Creative CD-RW and Nero Burner Problem...

[ogcaldwell]

I have this Creative CD-RW that has been used with Nero Burner very well, but has recently begun to act funny. It will usually only burn right after I have rebooted the system. If after I burn something, I shut the program down or it crashes, it will not restart or if it does, it will not burn. I am not sure if this could be tied into the Win98 ASPI layer and if extracting it from the win98 cd could help. Since I have never performed this operation, I am not sure what to expect once finished. I have a step by step on how to do it though.

Well, the system has a 400Mhz processor and 64Mb of RAM. What do ya'll suggest.

 

[Willoughbyva]

Try reinstalling Nero or dl an updated one if you qualify for it. Also try newer chipset driver and such.


Will

 

[wefixitalways]

I can tell you from experience, it is the Creative Labs hardware. I bought my first Creative with Nero burning software. The Creative CD-Rom was a 8x4x32 and it lasted only about 6 months. And I did not use it very much. Creative sent me a replacement drive and it lasted 3 or 4 months. It started acting up like you were describing and then stopped working all together. Needless to say I will never buy another Creative product.:disgust:

 

[Muse]

<< I can tell you from experience, it is the Creative Labs hardware. I bought my first Creative with Nero burning software. The Creative CD-Rom was a 8x4x32 and it lasted only about 6 months. And I did not use it very much. Creative sent me a replacement drive and it lasted 3 or 4 months. It started acting up like you were describing and then stopped working all together. Needless to say I will never buy another Creative product.:disgust: >>

It might be the drive, maybe not. I have the 8x4x32 Creative too, and I don't think there's anything _wrong_ with mine other than it won't write in CD Text (although Nero supports it) and it's noisy as Hell. Sure glad I got a Liteon 24x. The easiest thing to try is uninstalling and then reinstalling Nero. Might not hurt to remove the drive and reinstall it, so Win98 gets a fresh take on it. Just a thought. Harder to reinstall your Win98, or preferably, Win2000, but there's got to be an advantage in installing a fresh OS, especially if it's been a while since you installed Win98. Don't know about the ASPI layer stuff.