After the last Update, ourCDROM drive won't load most of my son's games. When
he loads his disk into the CDROM drive, the initial screen comes up, but when
he clicks on the play option, he gets an error message telling him the
program won't start and to check to see if the disk is in the drive. This has
happened for 3 of the 4 games he regularly plays from two different companies
(Blizzard and Lucas Arts). One game will play, but he gets an error message
first indicating the disk needs to be fixed or debugged. We can play the
disks on another computer, so it is not the disks. We have turned off the
secruity software but this had no effect. We have uninstalled and reinstalled
Warcraft III multiple times, to no avail. We have removed the patches from
Blizzard my son uses for his on-line game, but this did not help the
situation either. We can go into My Computer and see the disk, and we can
play the movies that come with the game disk from the initial screen, we just
can't play the game itself. Audio CDs work fine. We have not added anything
new to the computer for quite some time, and these programs have played for
at least two years without any other problems. Viral scans indicated the
computer was clean (we run these regularly), we also regularly run Spybot and
AdAware to detect any spyware. I am wondering if one of the security patches
is the culprit and could be interfering with the autorun? Any suggestions?

You can backup your computer then try to reinstall windows. Maybe it help.

"genesrus1" wrote:

> After the last Update, ourCDROM drive won't load most of my son's games. When
> he loads his disk into the CDROM drive, the initial screen comes up, but when
> he clicks on the play option, he gets an error message telling him the
> program won't start and to check to see if the disk is in the drive. This has
> happened for 3 of the 4 games he regularly plays from two different companies
> (Blizzard and Lucas Arts). One game will play, but he gets an error message
> first indicating the disk needs to be fixed or debugged. We can play the
> disks on another computer, so it is not the disks. We have turned off the
> secruity software but this had no effect. We have uninstalled and reinstalled
> Warcraft III multiple times, to no avail. We have removed the patches from
> Blizzard my son uses for his on-line game, but this did not help the
> situation either. We can go into My Computer and see the disk, and we can
> play the movies that come with the game disk from the initial screen, we just
> can't play the game itself. Audio CDs work fine. We have not added anything
> new to the computer for quite some time, and these programs have played for
> at least two years without any other problems. Viral scans indicated the
> computer was clean (we run these regularly), we also regularly run Spybot and
> AdAware to detect any spyware. I am wondering if one of the security patches
> is the culprit and could be interfering with the autorun? Any suggestions?

You can buy or borrow a new CDROM, test it in your computer. If it work -->
there is problem with that CDRom else --> reinstall Windows

"genesrus1" wrote:

> After the last Update, ourCDROM drive won't load most of my son's games. When
> he loads his disk into the CDROM drive, the initial screen comes up, but when
> he clicks on the play option, he gets an error message telling him the
> program won't start and to check to see if the disk is in the drive. This has
> happened for 3 of the 4 games he regularly plays from two different companies
> (Blizzard and Lucas Arts). One game will play, but he gets an error message
> first indicating the disk needs to be fixed or debugged. We can play the
> disks on another computer, so it is not the disks. We have turned off the
> secruity software but this had no effect. We have uninstalled and reinstalled
> Warcraft III multiple times, to no avail. We have removed the patches from
> Blizzard my son uses for his on-line game, but this did not help the
> situation either. We can go into My Computer and see the disk, and we can
> play the movies that come with the game disk from the initial screen, we just
> can't play the game itself. Audio CDs work fine. We have not added anything
> new to the computer for quite some time, and these programs have played for
> at least two years without any other problems. Viral scans indicated the
> computer was clean (we run these regularly), we also regularly run Spybot and
> AdAware to detect any spyware. I am wondering if one of the security patches
> is the culprit and could be interfering with the autorun? Any suggestions?

I have just got a similar problem, i can play mechwarrior 4 but not the
expansion black knight or other games such as emperor battle for dune, though
im not sure what i did to stop them working............

"genesrus1" wrote:

> After the last Update, ourCDROM drive won't load most of my son's games. When
> he loads his disk into the CDROM drive, the initial screen comes up, but when
> he clicks on the play option, he gets an error message telling him the
> program won't start and to check to see if the disk is in the drive. This has
> happened for 3 of the 4 games he regularly plays from two different companies
> (Blizzard and Lucas Arts). One game will play, but he gets an error message
> first indicating the disk needs to be fixed or debugged. We can play the
> disks on another computer, so it is not the disks. We have turned off the
> secruity software but this had no effect. We have uninstalled and reinstalled
> Warcraft III multiple times, to no avail. We have removed the patches from
> Blizzard my son uses for his on-line game, but this did not help the
> situation either. We can go into My Computer and see the disk, and we can
> play the movies that come with the game disk from the initial screen, we just
> can't play the game itself. Audio CDs work fine. We have not added anything
> new to the computer for quite some time, and these programs have played for
> at least two years without any other problems. Viral scans indicated the
> computer was clean (we run these regularly), we also regularly run Spybot and
> AdAware to detect any spyware. I am wondering if one of the security patches
> is the culprit and could be interfering with the autorun? Any suggestions?