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
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