I met this recently with a Toshiba laptop - music would play for about 20 seconds, then stop. It turned out that the soundcard ( an embedded thing on the motherboard ) had a power saving mode, which cut in after 20 seconds of audio. Bizarre, but true. > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Buraczewski [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Friday, December 11, 1998 3:07 AM > Subject: The day the music died.... > > Hello to all > > I have a client with a system with the following problem: > > When she inserts a CD into the drive, it is auto detected, the Microsoft > CD > Player starts, and the CD begins to play. After about 20 seconds, the > display on the CD Player software changes, and says No Audio or Data CD > detected. The CD continues to play for about 1 minute, and then stops. > The > track can be restarted by pressing the play button but the same thing will > happen. After about 1 minute, the music stops. > > This is a tekram motherboard, an AMD K6-2 300 mhz machine with 64 mb ram. > It uses a Sound Blaster Ensoniq sound card and an ATI 3D charger video > card. > Windows 95 release 2.5 [or what ever the last release prior to win 98 > was]. > > I downloaded the most recent driver for the ensoniq card, no help. > > Has anyone any ideas as to what to try next with this machine? > > Thanks > Mike Buraczewski > [log in to unmask] Curious about the people moderating your messages? Visit our staff web site: http://nospin.com/pc/staff.html