Cd rom noises that will not go away!

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sds5150

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I have been working on a friends desktop. It is a dell 2400 system. Some time ago the cd rom drive (Samsung sc-148A) started making a scratchy sound over the speakers when an audio CD is played. It almost sounds like the sound is slightly slower too. The other drive plays the same cd perfectly. He did a restore back a few months and it went away. Now it's back again. I want to find the root of the problem. It runs on the OS generic IDE drivers, so I guess I can't reinstall the drivers. No errors in Device Manager. Everyone says to check the DMA. It is enabled and I even disabled it for a test. The drive has been set for digital audio and also disabled for testing. I checked the cables, even though an earlier restor fixed it. I am going to tear my hair out!! I ran IDE diagonstics from bios and the hard drive passes, but the secondary CD rom and the other CDRW come up "diagonstics nots supported". What do I do now? Please help me I am about to give up!! Thanks. :eek:
 
It sounds liek a driver problem, im shure if you get to the manufacturers sight or what not they will have some new drivers. Or you could just replace the drive completely.
 
yeah don't worry about physical drive drivers. I'm guessing on-board sound? Thats probably where the problem is, try turning the volume on the windows control down and compensating with the on-speaker volume and see if the problem persists
 
Thanks for the smart remarks. The information I have gathered thus far led me to believe that the system's origional drivers could not be altered. People generally ask questions because they want to learn. Thanks for your help.
 
sds5150 said:
Thanks for the smart remarks. The information I have gathered thus far led me to believe that the system's origional drivers could not be altered. People generally ask questions because they want to learn. Thanks for your help.
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I'm not to sure if this is sarcasm or an actual thank you.

P.S. ALL drivers can be altered. It's just a matter of how much time you want to spend doing it.
 
Ok...so this is what I get for tring to help. Besides not reinstall the same drivers get new ones from the manufacturer like I said, or like Cromwell said try adjusting your sound drivers for your card. But does it do this while playing sound from like a website. Because if a restore fixed this then it has to be a driver problem cause I had the same problem except with a different driver error, downlowded a new one and I was set.
 
1. WTH?
2. While drivers can be 'altered' it takes significant background understanding to do so
3. DMA wont matter here.
4. As for diagnostics, im surprised the one drive ran it (optical drives are supposed to have SMART and neither do they); regardless the 2nd optical drive not running diagnostics isnt a cause for alarm (and even if it ran, it wouldnt tell you anything much)
5. What optical drives are we dealing with (make, model and firmware rev)
 
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