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Title: DVD problem
Post by: Impreza on July 03, 2005, 17:52

Hi, this is the problem. A few days ago I reformated my XP hard drive, then installed windows and drivers everything looks ok and works ok. Even the DVD plays films ok but when I load a DVD game thats where the problem starts,it loads the game ok but when I try to start the game I get "Can not locate DVD-ROM, please insert correct DVD-ROM and restart application".
Thank you for any help.

Title: DVD problem
Post by: Sandra on July 03, 2005, 18:07

Hi Impreza and :welcome:

If you look in device manager what does it show your DVD rom as, on some reinstalls XP loads scsi drivers for some reason on non scsi devices  :(
This could cause a problem like you are experiencing possibly.
Do you have the drivers cd for your mobo ?
If so, and the device manager shows as scsi for the DVD then replace the IDE drivers from the cd.
If this doesnt work or if its not showing as scsi get back to us please  :)

Title: DVD problem
Post by: Impreza on July 03, 2005, 18:50

Hi Sandra thanks for the welcome.
I better start of by saying that I know nothing about PC's.  In the device manager it states that this device is working properly! When you start talking about scsi and IDE I'm very sorry but you lost me when you started about scsi thingys.
Sorry.

Title: DVD problem
Post by: joudi on July 03, 2005, 19:57

Hi Impreza and  :welcome:

When Sandra talks about techical things of computer, lot of us get lost too,   :)    So don't be discoraged.

What if she starts talking about piloting an aeroplane?    :wink:    Oh  God !!!

She'll be soon here to simplify things, anyway.


But just a little question:

Does your problem happen to all inserted DVD games, (original and copied ones) ?

Title: DVD problem
Post by: Impreza on July 03, 2005, 20:44

Hi Joudi and also thanks for the welcome.
Yes it happens on all original DVD games. I don't use copied ones.

Title: DVD problem
Post by: Sandra on July 03, 2005, 21:51

Sorry about that.

Just a brief explanation about SCSI and IDE, the usual drives in a pc, hard drives and cd and dvd are IDE.
In older more expensive pcs and sometimes in servers they tend to use SCSI drives in place of IDE ones for faster access, read/write speeds and also they are "hot swappable" so you dont need to shut the pc down to replace a failed drive.
Not many people would use SCSI but sometimes XP detects the IDE drive as being SCSI and installs the wrong drivers which can cause problems.

When you go into device manager if you click on the + next to DVD/CD Rom drives it will show your DVD, if it says the make of your drive and doesnt say SCSI next to it then the cause that I was thinking of isnt that one.

Title: DVD problem
Post by: joudi on July 03, 2005, 21:53

Have you tried to update your "DirectX"?

You may get it from here ! (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=0A9B6820-BFBB-4799-9908-D418CDEAC197&displaylang=en)

Title: DVD problem
Post by: Impreza on July 03, 2005, 22:46

Yep I have Direct X 9c.
Nice sigs by the way.

Title: DVD problem
Post by: joudi on July 03, 2005, 23:25

Quote from: "Impreza"

Nice sigs by the way.

That's because of Sandras' expert beautiful fingers !    :)

Title: DVD problem
Post by: joudi on July 04, 2005, 04:37

You may get some help HERE (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=228985) I hope.    :)