Q: Im having trouble burning music, data CDs and DVDs on a Plextor PX716-A.
I was originally using this 3 months old drive on an old P2 350 MHz ASUS with no problems what so ever. I am using this drive on a new machine.
Win 2K
MSI K8N-Neo4
Atholon 3200 939 512 socket
Kingston ram
Everything reads OK, but until recently I got a huge static clipping and get all the music tracks I fire, the static worse as the tracks go up. Burning data DVDs, or if I never burned them. While I can visually see data written to the disk surface I get a D: is not accessible, incorrect function message explorer.
I do not know what is causing this or where it started. I do not know if it was always so, because this is a relatively new machine. Is it still hot fixes and patches? I seem to remember Windows Media Player unable to certain copyrighted discs to play.
I am using Nero 6 and Roxio 6. I burn quite a few MP3s, but the same happens with everything including the copying of discs. I have an identical machine using both programs with a TDK burner not help
guy problem.
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Re:OK just got off the phone with Tech support with plextor. It was the firmware upgrade from there website. If any of you have a problem such as this, the upgrade should fix you problem. My drive is now 100% working.
guy
Re:Just contacted Plextor tech support and they had me run through a self diagnostic check and the drive checked out positive.
It's gotta be a software issue as I guessed before, I will post back when I figure it out!!!
Re:Yes you got it straight
Thank you for your opinion
guy
Re:Sorry –
Lets get this straight.
The drive that didn't work in one machine, didn't work in another machine that had a working drive in.
The drive that did work, also worked in the machine that had a non-working drive in previously.
BAD drive
Re:OK I just did a cleaning and a swap of both drives. The Plextor gave me the same symptoms it gave me before the move. The TDK worked fine on my original machine that had the plextor in it. I am unconvinced that there is a problem with the plextor. This drive was bought new and worked fine up to this point. It was manufactured in December 2004. I feel that it is a software issue with some program or software update that I get from Microsoft. No one else has this problem with other burners?
The only way for me to find out if this is software related issue, would be to format my hard drive and reinstall windows with no updates and burn something. Both machines are running windows 2000 with service pack 4 and downloaded upgrades from Microsoft as they become available. If there are any other ideas please let me know.
guy
Re:Could try a cleaning disk to see if that is the problem.
Just to make sure, I would swapping drives with the working one as a troubleshoot.
Then, you would know for sure that the drive is buggered
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