burning cd makes computer reboot. help!

[aceO07]

When I'm burning a cd in my Plextor CDRW 12x10x32a, it restarts my computer. It reboots when it's 60%+ through the burning process. What's going on? It worked fine last week. Any ideas?

edit: It can read cds just fine.

 

[Jman13]

How big's your power supply? Could be an issue with a power overload. Or, perhaps your burner is having issues and causes a fault when it reaches a certain point. Did you add anything recently to the system? What are your specs?

 

[J1600B]

Make sure your OS is not set to reboot on error. Maybe that will help decipher what is wrong. I had a wrong driver for my IDE chipset and it caused my DVD burner to fail repeatedly until I loaded the correct driver.

 

[aceO07]

Originally posted by: Jman13
How big's your power supply? Could be an issue with a power overload. Or, perhaps your burner is having issues and causes a fault when it reaches a certain point. Did you add anything recently to the system? What are your specs?

It's a 350W, unfortunately the brand name escapes me right now, but it's a good brand. It's never had any problems before and I've had it for a year now.

Nope, nothing's changed since last week when it did work. Nothing that I know of, besides installing Quicktime.

It's a P4 1.6A (not overclocked for the season, due to the heat). I don't think it's my other hardware though, since it has been the same for the last year.

 

[aceO07]

Originally posted by: J1600B
Make sure your OS is not set to reboot on error. Maybe that will help decipher what is wrong. I had a wrong driver for my IDE chipset and it caused my DVD burner to fail repeatedly until I loaded the correct driver.

Where is that option to reboot on error? I don't think I've seen that one before.

edit: I think it works again. It finished an entire cd file last night. I didn't burn the same files as before though. Maybe I should try those again.