[danztommy]

I hope somebody can help.
I'm running Windows XP 5.1 and have a Sony CRX320EE R/W which used to all work fine burning CDs.
Now, for some reason, I either start to burn and it crashes, or can't get the thing to burn at all.

When I start Nero, it says "This application has detected that your drive is not in DMA mode". I open the Nero DMA manager, check the box for the Sony drive and restart like it says, but the same error msg comes up again.

If I ignore it and just open the Nero Express application i can drag and drop the songs I want to burn. The thing kicks off and buffers and all that jazz and then aborts. Some discs have all the track records, but only bits of the songs, or just nothing on the disc at all {but I cant reuse it again later).

I've gone through a stack of discs and so have a great "used cd" collection of coasters which I will likely get sick of and they'll end up as landfill somewhere.

Can anybody help?

[Abarbarian]

Try un-installing the drivers for the drive and then re-installing them.

[danztommy]

yeah. this thing is driving me insane trying to work this out.
Driver re-install did nothing. Another cd bites the dust.

[wizkid]

Originally Posted by danztommy

I hope somebody can help.
I'm running Windows XP 5.1 and have a Sony CRX320EE R/W which used to all work fine burning CDs.
Now, for some reason, I either start to burn and it crashes, or can't get the thing to burn at all.

When I start Nero, it says "This application has detected that your drive is not in DMA mode". I open the Nero DMA manager, check the box for the Sony drive and restart like it says, but the same error msg comes up again.

If I ignore it and just open the Nero Express application i can drag and drop the songs I want to burn. The thing kicks off and buffers and all that jazz and then aborts. Some discs have all the track records, but only bits of the songs, or just nothing on the disc at all {but I cant reuse it again later).

I've gone through a stack of discs and so have a great "used cd" collection of coasters which I will likely get sick of and they'll end up as landfill somewhere.

Can anybody help?

Try the link below,


http://www.onthegosoft.com/dma_setting_nt.htm

[danztommy]

Will try that. But 1st- progress:
I found the site with firmware update for the CRX320EE not on the Sony site but via google!
After updating the firmware to nyk4 from nyk3 I no longer get the DMA thing when I open Nero.
I also downloaded iTunes and managed to burn a cd {at 2 times speed} with that. Success I thought!
But the CD has skips in some of the tracks as though it was a scratched record {anybody remember vinyl?}
Anyway- that was before I downloaded the firmware.
So I'll try to burn another disc. Here's hoping!

[danztommy]

Still no joy. More coasters to the collection....

[Abarbarian]

Either borrow a working drive or buy one, they are cheap as chips and it will do as a spare if not needed at the moment. See if that works. If it does you probably have a duff drive. If the othere drive does not work you most probably have a software problem. Have you done a virus check?

[floppybootstomp]

This used to be a very common problem but is not seen so often these days.

Try looking at this guide, it may help: DMA

And another link to look at

If you still don't get sorted consider buying a new burner, you can pick up a good one with Lightscribe capability for less than £25.00.

[danztommy]

Problem's getting worse as the silly thing now finds it hard to read discs and even "skips" when playing back bought cd's.
I didnt think a CD drive could "wear out" But I guess I'm wrong.
Will have to get a new one and try it out.

[wizkid]

Originally Posted by danztommy

Problem's getting worse as the silly thing now finds it hard to read discs and even "skips" when playing back bought cd's.
I didnt think a CD drive could "wear out" But I guess I'm wrong.
Will have to get a new one and try it out.

It is very common for disk drive to fail I have had quite a few fail on me before, I would try another drive and see if it works.