CDex problem..

[Mavrick007]

Hey there, I can not seem to get CDex to pick up any cd that is in the drive. It sees the drive and I've changed the drive type but it will not refresh or see any disc.
Any ideas? It's a fresh install of CDex so I haven't had it working before. The drive(s) I'm tryin the program on are the Liton DVD 16x and a Liteon CDRW 40x12x48x.

 

[igowerf]

Try installing the ASPI layer drivers: Directions.

These directions show you how to install the 4.60 drivers which are supposedly better than the 4.71s.

 

[Mavrick007]

That sounds great, but my os is Win98SE and those directions are for WinXP.

I am wondering what a qualifying product for those 4.60 drivers are? Cause I have alot of programs from Adaptec that just aren't installed right now (such as Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, EZ CD creator 4/5).

 

[Need4Speed]

Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat

.. that woudl be adobe

try another ripper

 

[Mavrick007]

Crap, nevermind I had Adobe products on the mind cause I got a new program yesterday.

Edit: Adaptec did make EZ Cd Creator 4 though (not sure about 5, but I know 6 is made by Roxio).

I do have an old Adaptec 2940 SCSI card, but I have no use for it now.
I tried the trick for putting the 4.60 drivers on like with the one done for the XP test and it didn't work.
I tried the test for current ASPI drivers and it came back with files either missing or replaced with older files and I couldn't upgrade the drivers.

Right now I'm looking at the workaround to install a 'fake" SCSI device.

 

[nebula]

I've ran into this before. I used to have two version of Adaptec's ASPI layer. One didn't complain when installing, I'd install that one first, then the latest one. I'n not sure if I have them anymore, I can check when I get home. But, on my work PC, I have v4.71a2 I think this one may work without complaint. PM me your email and I can send it to you, it's about 500K.

I don't think you need to do the fake SCSI device. I used to work around this all the time, just find a version that will install, then update it. Sorry I can't remember what version that is.

 

[Mavrick007]

Wow, what an irritating piece of software (the ASPI drivers, not CDex).
I tried the Force ASPI progy and rebooted and then even WMP wouldn't even let me "play" digital audio, only in analog.
I tried CDex after that and it didn't even recognize the drive anymore. So, I thought that I might as well try "reinstalling" the
4.60 drivers now since it was supposed to be on there so it should at least let either install again or update.

This time it let me install the drivers and after a reboot and playing around with CDex's settings for awhile I was able to see the tracks in CDex finally!

Now to do some ripping..

Thanx all.