CD Burner Help!

[AlienKing]

I have a couple of ideas on how to fix this issue, but I need more info on your computer. Brand, model, etc if you bought it; if you built it, mobo, cpu, etc.


This is often the biggest reason I see for cd-burners not working right:
Have you updated your chipset drivers lately? If not, try that, it may help.

If you did, try rolling back the IDE drivers to the standard microsoft ones (especially if you have an nForce 2 based system). This assumes you have windows XP.


(Don't follow these directions unless you updated your drivers recently, and your buring software has not worked right since then)
Push windows key and pause at the same time to bring up the system properties, then click the hardware tab. In the hardware tab, click device manager. Scroll down to the IDE/Atapi control section, expand it, then open the properties for the controller. Click the driver tab, and then the driver roll back button.

[tahkis]

and that is what?

Put CD into drive, drag & drop files you want to burn and then do it.

[Nickname]

I'm not so hip with all this computer stuff guys. All I know is my comp is a dell, it was a custom build -- I have no idea with what. I don't think we've updated any drives or anything -- i dunno.

[deutschpunkrevolte]

Put CD into drive, drag & drop files you want to burn and then do it.

u forgot to take the cd outa the drive when u burned it down :wub:

[Nockm]

error always comes at 29% of total completion, regardless of the speed with which I run. I think the driver is amemorex and we use memorex cds (and it did work, but it stopped, so it's not like it didn't work from day 1)

Okay, try using Nero. It's a bit fiddly to use at first so you'll probably have to come back here.

[Ace]

and that is what?

Simple, just drag the files you want to burn and drop them into you E drive or what ever letter the burner is assigned to and the click on the copy thingie at the side.

[Nockm]

Yeah actually do the above thing, as its much simpler

[Nickname]

something is wrong with the drive I think. I tried burning through windows media player and it didn't work either.

[Hydride]

OK, it won't work -- heres the errors it gives me.


Write Error, buffer underrun occured
TrackWriter Error, command retry failed

any ideas? I recently cleaned the drive with one of those disk cleaners so it's not that it's dirty (it stopped working a long time ago, just getting around to it now.)



i fixed somehting that was wrong, but i still get the same two error messages. I'm out of ideas...


I need some help

I've Nero, had the problem before with winamp, then i got windows media player 10.0 and it burns smoothly

[Nockm]

If you're under warranty give Dell a call

[Nickname]

I doubt it, it's several years old.

[Nockm]

Biggest question is: "Is your CD writer physically damaged?"

Not sure how best to test that except trying out your CD writer on someone else's computer.