Re: cd/dvd question
- From: "Monty Bonner" <mdbonn21@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 00:40:22 -0800
"David M." <no@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Monty Bonner" <mdbonn21@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> On thing to check if it's a windows box is this. I am assuming you are
>> running Windows 2000 or XP, if it's some older operating system. Don't
>> waste time fixing it, purchase a new system, make sure you get a good
>> one. Don't buy HP, Compaq, or Gateway or E-Machine. I refrain form
>> Levineo because that takes dollars away from the US and that leaves the
>> Mom and Pop outlets, building your own or Dell. We use dell at my place
>> of employment. I have not made up my mind on them. They just announced
>> certain models have the bad capacitor issues but are not issuing a
>> recall. That problem has been around for the last 5 years and will
>> continue to be around.
>>
>> Here is what to check. Right Click My Computer icon, go to "manage",
>> choose device manager, click on the plus next to "IDE/ATA/ATAPI
>> controllers, then right click on the Primary IDE channel and go to
>> properties. You will see a window with several tabs at the top, choose
>> the "advanced Settings" choose that tab and make sure that DMA if
>> available is chosen for the Transfer Type. Do this for all the IDE
>> Controllers listed. Change any that are not DMA to DMA, etc.
>>
>> If it still will not burn CD's the Drive is bad most likely, or the
>> system has toasted the driver. Plextor as it's the best, with Pioneer
>> right along side. The pioneers are faster, and Plextors seem to be made
>> a tad better. Your choice. www.newegg.com is the place to compare
>> prices, good customer service and lots of choices.
>>
>> Monty
>
> OK, My primary and secondary IDE channels seem to check out alright.
> There is a third entry under "IDE/ATA/ATAPI controllers, called "Via Bus
> Master IDE Controller" that does not have an advanced settings.
>
> Since you (and Marvin) seem to be knowledgeable and sympathetic :-) let me
> just tell you my tale of woe, and maybe you can recommend a course of
> action.
>
> My PC is about 3 years old. Athlon 2400 processor, 1GB RAM, decent
> harddrive, still a pretty good machine. I got it from a local computer
> store, so maybe they don't use the highest quality parts. (One constant
> annoyance is that the fan is really loud.). A couple of months ago, the
> machine started acting bad. The machine wasn't as performant, and I think
> some apps started acting weird. So, I figured it was time to format the
> disk. I was not able to format the disk. Using two different Windows XP
> Pro disks, the OS install failed (!!!!!!). I bring the machine to a local
> (not the same company I bought it from) repair shop, and they repro not
> being able to install with the OS disk I have them, but they are able to
> install the OS with one of their disks. Not the resolution I was looking
> for, but what the heck, I'll take it. I install my software and restore
> my data and everything is swell.
>
> Now, I'm a dummy and for some reason I was using Nero to burn my CDs.
> Don't ask me why, someone just told me to use it. I never used the
> Windows burn feature. A few weeks after my newly formatted is up and
> running, I decide it's time to burn some pictures to CD. I install Nero
> and it seems that right after I installed Nero, the weirdness I was having
> with my machine returns. And now, I am unable to burn CDs. The machine
> still works for mail and the other usual apps (I'm using the machine to
> access this newsgroup) but I can't burn CDs. I even tried using the
> Windows burn feature and the burn still fails.
>
> Any suggestions (besides buying a new computer)?
>
>
>>
>>
>> Right Clieck
>> "David M." <no@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> My old desktop computer is in failing health. For example, I cannot
>>> burn CDs anymore. The new computers have DVD burners. Do all DVD
>>> burners also burn CDs?
>>>
David, I think you either have a virus or some bad thing in there, it's
possible the CD-RW drive is toast, but run your virus update and then run a
complete virus scan on it. Just for the sake of argument, what motherboard,
and is the Bios up to the latest revision? Download Spybot and update the
database, the run a check on your system using that.
Do you have two CD drives or only one? Do you have any friends who are into
computers? If so see if you can borrow a CD-RW from them and try it in your
machine if it works then you know the drive is dead. It's sometimes hard to
take back a drive that does not work, if you do purchase a new one, buy it
from Best Buy, they have pretty good customer service. If you have a
western digital hard drive, the web site for them has some drive checking
utilities and you can make sure the hard drive is ok. Download the latest
patches for Microsoft XP, and then turn off the Firewall inside windows for
a while to see if it's causing the problem (should not but you never know).
Once you reinstall Nero (yes your friend was correct, much better than Roxio
stuff, although the interface is a little harder to work in) download all
the latest patches for that version and install those as well. Make sure
you don't have any suspect software, that is software you don't have a
license for or is possibly a fake copy, Microsoft will verify the version of
windows is a authorized copy.
Once you do all that stuff, give us a report back and let us know what is
happening.
Monty
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