Game can't find game cd in cd-rom drive for any EA Games

[ray]

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Can some help me out? I'm desperate to play MOHPA and can't. Error
message states that cd #1 not in drive, when it is. Even when I insert
disk and autoplay brings up menu it can't find cd.

Just changed motherboard and video card to play and now this stinking
error message.

I play BF1942, BF vietnam, MOHAA War Chest.

All games played ok until I bought Vietnam and had to upgrade my system.

XP-Pro, Athlon 2200, 512 ram, 256 video, PLextor cd drive, 2 hard drives.

Thanks,
Ray

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: alt.games.battlefield1942 (More info?)

> Just changed motherboard and video card to play and now this stinking
> error message.
>

Most obvious thing I can think of is check the cables to make sure your
ribbon isn't on backwards (some don't have the notch) and make sure you
didn't offset or bend a pin. Even though we've all done hardware upgrades a
hundred times we've probably all bent one pin in our lifetime. I also had a
similar problem because I didn't tie the ribbon cable up and it was able to
contact the CPU fan one time. That contact caused a razor thin cut across
the cable which you couldn't see unless you bent the cable just "so" but was
enough to give me a headache for a week chasing down the bug.

After that, I'd say install another CD drive if you have one laying around.

good luck!!
George

 

[bug]

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On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 22:06:01 GMT, Ray <rhurst@jps.net> wrote:

>Can some help me out? I'm desperate to play MOHPA and can't. Error
>message states that cd #1 not in drive, when it is. Even when I insert
>disk and autoplay brings up menu it can't find cd.
>
>Just changed motherboard and video card to play and now this stinking
>error message.
>
>I play BF1942, BF vietnam, MOHAA War Chest.
>
>All games played ok until I bought Vietnam and had to upgrade my system.
>
>XP-Pro, Athlon 2200, 512 ram, 256 video, PLextor cd drive, 2 hard drives.

Any chance that you made a hardware configuration to the system after
you installed the game that caused a change in the CD-ROM drive letter?

 

[ray]

Archived from groups: alt.games.battlefield1942 (More info?)

I did make hardware changes. The cd used to be F: drive and now is D:
drive. But I installed MOHPA after the change, and tried reloading the
others. Could it be a copy protection system?

Thanks
Ray

bug wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 22:06:01 GMT, Ray <rhurst@jps.net> wrote:
>
>
>>Can some help me out? I'm desperate to play MOHPA and can't. Error
>>message states that cd #1 not in drive, when it is. Even when I insert
>>disk and autoplay brings up menu it can't find cd.
>>
>>Just changed motherboard and video card to play and now this stinking
>>error message.
>>
>>I play BF1942, BF vietnam, MOHAA War Chest.
>>
>>All games played ok until I bought Vietnam and had to upgrade my system.
>>
>>XP-Pro, Athlon 2200, 512 ram, 256 video, PLextor cd drive, 2 hard drives.
>
>
> Any chance that you made a hardware configuration to the system after
> you installed the game that caused a change in the CD-ROM drive letter?

 

[Andy]

Archived from groups: alt.games.battlefield1942 (More info?)

Had the same problem with this and other EA games discs the problem seems to
involve having more than two cd/dvd drives.
If you haven't got more than two physical drives have you got any virtual
drives?
I have two physical drives, DVD r/w and DVD ROM also one virtual drive via
Alcohol 120%.
My problem was instantly solved when I changed my Alcohol 120% virtual drive
from one to zero.

Cheers
Andyjay.


"Halon1211" <sentry40@nospam.yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:GWFDd.16008$c%.11719@okepread05...
>> Just changed motherboard and video card to play and now this stinking
>> error message.
>>
>
> Most obvious thing I can think of is check the cables to make sure your
> ribbon isn't on backwards (some don't have the notch) and make sure you
> didn't offset or bend a pin. Even though we've all done hardware upgrades
> a hundred times we've probably all bent one pin in our lifetime. I also
> had a similar problem because I didn't tie the ribbon cable up and it was
> able to contact the CPU fan one time. That contact caused a razor thin
> cut across the cable which you couldn't see unless you bent the cable just
> "so" but was enough to give me a headache for a week chasing down the bug.
>
> After that, I'd say install another CD drive if you have one laying
> around.
>
> good luck!!
> George
>

 

[Guest]

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"Andy" <andyjay1974@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Had the same problem with this and other EA games discs the problem seems
> to involve having more than two cd/dvd drives.
> If you haven't got more than two physical drives have you got any virtual
> drives?
> I have two physical drives, DVD r/w and DVD ROM also one virtual drive via
> Alcohol 120%.
> My problem was instantly solved when I changed my Alcohol 120% virtual
> drive from one to zero.

I've got 6 Alcohol virtual drives enabled, all of them contain an image for
the games I play most often (saves so much time hunting for discs).

I seem to recall that sometimes a game doesn't like it when you use the 2nd
CD drive. If you have CD drives on D and E then always install from D...
Use the first one, as this is often the one it checks.

You could also check the DMA settings for the drive, but I don't think that
would be the problem.



H

 

[Guest]

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"Andy" <andyjay1974@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> Phew!!
> Jesus I thought my setup was complicated!!
> How the hell do you manage?
> Thanks for all the info I obviously need a serious look again at my system
> and see where I am going wrong.


That's not complicated... It's just a case of having to much spare time to
play with gadgets.

Trust me, you don't want to see the wiring in my house.




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