July 15/03
I have a Yamaha CD R/RW model 2100 E (16 10 40 ) unit.
CPU = AMD 900
Memory = 384 megs SDRAM
Win 2000 pro O/S
Software = Roxio Easy CD creator v.6
Video card = n-VIDIA 3 D force 2 MX 64.
CD installed on its own IDE bus (not shared)

CD is recognized by windows and working properly in device manager.
I have re-installed drivers.
I have re-installed sotware.
I have cleaned my lenses.
I upgraded the CD bios.

My problem is as follows:

If I try to burn a CD, I get an "out of memory message" or else my CD drive unplugs and is uninstalled by windows.

I I try to read a music CD, it takes a long, long time for my drive to read and play the CD. While its loading, it freezes my system. Once it finishes playing a song, it takes forever to load the next song.

If I try to read a data CD, either it doesn't read or recognize the CD or it takes a long time to recognize and load or else it freezes my system and I need to 'ctrl alt del' in order to free up my system.

It seems to use up alot of CPU resources when loading or reading something i.e. (36%)

My question is has this CD burner lived out its useful life or is there something that I'm missing.


Roger (Expofan)

check in device manager to make sure that DMA is enabled on your drive.

device manager/CDrw/properties/advanced tab.

if it isnt and it wont change to DMA uninstall the IDe channel that the CD is on and reboot letting windows reinstall it on boot up

I had already done this. Sorry I forgot to mention.
I have my CD drive set to 'Digital' could that be the problem ?

Roger

probably not but it wouldnt hurt anything to hange it and see.

did you by chance uninstall a previous version of roxio easy Cd before installing 6? Roxio is notorious for causing problems after being uninstalled.

I tried my drive with the 'digital' set to off and it makes no difference.
In answer to your question about Roxio, I had to do a complete fresh re-install of windows 2k and all my programs a short while back, so Roxio6 is a fresh install.
In any case, this problem exists even when not using Roxio but just using my Musicmatch Jukebox player.
Do you think that if I uninstalled everything including completely disconnecting the drive and all relevant software and then re-installing everything like new might resolve the problem ?

Thanks for your help it's much appreciated.

Roger

Digital option only enables/disables the Digital Audio Playback of the drive.

You need to update the ASPI layer for Win2K, which can be found HERE (http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/support/drivers_by_product.html?cat=/Product/ASPI-4.70).