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This is the most common problem I have found under WinXP. DVD drives not behaving properly.
Here is an extract from tweakxp.......

"Are you running 2 drives?
eg. DVD-Rom + CD-WriterROM??

But You can get your CD-WriterRom to work properly, but your dvd-rom runs as a standard cd-rom drive and its not picking up DVD's?

Heres The FIX:
Navigate to your device manager located in you system; in your control panel...Once there, click on "ATA/ATAPI controllers" open: "Secondary IDE channel" click the "Advanced Settings" tab: If your DVD-ROM is the master and your CD-WriterRom is a slave change the device 0: Transfer Mode to "PI0 Mode" in the drop down menu... or if your CD-WriterRom is master and your DVD-ROM is slave (which is really rare) change the device 1:transfer Mode to "PI0 Mode"in the drop down menu... Then restart your computer even if it doesn't ask you to!"


Note to DBLbass: I have the exact same problem with playing audio cds in media player. Pulsar is my only sound card, thus audio must be extracted digitally from the cd, and played as a wav.
If you have your cd drive connected to another soundcard for playback you might want to try unchecking digital playback in the cd-rom drives properties.
Winamp 2.78 doesn't seem to be very good at
extracting digital audio data for playback.
Im waiting for winamp3. Which is said to have better Xp implementation, although I have not tried the beta yet

Have you tried the "CD Reader for Winamp"???
I believe the latest version is 1.95 and can be downloaded here . Works like a breeze for me!

Be carefull w that TweakXP, let it guide you but don't follow exactly what they say if you don't know what you're doing. One guy suggests to delete MSN Messenger files instead of inunstalling. Funny. And the way he says it, made me ROTFLMAO!

Good luck w your CD's...

I will try changing the PIO mode settings. I cuurently have my CD on channel 2, along with a HDD which I use as quickee backup, my channel 1 having two more HDDs, one OS/apps, one strictly audio files. on the CD/HDD channel, I have now forgotten which I put as master and which slave. Will go home and check.

Hope this works.

Meanwhile, I have now tried Winamp instead of media player for playing CDs. And yes, Pulsar is my only sound card, so winamp must convert to wav and send to pulsr wav source driver, just as with MedPlyr. Under winamp, my earlier TOC reading plrblem seems better than with MedPlyr, but after playing for twenty minutes or so, the sound goes all distorted - keeps playing but sounds squashed.

I'll try the CD reading plugin linked above.