CD-rom problems... possibly ide cables or jumper pins

[Jitsu]

I just built a new computer. Everything works flawlessley except some stuff with my sound (lets ignore this problem in this thread) and the fact that I cannot play certain games that worked perfectly on my last system.

Everytime I go to play Ravenshield (RVS) I get the error "Please insert CD2 into your cd drive and then press ok". The proper CD is in the drive. I can go into my computer and view the data on this cd. I reinstalled the game 3x.

- I just purchased a DVD-RW drive 2 days ago.
- I have a CD-RW drive that works perfect.
---- Its not my CD drives ability to read CD's. I installed the games that cannot play off of these drives, and if I go into my computer and view the data that is on the cd... which means that they do infact read.

- I installed RVS 3x and properly patched this game up to 1.51 (current) each time.

- I contacted tech support for my mobo and they said "It sounds like a software confliction problem, contact UBISOFT" which dosent really make sense to me so I dismissed this software confliction problem.

- I thought it was something with my RVS cd until I went and installed Battlefield 1942 (BF) and THE SAME EXACT ERROR CAME UP.
- THE CD WAS IN THE DRIVE JUST LIKE RVS's CD.

I believe its something with my ide cables, the cd drives jumper pins or possibly something else with my hardware.

Lets remember that the exact same games, cd's, and cd keys were used to install and play these games on my last system and that my CD drives read data and install games with no problem.

 

[mechBgon]

Is the drive using the same drive letter (D:, E: or whatever) that it was using when the game was installed the very first time? If not, try swapping drive letters around in Disk Management so that it's got that letter. The game is looking for the CD, not just in any drive, but in THE drive... the drive from which it was initially installed when it wrote its registry entries. Or that's my educated guess, anyway

 

[Jitsu]

I never had both CD drives hooked up at the same time because I dont have enough power outlets.. and it dosent matter which one has power/ribbon cable.... they're always d:/

I installed the game on the same drive as i'm attempting to play it on now.

 

[Jitsu]

ttt

 

[Jitsu]

I just realized that its every game that requires the game cd to be put in the drive.

All of the games I installed are original copies and cd's.

 

[Jitsu]

WTF no one has a possible solution to my problem? I feel like throwing my computer off of a tall cliff right now.

 

[Jitsu]

WTF no one has a possible solution to my problem? I feel like throwing my computer off of a tall cliff right now.

 

[mechBgon]

I didn't want to discourage you with my #1 suggestion, but here it is: reinstall Windows from scratch. Sorry Jitsu, I hope it works out for the best.

 

[Jitsu]

^ do you think that will work?

I just did install.... and the problem occured.

 

[mechBgon]

Are the CDs, um... original?

 

[Jitsu]

yes.

 

[mechBgon]

Wierd Can you give a quick spec rundown on the last system, where they were working ok, and this new build where they're not? Like, brand and model of motherboard, operating system, etc. If the previous one was an off-the-shelf model, that info is ok too.

 

[waitman]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
Is the drive using the same drive letter (D:, E: or whatever) that it was using when the game was installed the very first time? If not, try swapping drive letters around in Disk Management so that it's got that letter. The game is looking for the CD, not just in any drive, but in THE drive... the drive from which it was initially installed when it wrote its registry entries. Or that's my educated guess, anyway

Find the configuration .INI file for that game/s and check to see if the paths are the same as the drive letter assigned, the drive you are using now. Same thing happened to me and it was always this very problem. Usually editing the file corrected the problem. Check the whole file maybe 2, 3 0r more instances of the path to the cd drive. Other than that a reinstall of the game always worked for me.

You just got a new drive? What kind? I got the optorite dd201, was driving me crazy till I got the latest firmware installed. Still seems a little odd sometimes, but doesn't burn any coasters.

 

[Jitsu]

Whats up with this...

In device manager it finds my CD drive but it says this ...

Location 0: Location 0 (Secondary ATA Channel)

^ That ok? That where it shoudl be?

 

[Jitsu]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
Wierd Can you give a quick spec rundown on the last system, where they were working ok, and this new build where they're not? Like, brand and model of motherboard, operating system, etc. If the previous one was an off-the-shelf model, that info is ok too.

Old system: dell 4100 series... no mods
os: win xp home
no problems whatsoever... well it was slow, thats why I upgraded =]

New system:
mobo: gigabyte ga-7n400 pro2
cd drive: tdk dvdrw840g
os: win xp pro
cpu: amd athalon xp 2800+

 

[Jitsu]

You just got a new drive? What kind?

tdk.... aid+840

 

[Jitsu]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
Disk Management

Where's this at?

 

[glugglug]

Are you running Alchohol? The disk emulation features interfere with some copy protections.

 

[Jitsu]

^ no disk emulation software was ever on this new system. ever.

 

[Jitsu]

ttt

 

[Jitsu]

ttt

 

[scrawl]

Originally posted by: Jitsu

Originally posted by: mechBgon
Disk Management

Where's this at?

Alternate-click My Computer -> Manage

 

[Jitsu]

that didnt help

 

[Jitsu]

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