No "autorun" for AHCI enabled optical drive?

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 2:19 pm

No disc will autorun, I already configured Windows 7 to prompt me for every type of disc yet nothing appears/happens.

I believe Windows is treating it as a HDD with a Region Code limitation because it doesn't properly recognize a change in disc until I access the device either. >.>

I'll see if I can switch that particular device to IDE mode as I have read google on the subject and saw AHCI = terrible for optical drives.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 4:02 pm

Why would you use Autorun anyway?

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 4:23 pm

To choose "view contents of disc" each time or to choose the actual setup file etc. if I know I can trust the disc?

At the moment no dialog appears giving me any choices at all when I insert a disc, with normal SATA it would always give me a choice of viewing the files, opening the exe, burning to a disc etc.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 6:14 pm

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/01/1 ... ows-vista/

That's the best I could come up with, and I suspect this is still true for Windows 7. I have my SATA DVD driver running in AHCI mode and autoplay is working fine under XP.

The only thing worth considering is updating the drivers for the SATA controller that your drive is connected to.

Edit: Found another link
http://www.tutcity.com/view/troubleshoo ... 23107.html

funkyass · Post by **funkyass** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 9:32 pm

you did double check the Win7 auto-run settings right?

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Tue Jan 05, 2010 1:47 am

Deathlike2 wrote:http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/01/1 ... ows-vista/

That's the best I could come up with, and I suspect this is still true for Windows 7. I have my SATA DVD driver running in AHCI mode and autoplay is working fine under XP.

The only thing worth considering is updating the drivers for the SATA controller that your drive is connected to.

Edit: Found another link
http://www.tutcity.com/view/troubleshoo ... 23107.html

Thanks a ton! this article lead me to the NoDriveTypeAutoRun registry entry, upon googling it (for Windows 7) I come upon http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/wi ... toplay.htm. This explains why the Vista value is 0x91 instead of just stating it as a default setting. I set it to 0x91 (from a retarded 0xFF) and it seems to be working!