Hi There! I need a little help.
My 2 CD Drives, which had been burning fine, no longer will burn CD-Rs. My 2 CD Drives:
LITE-ON LTR-52246S CD-RW
NEC ND-1000A DVD+RW
I am using Nero version 5.5.10.35 OEM. Running Windows XP Home.
I guess the problem occurred from a motherboard upgrade from an MSI KT3 Ultra ARU (Athlon 1800+) to an MSI K8T (Athlon 64 3000+) about 2 months ago (I haven't tried to burn since until now). The setup burned fine before I upgraded the mobo. Now when I do a burn on either drive, nothing happens when the actual burn process begins. The drive won't even start up and the progress screen locks at about 5%. This happens burning from the hard drive or directly copying from another CD. If I copy a CD to the hard drive first, all data will go to the hard drive first, the drawer will open to exchange the CD with the blank, but the drive will not start the burn...no blue light at all on the drive (lite-on). After about 20 minutes of doing nothing, Nero gives me an unsuccessful burn message. I've tried burning CDs on the DVD+RW also with the same result.
The drives read OK, but now when playing CDs, I experience an occasional split second break in the playback which also never happened prior to the upgrade.
In the Device Manager, the Transfer Mode is set to "DMA If Available" and the Current Transfer Mode is set to "Ultra DMA Mode 2" for both drives.
Any ideas on diagnosing the fix?
Thanks!
Buddy