Hi, just joined to see if anyone can help!

[Geehar]

I recently bought a Pika-one dual CD/DVD +/-RW drive which plays both cd's and DVD's fine but I can't burn anything! It came with Nero 5.5 and when I tried running the info tool they supply I get a "no driver" error message but the tool goes on to open and indicate that the ASPI is working and correctly installed. I'm running Windows ME but it seems as if I'm missing some basic drivers?
Attached is the Info Tool txt report which lists all the other drivers in case it helps.
Can anyone help?

[Blane]

You can try to download some drivers and firmware for your drive here.
http://www.pikaone.com/en/support/download_center.htm

[The-poacher]

Welcome to our & now your little house on the web
Have fun & dont be shy if U can help post away

[bionic]

Welcome

[Geehar]

You can try to download some drivers and firmware for your drive here.
http://www.pikaone.com/en/support/download_center.htm

Unfortunately, they don't offer any driver's for my DVD just firmware and it looks as if I've already got the latest version. I think I must have a missing or broken Windows driver file but which one?

[Geehar]

I've just found the troubleshooting thread, should I post this question there?

[roadworker]

Check the master/slave settings of your drives and the cable that connects them,it should be a 40 pin.
It's also better that your burner is master on your secondary ide and that you connect your cdrom as slave to it,or to your harddisk,if you have a recent mobo,there will no speed decrease of your harddisk by adding the cdrom to a 80 pin cable on your harddisk...

[Geehar]

Check the master/slave settings of your drives and the cable that connects them,it should be a 40 pin.
It's also better that your burner is master on your secondary ide and that you connect your cdrom as slave to it,or to your harddisk,if you have a recent mobo,there will no speed decrease of your harddisk by adding the cdrom to a 80 pin cable on your harddisk...

I've checked the master / slave settings and the 40 pin cable all seems ok. There can't be a fundemental connection problem if I can read CD's and DVD's ok?
The "could not open driver" message seems like a pretty fundemental software problem but things aren't always what they seem.

[banzibaby]

Hi & Welcome

BaNzI

[Geehar]

At Last I've solved my problem. As is often the case trial and error got there in the end. Here are the details in case anyone else has the same difficulties.
It turned out that my ASPI layer was not working properly despite two programs, Nero Info tool and Adaptec's ASPICHK version 2 both indicating that the aspi was installed and working correctly. By chance I ran the older version 1 (006) of the ASPICHK.exe program which indicated that the WNASPI32.dll, and WINASPI.dll were at version 1.00 and not 4.60 as required. It seems that the other programs were fooled by one correct version (ASPIENUM.vxd @ version 4.60).
Anyhow, now that all these files are at version 4.60 I'm up and burning even though Nero still gives "could not open driver" messages.

[The-poacher]

good ol 4.60

[Junebee]

I recently bought a Pika-one dual CD/DVD +/-RW drive which plays both cd's and DVD's fine but I can't burn anything! It came with Nero 5.5 and when I tried running the info tool they supply I get a "no driver" error message but the tool goes on to open and indicate that the ASPI is working and correctly installed. I'm running Windows ME but it seems as if I'm missing some basic drivers?
Attached is the Info Tool txt report which lists all the other drivers in case it helps.
Can anyone help?

Get Cdrwin3.x and the latest Adaptec Winaspi - that should help