PC freezes after a few CD's ripped

[BrianB]

Mark I've been searching the internet for a resolution to this. I notice it doesn't happen with just CD ripping. Anytime I put a disk in this happens. Sometimes. I put in a disk to load some software last night and it froze three times in a row while it tried to load the contents. The below fix was suggested by someone at another site but it is not for XP.

To prevent this problem, follow these steps:

Click the Start button, point to Settings, then click Control Panel.
Double-click the System icon.
On the Performance tab, click File System.
Click the CD-ROM tab.
In the Optimize Access Pattern For box, click the setting that matches the CD-ROM drive you are using. Click OK. Restart the computer when you are prompted to.
If steps 1-5 do not solve the problem, repeat steps 1-4. In the Optimize Access Pattern For box, click No Read Ahead. Click OK. Restart the computer when you are prompted to.

It's called Read Ahead and sounds kind of like what I have. How do I adjust this in XP?

 

[Mark56]

Sorry, I have been tied up with some very time consuming work leaving little time to spare on this forum.

Still don't have the time to commit fully to this forum but might suggest you look for resetting or deleting filters for the CD drive.

Not sure how you could convert the above for XP, I am not familiar with Read Ahead

 

[BrianB]

I'll try anything. How do I do that?

 

[Mark56]

Just do a search on-line to "delete upper and lower filters in XP" and guides should be easily available.

You could first try this, try booting into safe mode and removing everything under CD-ROM drives in Device Manager, then reboot to normal mode and let Windows re-detect it.

Srry I can't spare much time to investigate this problem for you but will help the best I can.