Ricoh CD-RW problem in WinXP

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NurseRN

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I have re-installed and tweaked Windows XP to the point that I feel sick to my gut. The drive's BIOS has also been updated to the latest, available version. Nero recognizes my drive but it goes as far as attempting to burn the media inside; it shows as IDLE then after aprox. 2-3 minutes it tells me that the media inside is not good. I've used the same CD stock with Nero when I ran he program under Win ME. It worked fine! I bought a diff. kind of media, and the same problem occured.

I need someone who has the same drive, to tell me that he is able to burn CD's. I start to think that the drive is not compatible with WinME altough it's compatible with Nero (as per Ahead's Info page).

This cannot be happening... it looks as if upgrading to WinXP means also getting rid of hardware which is not compatible. I'm an inch away from going Mac! I never thought I'd say that!

Please help me here before I go mad!

Nurse


RICOH CD-RW MP 6200A attached to MB's IDE controller (controller 0)
ACER 50x CD Drive attached to MB's IDE controller ( controller 1)

Windows XP Prof.

ABIT BE6/ Celeron 550

Mushkin 256 Mb RAM

Promise Tech PCI Ultra 100 cotroller card -- 2 ultra 100 HD's (20 and 30 Mb)

 
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bacillus

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suggest you check your ASPI layer as XP doesn't come with one & nero needs it for burning purposes.
download ForceAspi from here & all the details on how to use it are included! :)
 
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NurseRN

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I went and downloaded the latest ASPI layers -- installed Force ASPI. I checked to see if everything was OK prior to installing FORCEASPI by using this little utility called aspichk.exe which returned all data being negative (no ASPI layer found on my system). Now that I have it installed, it comes back as OK showing the latest version when I run the utility.

HOWEVER, my Ricoh CD-RW MP 6200A still doesn't work with the latest version of Nero. DMA is checked as option... I cannot fathom how a drive which worked w/o any trouble in WinME less than a week ago, no longer works under Win XP. I actually upgraded from Win ME! HOw can a company come up with a piece of software, make such a big fuss over it, describing it as THE BEST OS out there, and lacks basic features which an earlier version (good or bad) already had.

I am in limbo here -- I appreciate the adivce you guys are giving me, but so far, haven't reached dry land. Any other thoughts on this??

Thanks,

Adrian


 
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