Microsoft KB Archive/155736

= CD Player Seems to Hang with Multiple-CD Changer =

Article ID: 155736

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

-

APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition

-



This article was previously published under Q155736



SYMPTOMS
When you are using CD Player to play audio CDs on a multiple-CD changer, CD Player seems to stop responding (hang). After 30 to 60 seconds, CD Player begins responding again.

In addition, once CD Player has loaded and you are playing a CD, attempting to access another CD in the changer from within Windows NT Explorer causes CD Player to display the following message:

Data or no disk loaded



CAUSE
CD Player was not designed for use with multiple-CD changers. The amount of time it takes CD Player to initialize for a multiple-CD changer is dependent upon the size of the changer. Because of the information presented to CD Player when another CD is accessed, CD Player cannot properly interpret what is being done with the drive.



RESOLUTION
To have CD Player properly display an audio CD when accessing other CDs, quit CD Player and restart it.



MORE INFORMATION
For each CD, CD Player views the CD in one of two states: Loaded or Ejected. However, with multiple-CD changers, there is a third state: Unloaded. Unloaded means the CD is in the drive, but not currently under the CD-ROM drive's read head. CD Player interprets an unloaded CD as an ejected CD. However, because the CD is not actually ejected, CD Player is never updated.

Additional query words: prodnt

Keywords: KB155736

-

[mailto:TECHNET@MICROSOFT.COM Send feedback to Microsoft]

© Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.