Panel/System/Device
Manager/Hard Disk Controllers/xxxxyyyyy IDE Controller/Properties/Settings
and make sure your Dual IDE Channel Settings are correct.....


Susan




"David R." <aminamin@canada.com> wrote in message
news:393bb53f.0111121940.798c3ba7@posting.google.com...
> Hi,
>
> I have a major problem with my CD drive:
>
> The CD rom drive (creative CD5233E) is unable to read any CD. Every
> time I insert a CD in the drive, the busy light flashes a few times,
> then after a few seconds the CD pops out. It is unable to read any CD,
> while my CD-R has no trouble at all.
>
> if more specifications are needed just name them.
> I appreciate any help.
>
> THanX
> David

I have the same CD and it worked great under W98SE.  Then, I installed
XP  (upgrade) and I get a message telling me to insert a disc even
when one is in the drive. (mind you, this is the same drive that I
used to install XP in the first place).   XP says that the drive is
installed properly. Today, I formated hard drive and did a clean
install of XP and wound up in the same place

MS Support says I need to get a Creative XP driver but Creative says
they have no plans to issue such a driver since the drive uses the
basic CD driver......

Anyone fix this?   Who actually mfrs the drive for Creative?  maybe
they have a driver out......

Lew


On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 05:24:13 GMT, "TK" <Tomsueec@home.com> wrote:

>David,
>
>Well I purchased a CD5233E today from CompUSA and I'm slightly better off.
>I'm able to read data CDs but Audio/music CDs has trouble.
>
>Insert Win98 CD and she fires up automatically no problems.
>
>Insert Audio disc and Windows Media Player Kicks open shows Track 01, hit
>play and error says "The format is not supported".  Tracks show up on MS
>Explorer as .cda files.  Same audio CD works fine in my HP CD-R.  Strangely
>the Audio CD will play if I hit the play button on the face of the CD ROM,
>in fact I'm able to control play in windows player after it is "Jump
>started" with the play button.
>
>If ANYONE can help me I'd appreciate it.
>
>David, you may want to make sure that your IDE controllers are set up
>correctly since everything is dead.  Check Control Panel/System/Device
>Manager/Hard Disk Controllers/xxxxyyyyy IDE Controller/Properties/Settings
>and make sure your Dual IDE Channel Settings are correct.....
>
>
>Susan
>
>
>
>
>"David R." <aminamin@canada.com> wrote in message
>news:393bb53f.0111121940.798c3ba7@posting.google.com...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a major problem with my CD drive:
>>
>> The CD rom drive (creative CD5233E) is unable to read any CD. Every
>> time I insert a CD in the drive, the busy light flashes a few times,
>> then after a few seconds the CD pops out. It is unable to read any CD,
>> while my CD-R has no trouble at all.
>>
>> if more specifications are needed just name them.
>> I appreciate any help.
>>
>> THanX
>> David
>