Errr no you cant! Not on ranked servers anyway. And if you are still using the old 1.40 patch then you are not playing on ranked servers.
I only play on ranked servers, why would you want to play on anything else?
And a NoCD will not work on the ranked servers, (not the ones ive tried anyway) only a mini image will.
The chances of anyone making a proper NoCD for BF2 is very slim as the mini image method works for every patched version.