Posted on 03/18/2018 6:13:27 PM PDT by Carriage Hill
I'm not usually, if ever, asking for help on something, but my cd player won't play "Hitman" or anything else I feed it.
I can't find a "My CD" folder, as described in one of the articles' repair steps.
I'll do what I can from your suggestions, up to my limited knowledge base, to implement any ideas. Within reason.
Thanks in advance.
One easy thing to try is blowing the dust out of the mechanism. Worked for me many times, as dust gets inside them.
Wow, Sam. you’re experience sounds something like mine. I started with 45 rpm records, then 33 rpm records, then 8 tracks, then cassettes, then CD’s. And now everything is on an iPod, which could choke and croak at any time. Why bother?
it has a built-in CD drive, which Win File Mgr/ Win Explorer easily sees. Running 2009 Win-7 Pro 64 bit. It’s an industrial/office-grade HP/Compaq 6000 Pro Microtower. I don’t know what brand the CD player is.
Wait; Device Mangler says it’s a PLEXTOR PS-891SAF PLUS. At least it’s not Radio Shack.
I remember the good old days when we’d head out to our cars with a suitcase full of 8-track tapes.
And the cars were much more fun back then and weren’t $40,000 to $50,000.
Sure we didn’t make much money but hey....
Well VLC is a very small program you can download to try playing it.
Is the drive/device listed in Device Manager? Is there a “yellow bang!” icon?
It’s “Hitman”, there’s no song and no *.exe file to manually run it.
23 days in hospital for that and coronary artery disease. Had 5 stents as a bonus. I’m on borrowed time.
AWOL.
These days, I mostly just stream Sirius/XM radio, Pandora and Spotify playlists. Not sure what will be next.
It sounds better on vinyl.
If the drive/device isn’t listed in Device Manager, then that might point to why “no sound”.
Do you have any CD-R data discs (files, not music)? I assume those don’t display content either.
The drive may be getting power but the data lines may not be connected. If it isn’t too difficult, try removing the CD drive and reconnecting it.
Or before doing anything that would require disassembly, see if you can get MS to internally fix things. In Device Manager, go to Help and look up “Uninstall or Reinstall a Device”
MS may have sent you an update that caused it to stop working. You could try rolling back to a date before your CD player stopped working correctly.
One of my friends in HS had one with a 401 or maybe a 360. I think his was a 401. I’m trying to remember the color.
Who knew they’d become collector cars? I saw a couple in that small Kansas town I was in. So-so shape (not 401’s).
Sounds like Hillary’s IT guy already
got to it....
Says the dumbass newbie who has been here less than a year.
“My father had a pretty awesome country collection: Johnny Cash, George Jones, Wanda Jackson, etc.”
I like this part of your story. I worked at a 24 hour truck stop for almost 3 years. I was 16 years old when I started and worked closed to 40 hours a week and even more at some times. The juke box never stopped. As a junior/senior in high school, I knew every country singer there was. My step-dad was also a big country music fan. I know all of the 70’s country performers.
Yes. Yes it does.
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