Can BURN, but can't READ

[Turbo55]

My Plextor sucessfully burns CDs, but cannot verify or read them in regular CD-ROM. It gives me an "I/O device error", but I can read any other CDs. Also, I had been burning CDs fine (readable) until now. I tried rebooting, but still can't read the burn CDs I just make. Is it possible that there's a corrupted driver, but that doesn't make sense, since I can burn.

 

[Turbo55]

anyone know why?

 

[RagManX]

Have you asked in the Technical Support forum? This query doesn't fall under the guidelines for Highly Technical.

RagManX

 

[Turbo55]

Oops, I thought this was the technical forum.

 

[CQuinn]

Yeah, you need to shift this to the tech support forum for the best answer, but
I'd suspect the brand of media you are using.

 

[Turbo55]

So far, nobody has answered this yet.

It's not the media. I have been burning with the same CDRW drive, same programs, same settings, and the same media, and I never had a problem until now. How odd.

 

[Shalmanese]

thats cos this is in the wrong forum

 

[Turbo55]

This is a very strange problem. I don't think anyone knows the answer to this, because it now miraciously works fine again. Someone explain how can this be possible.

 

[MadRat]

If this was a "Hardware Help" forum I'd say your powersupply is overloaded. But its not.

 

[LongTimePCUser]

Are you talking about 2 different drives? Some of the older CD-ROM drives will not read the CD-RW or CD-R disks that you can burn.

 

[Turbo55]

Well, it's mysteriously working againg after I shut down my computer for a day. It didn't worked before even if I restarted the computer with the RESET button. Just strange, how it fails and works again out of nowhere. My computer powers up 9 out of 10 chances. Is that a problem w/ the power supply?

 

[MadRat]

My little brother had a similar problem with his 850MHz Celeron system. The older 235W powersupply couldn't muster enough to support the hard drive, floppy, 50mm fan on his video card, CDROM and CD-burner. Any one device removed from the system and all was well.

He made the jump to a 365W Enermax and can now run them all without a problem.

 

[Turbo55]

I have a 300 Watt Fortran PWS. Shouldn't that be enough to power my AMD 950Mhz? Hmmm... but I have 3 HDs, and 3 CD-ROMS and 5 full slots of PCI. Would that suck up a lot of juice? But why does it sometimes power on and not POST?

 

[MadRat]

<<I have a 300 Watt Fortran PWS. Shouldn't that be enough to power my AMD 950Mhz? Hmmm... but I have 3 HDs, and 3 CD-ROMS and 5 full slots of PCI. Would that suck up a lot of juice?>>

I'm guessing you are burning up more than a 365W powersupply could handle. The AMD cores on Slot-A were power hungry, but the early Socket-A's were ultra-sensitive to under-voltage, too. The hard drives alone eat up quite alot upon initial spinups. A burner eats far more than a regular CDROM. The PCI cards all eat their own share of juice. I'm guessing its a power issue.

 

[staticfly]

plextor eh? is it a 12x.. cause I have the SAME problem... anyone?.. i have a 430watt enermax so im thinking its not power.

 

[Jerboy]

<< My Plextor sucessfully burns CDs, but cannot verify or read them in regular CD-ROM. It gives me an "I/O device error", but I can read any other CDs. Also, I had been burning CDs fine (readable) until now. I tried rebooting, but still can't read the burn CDs I just make. Is it possible that there's a corrupted driver, but that doesn't make sense, since I can burn. >>




Are you sure your drive is burning? CD-R/CD-RW's drives are unique in a way it doesn't check what its written in real time. I'd suspect dead writing laser. It seems like its putting enough power to track the disc, but not enough to write on it.

Does disc visually look different after burning as it should?

 

[cyclones]

Grab a copy of "IsoBuster."
This gives a very good idea of "what" you are burning and the type of cd reader profiles
it can be read on, plus almost everything there is to know about your cd's.

Usually available for free on a good class PC magazine, or check out via "Google"