happy new year everyone
i have very faithful emachines T3209, served me well for 5 yrs.
OEM setup is NEC ND2500A DVD RW and a cdrom drive.
some time ago i have noticed that i can not use DVDRW for recording. when inserting blank cd into the drive and proceeding to burn cd, roxio will shut itself down, unspecified error encountered. when the same attempted with windows media player, error occured.
today it finally got me, and i fooled with it for several hrs. what i found is few things:
1. when a BLANK cd is inserted into nec dvd rw, it will not open it. double clicking on drive D in "my computer" produces message from windows explorer "drive D unaccessible/invalid function". after that, drives will not eject, must restart machine to open it.
2. when any prerecorded cd or dvd is inserted into the same drive, it will work fine and i even added a file to a cd, just to test it.
3. i can not burn any audio cd, as if i insert prerecorded cd, even with enough space for a music cd, it will propmt to insert a blank cd, and when so done, burning program shuts itself down due to an error/dvd drive freezes
4. if checked from my computer/drive d/properties/recording - "enable cd recording on this drive" check box unchecks itself and keeps staying unchecked
5. so that i do not forget - W XP home, Intel celeron, roxio easy media creator 8, and i like it a lot. can't stand nero.
6. i assumed that my dvd drive is bad and purchased sony dvd rwa 6 hrs ago, installed it instead of cd rom, set up exactly as cd rom was setup, i think it's "per cable solution" - and have exactly the same problem with the new dvd rom as i have with nec dvd rom
7. i spent about an hr on live chat connection with tech from emachines, including enabling remote control over my machine - she ran out of ideas. pretty much, she told me to reboot machine off factory cd, which i am not quite willing to do due to some programs that i had downloaded and use, and they are hard to restore after reboot.
8 i reset system to previous check point from windows restore to as far back as i could, same problem
9 cds that i use work fine on my laptop, i just burned 2 audio cds on it.
10 we had both drives uninstalled/machine restarted/reinstalled by windows - same problem.
any ideas? it is apparently software problem, as brand new dvd rwa has exactly the same problem as one that came with computer. everything worked fine till maybe 2 mths ago, when i started noticing those glitches in burning or recording cds.
i have very faithful emachines T3209, served me well for 5 yrs.
OEM setup is NEC ND2500A DVD RW and a cdrom drive.
some time ago i have noticed that i can not use DVDRW for recording. when inserting blank cd into the drive and proceeding to burn cd, roxio will shut itself down, unspecified error encountered. when the same attempted with windows media player, error occured.
today it finally got me, and i fooled with it for several hrs. what i found is few things:
1. when a BLANK cd is inserted into nec dvd rw, it will not open it. double clicking on drive D in "my computer" produces message from windows explorer "drive D unaccessible/invalid function". after that, drives will not eject, must restart machine to open it.
2. when any prerecorded cd or dvd is inserted into the same drive, it will work fine and i even added a file to a cd, just to test it.
3. i can not burn any audio cd, as if i insert prerecorded cd, even with enough space for a music cd, it will propmt to insert a blank cd, and when so done, burning program shuts itself down due to an error/dvd drive freezes
4. if checked from my computer/drive d/properties/recording - "enable cd recording on this drive" check box unchecks itself and keeps staying unchecked
5. so that i do not forget - W XP home, Intel celeron, roxio easy media creator 8, and i like it a lot. can't stand nero.
6. i assumed that my dvd drive is bad and purchased sony dvd rwa 6 hrs ago, installed it instead of cd rom, set up exactly as cd rom was setup, i think it's "per cable solution" - and have exactly the same problem with the new dvd rom as i have with nec dvd rom
7. i spent about an hr on live chat connection with tech from emachines, including enabling remote control over my machine - she ran out of ideas. pretty much, she told me to reboot machine off factory cd, which i am not quite willing to do due to some programs that i had downloaded and use, and they are hard to restore after reboot.
8 i reset system to previous check point from windows restore to as far back as i could, same problem
9 cds that i use work fine on my laptop, i just burned 2 audio cds on it.
10 we had both drives uninstalled/machine restarted/reinstalled by windows - same problem.
any ideas? it is apparently software problem, as brand new dvd rwa has exactly the same problem as one that came with computer. everything worked fine till maybe 2 mths ago, when i started noticing those glitches in burning or recording cds.
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