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post #1 of 10
12/30/03 at 11:18pm
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Have any of you guys with the DVD-RW combo drive ever had problems playing games?

I've installed four games -- Max Payne2, Homeworld2, C&C: Generals and Call of Duty and each time it installs perfectly, but when I go to run the game it spins the cd rom hard and four minutes later I get this: "Could not authenticate CD in given time: Retry/Cancel?"

I've tried searching for drivers to update the device with but I've found nothing on Alienware's site.
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post #2 of 10
12/31/03 at 12:08am
Well i get mine tomarrow, and i play a lot of generals and generals zero hour. I'm hoping that just updating the ATI drivers will fix the problem that your experienceing, i hope....
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post #3 of 10
12/31/03 at 12:40am
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I'm using the very latest Omega drivers...

But video cards wouldn't have anything to do with authenticating the cd, wouldn't they??
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post #4 of 10
12/31/03 at 12:48am
I dont think so...
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post #5 of 10
12/31/03 at 2:33am
I don;lt think it has any thing to do with video drivers, you have any emulate daemon programs runnning?
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post #6 of 10
12/31/03 at 2:50am
do you have any external drives?
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post #7 of 10
12/31/03 at 2:51am
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No external drives whatsoever.

Emulate daemon programs? How would I check, just control alt delete and scan through my processes?
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post #8 of 10
12/31/03 at 10:23pm
does it make any angry sounds when it's trying to start up? Also does your dvd playback work ok. If you can watch a movie, you shouldnt be having a problem with the drive itself. Check to see if the cd's are cracked...if they were all shipped together they could all have the same damage. I've had a fully cracked cd install, but it wouldn't play (took me forever to see the crack). Good luck.
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post #9 of 10
12/31/03 at 11:48pm
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DVDs playback fine. Every so often the drive makes some "angry" noise, especially with my cdr discs that I burned.

None of my retail gaming cds are scratched, however.
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post #10 of 10
1/1/04 at 1:19am
Sounds like you might have a faulty drive. Give AW tech support a call or go to the AW customer support forums and post your problem there.
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