Direct-X can't find my CD-ROMS

baltor · Dec 25, 2004

I'm having a problem with a couple of games. I have a Athlon XP 2.08Ghz with a Gig of Ram running Windows XP SP1 and Direct X 9.0b.

The games in question install fine but when I try to run them it tells me to insert the CR in the CD-ROM drive even though the CD is there.

I think it may be a Direct-X problem as both use Direct-X. When I run dxdiag, the resulting dxdiag.txt file does not list any CD-ROM drives. Here is an excerpt....

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Disk & DVD/CD-ROM Drives
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Drive: C:
Free Space: 86.5 GB
Total Space: 108.3 GB
File System: NTFS
Model: n/a

Drive: G:
Free Space: 0.4 GB
Total Space: 2.0 GB
File System: FAT32
Model: n/a

I have a DVD-ROM as drive D: and a CD-R drive as drive F:

Thanks for your help!

Baltor

Major Attitude · Dec 26, 2004

You dont have service pack 2. You dont have DirectX 9.0c. Im guessing you have a lot of drivers also out of date and are not keeping up.

1 Get the latest motherboard drivers, should fix it.
2 Complete spyware and virus scan (required before step 3)
3 Update to service pack 2 and turn automatic updates on.

baltor · Dec 28, 2004

Major Attitude said:

You dont have service pack 2.

I did install SP2....I had major problems with my mouse and had huge increases in boot-up time. I uninstalled it. I do not have 9.0c, I can get that and I will try the latest mobo drivers.

Baltor
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