CD Burner problem

[Mikey]

I have a Lite-On LTR 48246S CD Burner and have developed the following
problem. It will not burn onto a CD-R...it just cycles up and down
perpetually. I even tried updating the firmware which made the problem
worse. Now if there is a CD in the drive when I boot up, the burner tries to
access the disk and the machine will continually reboot. I suspect I have
some damaged/missing files as I was using one of those "registry cleaner"
programs and that may have caused the problem so I'm not sure it is actually
a problem with the drive itself.

The computer is an AMD Athlon 2100+, 40 Gb HD, 512 Mb RAM running Win XP
Prof.

Any ideas or suggestions are appreciated!

Regards,
Mike

 

[Willie]

Have you tried to uninstall the drive from device mgr, and rebooting,
letting windows re-install it?

Willie

 

[Mikey]

That was a good suggestion but it didn't work. If there is a CD-RW in the
drive when I boot up it still will perpetually reboot. If I put in the CD-RW
when the machine is running, it tries to access the CD, I get a very fast
BSOD with a lot of numbers on it (it only flashes for a fraction of a
second) and the machine reboots. My CD-ROM in the other drive bay seems to
work fine. Any other ideas?

Mike

 

[Willie]

Just curious, do you have the "Automatically restart" unchecked, so that
when your system reboots after a system failure, it goes to the BOS with the
error code?

For this; Rt Click My Computer, Properties, Advanced Tab, Startup & recovery
"Settings", Under system failure, uncheck "automatically restart", and
OK...The next time your system randomly reboots, it will give you a blue
screen with an error code.

Willie

 

[Willie]

Sorry, I meant BSOD, not BOS...also, have you tried to clean the drive with
an optical cleaner? This most likely doesn't have anything to do with your
situation, but...

Willie

 

[Willie]

Sorry, Also, since you said you ran a reg editor, I don't know if this will
help, but for missing files it works...you may try putting the XP CD in
*while booted up*, close it out when it opens, and go to Start>Run> type sfc
/scannow (With a space between the "c" & " / " ). I have never tried this
with possible reg issues, but what do you have to lose?

Willie

 

[Mikey]

I'll probably try the system file checker routine but first I need to find
my WIN XP disk. I don't have an optical cleaner but I'll see if I can blow
any dust outta there. Also I unchecked the "restart automatically" box and
here's most of the error message I got:

A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent
damage....etc.

STOP: 0X00000023 (0X000E00E0, 0XF8C69708, 0XF8C69408, 0XF0BB29BC)
fast.sys - Address 0BB29BC base at F0BAF000, Datestamp 3d6de58d

Beginning Memory Dump...

and so on...

I also did a chkdsk operation and nothing showed up. Other than this the
machine runs pretty well. However, I think I see a "format c:" in my near
future...::::sigh::::

Mike