Hi,
I had a similar problem a while back. My CD drive was the blame. I got a new
one and haven't had any trouble since.
Kylie Nielsen

Iz Kuzara wrote:

> Hi All --
>
> I was finally able to solve my previous booting problem. But I have to
> grin and bear it now not being able to use any application for about 2
> or 3 minutes as it loads Winfax 8 on the taskbar. That is the least of
> my problem at the moment.  My problem is that today, I found my CD drive
> does not/cannot read any data from any of my application CDs. I changed
> CDs several times to make sure it is not the CDs I put in, but all of
> them turned out the same results. I would like to know if someone out
> there knows how I can resolve this problem. I have not had this
> experience before.
>
> My system is:
>
> PII 233
> Epox  EP61LXA-M mobo with AGP/USB
> 24Hex Diamond Data CDR
> Matrox Millenium II graphics accelerator card
> 3.2 GB Western Digital
> 2.5GB Quantum Siriocco
> 5.1GB Matrox
> HP scanner and printer
> SBAWE32 sound card with IDE connector
>
> The CDR is connected to the sound card. All my hdds are operating at
> FAT32 for the last 2 days as I had just formatted them and removed the
> partitions. Before this, yesterday, because it is taking my computer
> quite a bit of time for it to be use to me, I played with my
> autoexec.bat and config.sys to see what is causing the delay. I started
> putting "REM" on my driver's configuration.
>
> autoexec.bat is as follows:
>
> SET CTCM=C:\WINDOWS
> @ECHO OFF
> SET SOUND=C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\CTSND
> SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E
> SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 E620 T6
>
> MSCDEX /D:MSCD001 /V
>
> config.sys is as follows:
>
> DOS=HIGH,UMB
> DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
> DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS
> rem DEVICEHIGH=C:\CDPRO\VIDE-CDD.SYS /D:MSCD001
> DEVICE=c:\CDPRO\VIDE-CDD.SYS /D:MSCD001 /P:1F0,14 /P:170,15 /P:1E8,12
> /P:168,10
>
> If I REMmed out the first line on my autoexec.bat, I can't find my
> CDROM, so I left it at that. Then I started REMming both lines of my
> config.sys. Still no CDROM. I removed the REM statement one by one and
> only loaded one of them, the same problem with slow access to windows. I
> left both of them without the REM attachment and it gives me an error
> that driver is already loaded so it unload the driver.
>
> I have checked my System Mangler and there is no yellow mark, nor red
> mark into any of them and despite that did not believe there are no
> problems, so I checked the settings of each and every one of them to see
> if any device in there would have a conflict or is said to be working
> properly. They are, but still have the same problem -- my CDR can't read
> any data from any CDs I put in there, both audio, program and plain
> data. There wasn't any files that exists. The directory completely shows
> blank.
>
> I have also ran RegClean, the latest version, and checked for errors. It
> found nothing. I do not know where else to look.
>
> Can someone please help me?
>
> Iz Kuzara