Halo in my CD drive won't stop spinning!

[Jacmert]

It won't stop once I boot up. It just keeps going on at a moderate speed indefinately. It's driving me nuts. I think it started once I installed it and rebooted sometime later. Btw, I'm running an i9300 with Sony DW-65A (I think that's right) DVD burner (dual-layer, +/-RW).

I've patched Halo and everything, and even installed Custom Edition. No change.

[somms]

It won't stop once I boot up. It just keeps going on at a moderate speed indefinately. It's driving me nuts. I think it started once I installed it and rebooted sometime later. Btw, I'm running an i9300 with Sony DW-65A (I think that's right) DVD burner (dual-layer, +/-RW).

I've patched Halo and everything, and even installed Custom Edition. No change.
http://m0002.gamecopyworld.com/games/pc_halo.shtml#Halo v1.04 & v1.05 [ENGLISH] No-CD/Fixed EXE

[Jacmert]

Interesting; thx for the workaround link. I'm wondering if there's any explanation or solution to the problem, though, even though I plan to boot up from now on without the Halo CD in the drive.

[Yoob@NBF]

Does it to me with warcraft3 Only after the machine comes out of hibernation or standby you could try holding the shift button when you insert the halo cd.