Morning Gents,
After a weekend spent with my head in google and a multitude of forums & help pages I come crawling broken and defeated in need of your help.
The problem, as the subject suggests, is that I am unable to play any audio CD. The problem doesn't affect just one program, I've tried iTunes WMP and Creative's media player, and all have the same issue.
The drivers read the discs fine, iTunes and WMP even pull the CD info from the CDDB and display all the track titles. However as soon as I click play/import it all goes wrong. It varies from CD to CD, but essentially the first 30 seconds of the first track will play and then it will just skip through all tracks as if they were 0 seconds long. When trying to import the tracks in iTunes they will import as either 0 seconds long or 789 hours long and obviously not play. The same goes for WMP.
As I said at the start I've spent the weekend with my head in google trying to solve this to no avail. However after reading many, many forum threads and help topics (it feels like I've read the whole internet), it seems many have had this issue. It is not the issue solved by disabling CD error correction in iTunes, nor is it a hardware issue. The drives work perfectly.
The solution to others has been to install nvidia chipset drivers (specifically mediashield drivers), which I have done about 10 times using various versions to no avail,. I've tried removing all chipset/RAID drivers again to no avail. I've tried re-installs of iTunes and soundcard drivers.
I've also done a full format and re-install of Windows (was going to so this anyway to change driver partitions and boot drive) and the issue is still there after install.
After my windows install I installed all drivers and SP1, then iTunes and tried to import/play a CD, same issue. I tried the same thing after installing all my software and games, with a quick test after each one. Nothing.
It doesn't matter which CDs I use, new CDs I bought on Saturday have the same problem as ones I've burned myself. And even more confusing, I used this very system to rip all the disc to iTunes shortly after I built it in March with no problems.
Basically I am 100% totally stumped. The only thing left in my arsenal of tools is a hammer and killing it with fire, which obvioiusly I don't want to resort to as while it would solve the problem, it would also be messy and expensive.
So guys, I am now at your mercy. Quite simply HEEEEELLLLP!!!!!
After a weekend spent with my head in google and a multitude of forums & help pages I come crawling broken and defeated in need of your help.
The problem, as the subject suggests, is that I am unable to play any audio CD. The problem doesn't affect just one program, I've tried iTunes WMP and Creative's media player, and all have the same issue.
The drivers read the discs fine, iTunes and WMP even pull the CD info from the CDDB and display all the track titles. However as soon as I click play/import it all goes wrong. It varies from CD to CD, but essentially the first 30 seconds of the first track will play and then it will just skip through all tracks as if they were 0 seconds long. When trying to import the tracks in iTunes they will import as either 0 seconds long or 789 hours long and obviously not play. The same goes for WMP.
As I said at the start I've spent the weekend with my head in google trying to solve this to no avail. However after reading many, many forum threads and help topics (it feels like I've read the whole internet), it seems many have had this issue. It is not the issue solved by disabling CD error correction in iTunes, nor is it a hardware issue. The drives work perfectly.
The solution to others has been to install nvidia chipset drivers (specifically mediashield drivers), which I have done about 10 times using various versions to no avail,. I've tried removing all chipset/RAID drivers again to no avail. I've tried re-installs of iTunes and soundcard drivers.
I've also done a full format and re-install of Windows (was going to so this anyway to change driver partitions and boot drive) and the issue is still there after install.
After my windows install I installed all drivers and SP1, then iTunes and tried to import/play a CD, same issue. I tried the same thing after installing all my software and games, with a quick test after each one. Nothing.
It doesn't matter which CDs I use, new CDs I bought on Saturday have the same problem as ones I've burned myself. And even more confusing, I used this very system to rip all the disc to iTunes shortly after I built it in March with no problems.
Basically I am 100% totally stumped. The only thing left in my arsenal of tools is a hammer and killing it with fire, which obvioiusly I don't want to resort to as while it would solve the problem, it would also be messy and expensive.
So guys, I am now at your mercy. Quite simply HEEEEELLLLP!!!!!
