Hello,

Last weekend, I upgraded Windows XP Media Center SP1 to SP2 (since MS no
longer supports it) on my father's Toshiba Satellite P15-S470
notebook/laptop. I found tonight that his Media Center 2004 refuses to
play audio CD due to an audio error: "To play music in media center,
install Windows Media Player 9 or repair."

After a long research on the Internet (e.g., newsgroups and forums), I
found out this a known issue ever since SP2's release in 2004. It used
to work before SP2 and other music players (e.g., Windows Media Player
(WMP) v10 and iTunes v6.x) have no problems. I tried using the MCE 2004
registry fixes provided by both Toshiba and HP (just for kicks) and
rebooting, but they did not help.

Is there anything else to try beside clean installing the OS with its
SP2 and software? I was going to upgrade WMP to v11, but I found out
that it doesn't work in MCE 2004. :(

Thank you in advance. :)
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the assault like swarming ants, with the result that one-third of his
men are slain, while the town still remains untaken. Such are the
disastrous effects of a siege." --Chapter 3 in Sun Tzu's The Ancient Art
of War (Translated by Lionel Giles)
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