Cd-rom shuts off!

[OilPatch197]

When I'm playing a game, it must have a CD in the CD-ROM, but when I'm on the Internet gamming, I dosn't use the CD-Rom until I'm out of a game, problem is when I'm playing the CD-rom quits spinning, so after the game the CD-rom has to take a few seconds and speed back up! This is frustrating, and what I have learned is you can't do anything about it, it is programmed into the CDROM, but I just had a Ideal.

What if I had a small little program that would "access" the drive every minute or so, kinda like double clicking the "cdrom" drive in explorer, if there is a disk in the drive it will spin up, so if you had a program that would do this over and over, with adjustable rates, you Cdrom would never spin down! Is there a program like this out there?

Thanks...

[Platypus]

Originally posted by OilPatch197
your Cdrom would never spin down!

After laser failure, probably the second largest cause of failure of CD-ROM drives would be spin motor failure. Continuous spin would shorten the life of the spin motor considerably, which is one important reason the drive spins down after a period of disuse.

A couple of seconds to spin up again seems pretty inconsequential really...

[TheGorx]

if you have space on your hard drive you could try game drive which is a virtual cd drive for 20 bucks

http://www.farstone.com

[OilPatch197]

I thought about a Fake cd drive, but I done installed the game, and it will only look at my D: drive

[Platypus]

You could probably change the CD-ROM drive designation in Windows to E: and set up a copy of the game CD as D: with the virtual drive above or another similar one. A Google search should find some possibilities.

[OilPatch197]

well I tried Virtual CD above, it wouldn't install, it would get to the "you must restart your computer" part and I restart and I get a BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH that says a vxd error, so I restored the registry, all is fine I'm running Win98se

I will try their competitors.

[TheGorx]

that's strange
I've never had a problem with it
you might want to create and check your bootlog

check out you config.sys and autoexec.bat files and also see if you have any other third party vxd's that might be conflicting.

[OilPatch197]

Okay I got the correct version of virtual Cd, the one that was giving my all those Vxd errors was for windows 2000.


But after I install the CORRECT virtual CD program, I LOSE my Virtual Drives and I can click on drive "F" but it says cannot create drive. Oh well..
What other CD emulators are out there?

[TheGorx]

that's strange too

but here is another program
but I've never used it
I was thinking about it until I saw the gamedrive was only 20 bucks or $35 for a 5 system home network

http://www.v-com.com/product/cd_ind.html