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CD-ROMs Won't Initialize


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26-May-1999, 04:38 PM #1
I've got an IDE Toshiba 32X and a SCSI Plexwriter 8/20 burner, and I can't get either one to initialize software that requires a CD (mostly games: Starcraft, Tribes, Phantom Menace). I can startup software off the hard drive just fine, but when a certain program requires a CD to startup I can't. The computer recognizes when a CD is inserted and I can even view the files on the CD from each device. When I first installed the burner I could run software off both just fine, but recently I took out 128 megs of memory and I've had the problem.
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27-May-1999, 07:43 PM #2
Do you mean your CDs don't auto start? Can you give us an example of what you mean exactly - it seems to me that if you can view the files on the CD, everything is ok... I am obviously missing something.
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28-May-1999, 12:14 PM #3
My software will autostart (the options menu will come up) but the program won't run. Any software that requires the CD won't work-but I can see all the files on the CD itself.
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29-May-1999, 06:58 PM #4
Sounds like a software conflict to me.

Are you running Win98? If so, go to Start, Run, and type in MSCONFIG. Turn off all startup files and reboot. Try a CD and let us know.
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03-Jun-1999, 04:28 PM #5
I have had a simalar problem. I can view a cd-rom in win explorer, but any time I try to run an executable from the cdrom (mainly install progs) it causes a GPF. This happens on both my SCSI and IDE cdroms. If I copy the contents of the cd-rom to my HDD everything runs ok. I'll try the msconfig, anything else I should look at?
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03-Jun-1999, 10:52 PM #6
One big culprid to this behaviour is a Temp folder that is nott being cleaned out ... Go to C:\Windows\Temp and remove ALL the files in there ...

Hope this helps ...
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06-Jun-1999, 10:26 AM #7
OK, I cleaned the temp folder, disabled everything in startup using msconfig and I'm still receiving GPF's. Heres part of the error code:
ISSET_SE caused a general protection fault
in module IS_SETUP.EXE at 0001:000032cc.

I recieve the same info for any cd. Anything else I can try?
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06-Jun-1999, 11:41 AM #8
I want the search function back! There have been previous posts about the IS_Setup problem, and I believe they had solutions. I don't recall what they were though... Hopefully someone else here will. I think it was in the Software forum, about 3 or 4 weeks ago, if you want to go manually hunting.

I will try to remember what it was all about...

Ok - check this out and see if it helps:

http://support.microsoft.com/support.../Q192/8/90.ASP

[This message has been edited by LarryCore (edited 06-06-99).]
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08-Jun-1999, 01:05 PM #9
Thanks All,

disabling Norton AutoProtect did the trick. One more issue solved.

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08-Jun-1999, 07:05 PM #10
Great! Now, if I can just remember that for next time (since I can't search for it)...

I'll go ahead and close this one down.
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