CD keeps locking up machine

[tunes4life]

I have a CD that I've burned that is 697MB. It is a data CD. I have a Plextor 24/10/40 at home and for some reason I get a complete system lock up whenever I try to navigate around on the CD. I have tried burning it with different software(Nero & Adaptec), hardware (plextor 24/10/40 - 12/10/40 - Phillips 4x), and media (imation, kodak, sony). It just won't work at home. It won't work on my work machine either (stock 48x reader). However it does work on my friends machine who has the same burner, and on several other machines at work. Any ideas? I've called tech support for Plextor and have basically gotten "Duhh". Any help would be appreciated. It's a brand new burner with new firmware.

Home machine:
Win2000 Pro
60GB Maxtor 7200
P4 2.0 Northwood
Gigabyte 8IRXP MB
GeForce3 Ti-500 video (primary)
Plextor 24/10/40
ATI 16mb PCI video
on board NIC
Soundblaster live Value
512 DDR Corsair

Thanks, tunes4life
:disgust:

 

[ojai00]

Welcome...could it be a virus on the disc? Try putting 650MB of data on the CD and see if that works. Sometimes the CD will not complete successfully if you have around 700MB data on it (happened to me, don't know about others). Hope this helps.

 

[Walliser]

I had a simialar problem with a CD-RW that I "overburned" I must have taken it too far. When I put it into my Lite-on drive it would lock up the system, trying again and again to read from the disc but failing each time. I finally erased the disc using my NEC 7800 writer and that solved that problem.

It could be that the data format is the problem. Maybe the drives on the computers that lock up are unable to read the disk properly.