Do some audio CDs work wonderfully, but others do not?
You may need to upgrade the CD drive’s internal programming commands, often stored as read-only memory. On the Web site maintained by the CD player’s manufacturer, you may find the program — it is called firmware — you need to flash updated programming into the CD. If you have several programs that produce sound, but the problem occurs in only one program, you may have configured the program incorrectly. Go through the program’s options or preferences menu carefully. Move your lips while reading the choices, if you have to, to increase the chances that you will spot the erroneous entry. If everything is as it should be, you might be laboring with a clobbered file crucial to reproducing the program’s sounds. Reinstall the program. If the problem is cropping up in several programs, go to Multimedia section of Windows’ Control Panel. After you have clicked on the Multimedia icon, look in both the Playback and Recording boxes in the window that opens. Both have a Preferred Devices sectio
