CD Rom Drive Problems

Miroslav

bbb_uk wrote:

This could be due to your computer running slow due to loads of programmes running in background or the laser is on its way out.

I may have already mentioned this (can't remember) but restart your computer and after waiting for everything to load, close everything down except systray (like you did when defraging) and see if that helps towards playing back CDs and/or the writing problem(s).

I'll try burning with just systray and see what happens. If I can't sort by tonight, I'm calling them out as it's annoying me greatly now!

Thanks!

T4i

If your CD's stutter on playback I'd be looking at IDE drivers.

Either the laser is out of line or you have a terribly slow/broken p.c, do the cd's take ages to spin up?

Can you put an original music cd in and see how long it takes to start playing it. Listen to your drive for clicks and the sound of the laser moving trying to read the track.

Miroslav

Music CD's are okay. It's just the CD-R's, all different makes as I have things others have done for me on different CD's than TDK. So maybe it's a disc problem, I don't know, it can't be just about every disk I have and it doesn't explain the writing difficulties.

When I do put blank CD's in it swirls and clicks alot, freezes the PC for a few seconds, tries again and again...

Is there anything on the PC i can change?

T4i

hmmm...

Your CDRW will prolly click if you put a blank in cas its trying to read it and there is nothing to read.

With you saying your buffer is really low I'd look at your IDE drivers, looks like all ur optical devices are slow.

If you right click on your CDRW in device mgr does it say its using UDMA/PIO?

Do that for your HDD's too....

Miroslav

T4i wrote:

hmmm...

Your CDRW will prolly click if you put a blank in cas its trying to read it and there is nothing to read.

With you saying your buffer is really low I'd look at your IDE drivers, looks like all ur optical devices are slow.

If you right click on your CDRW in device mgr does it say its using UDMA/PIO?

Do that for your HDD's too....

Nothing about UDMA/PIO

I know very little about these things

All it says is Device is working properly, enabled digital playback, Target ID 0, logical unit number 0, firmware revision t101

Options : ticked are Disconnect, Auto insert notification and DMA not ticked is sync data transfer.

The drive has gone back to

No driver files are loaded or are needed for this device

How do I do for HDD?

Sorry, really no knowledge of this

Miroslav

I've downlaoded the driverguidetoolkit to check my drivers.

this is what it says about my CD-Rom

Capabilities:
Class: CDROM
ClassGUID: !!4d36e965-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}
ConfigFlags:
DeviceDesc: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352B
HardwareID: SAMSUNG_CDRW/DVD_SM-352BT,GenCD,SCSI\SAMSUNG_CDRW/DVD_SM-352BT
Mfg: (Standard CD-ROM device)
Additional HardwareIDs supported: SAMSUNG_CDRW/DVD_SM-308BB
GenCD
SCSI\SAMSUNG_CDRW/DVD_SM-308BB
SAMSUNG_CDRW/DVD_SM-308BT
GenCD
SCSI\SAMSUNG_CDRW/DVD_SM-308BT

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The SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352B is my old one, I checked the manual and that's the old one

T4i

Do you have any SCSI devices?

Have you installed something that enables a virtual device?

Your running windows 98 or ME right?

Miroslav

T4i wrote:

Do you have any SCSI devices?

Have you installed something that enables a virtual device?

Your running windows 98 or ME right?

No SCSI devices

I don't think I have anything installed that would enable a virtual device...

I'm running ME

Miroslav

The only thing connected externally to my PC is

http://www.voyager.bt.com/usb/prodinfo.htm

My broadband modem

Could this be causing problems?

T4i

No, i think you need to format.

I'd try to download some IDE drivers for your chipset. You should not have any SCSI devices if you have no SCSI hardware. I know some progs like Alcohol 120% create a virtual device (a scsi one i think)

hmmmmmm.