DVD-ROM Issue?

[-digz!]

I recently played the demo for cod4 and thought it was an awesome game so i went to best buy and bought a copy of it. When i brought it home and put it in my dvd-rom drive the cd would spin, then stop, then spin, then stop, and my computer wouldn't recognize it or bring up the autorun screen, so i tried going through run, and it still wouldn't recognize the dvd. my dvd-rom drive is 16x reading, so it shouldn't be too slow. dvd movies work in the drive, and i do not have any other dvd games(just cd-rom)

http://www.epinions.com/content_105733525124

there is my computer(yeah i know agp gross), slightly modified(550w psu, 6600gt, and 1.5gb ram) everything else is stock

just wondering if anyone else has had this issue, or if you think it is a defective dvd(doesn't look to be scratched at all)

help appreciated, ty!

[Spik3d]

You need a DVD drive.

[-digz!]

thanks for your helpful reply

but problem has been solved, my dvd drive is probably becoming shot, but after a couple restarts the autorun menu kicked in and i got the game working fine. advice for others, if your dvd drive is an older one, but the read speed on it is fine, just give it a couple minutes to read the disk, after that mine gave me no problems

[Verzili]

i had a similar problem,with toca2 and bf2 when they 1st came out,my DVD drive would not play either.

i had to go and buy a new one to get it working.

was not compatible with some of the newer games for some reason.

but its good you managed to get it working in the end.

[Spik3d]

thanks for your helpful reply

Well, the link you gave for you computer showed that you only had a CD rom drive.

CD / DVD
Optical Drive Type 	 	CD-RW
Optical Drive Read Speed 	48x (CD)
Optical Drive Write Speed 	48x (CD-R)
Optical Drive ReWrite Speed 	24x (CD-RW)

Other Drives
Floppy Drive 	 	 	3.5" 1.44 MB floppy

[imported_Evi1d33d]

From the suspiciously long review, it looks like it has a DVD drive also. The game is on a Dual Layer DVD (9GB max) so your old drive might not support it.