I've got an AOpen CRW4850. I'm running WinXP Pro. And I've got a problem.
I built this computer myself, with parts from NewEgg...not a company known for shipping faulty products (although the motherboard was fried and the floppy disk drive was fried...)
Program/Game CDs work, most of the time. Occasionally they overheat and there's bugger all you can do about it except shut down the computer and leave it to cool. This generally happens right after I've neglected to save C&C and, of course, it crashes at the end mission video without saving.
Anyway, I tried to play a CD the other day...WinAmp crashed. Oh well, the CDROM drive is just overheated. No, it seems to be more than that. I think it's one of those uber-cool ones that when played in WMP there's music videos or something, because I tried to play it in WMP9 (just downloaded about a week ago) and it pops up this little 'do you want to allow this site to run ActiveX stuffs' or somesuch message (I have in Internet Options to prompt for practically every little thing AX does.)
So, I click Yes. WMP crashes. Dang. Oh well. The thing is...it's still happening, and I don't know why. I've done various things like check DirectX for some weird Microsoft KB reason, I've sent an error report (like it's going to do anything) and of course since it's been happening a few days, restarted the computer. I've updated the firmware for my CDRW drive (no drivers on AOpen's website) but it did next to nothing, just span the CD a little bit faster. Viewing the 'what does this error report contain' thing shows me that it screwed up in mshtml.dll but I search MKB and can't find anything. Microsoft Support won't accept my Product ID for WMP which, of course, is exactly right, with or without hyphens.
Is it the CDRW, or is it something else?
Thanks :classic2:
I built this computer myself, with parts from NewEgg...not a company known for shipping faulty products (although the motherboard was fried and the floppy disk drive was fried...)
Program/Game CDs work, most of the time. Occasionally they overheat and there's bugger all you can do about it except shut down the computer and leave it to cool. This generally happens right after I've neglected to save C&C and, of course, it crashes at the end mission video without saving.
Anyway, I tried to play a CD the other day...WinAmp crashed. Oh well, the CDROM drive is just overheated. No, it seems to be more than that. I think it's one of those uber-cool ones that when played in WMP there's music videos or something, because I tried to play it in WMP9 (just downloaded about a week ago) and it pops up this little 'do you want to allow this site to run ActiveX stuffs' or somesuch message (I have in Internet Options to prompt for practically every little thing AX does.)
So, I click Yes. WMP crashes. Dang. Oh well. The thing is...it's still happening, and I don't know why. I've done various things like check DirectX for some weird Microsoft KB reason, I've sent an error report (like it's going to do anything) and of course since it's been happening a few days, restarted the computer. I've updated the firmware for my CDRW drive (no drivers on AOpen's website) but it did next to nothing, just span the CD a little bit faster. Viewing the 'what does this error report contain' thing shows me that it screwed up in mshtml.dll but I search MKB and can't find anything. Microsoft Support won't accept my Product ID for WMP which, of course, is exactly right, with or without hyphens.
Is it the CDRW, or is it something else?
Thanks :classic2:
