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Kenwood CD-ROM UCR-412 52x no longer working!

Asked by DeannaRV in Miscellaneous Hardware

Tags: cd, error, player

In my husband's computer running Win98 SE, I have installed a Kenwood 52x CD-ROM.  I bought it used a few years back and it's always run just fine.

Lately it has started acting up, not playing audio tracks properly (using WinAmp), and causing Explorer to crash.  He is, naturally, greatly upset by this, so I thought perhaps I could fix whatever ailed it.

First I uninstalled WinAmp, thinking that was the cause, somehow.  It apparently wasn't.  I tried playing my CDs with Windows CD Player, but it kept freezing and unfreezing during playback.

Then I went to DriverGuide and downloaded a firmware update for the UCR-412.  I installed that from DOS.  Nothing appeared to change, but when I restarted the PC, I couldn't get the CD-ROM to play at all.  The drive (F:) was visible in Explorer, and noted correctly in Device Mangler, but I received the "device not ready" error message each time I clicked on F: drive.

Uh-oh.  Not a good sign.

Not wanting to declare defeat just yet, I found another file from DriverGuide for the 52x and installed that.  This file put some changes in my config.sys and autoexec.bat files in the hopes that that might help.  The lines added to the config.sys say
device=cdrom\kwdcd.sys/d:KWDDRV0/v
  and to the autoexec.bat
cdrom\mscdex/d:KWDRV0/m:10.

Well, the CD-ROM is still not working.  Do I declare it officially dead, or is there something else I can try, a diagnostic utility of some kind, to see if this drive still has something left to it?

Thanks for any and all help!

Deanna   ;-)



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