Hi, Santa brought me a nice new Sony DRU-710A. I took out my old CD burner and put in the Sony. I installed all the nero software. Whenever I try to burn either a CD or a DVD, it starts goping through the process but soon after it starts buring, I get a report of a Communications Error and the burning fails. I have updated the Firmware on the burner (successfully), the drivers on the mobo (Asus with AMD Athlon 2200), the Nero software (now 6.6.x.x) and still I get coasters. The burn process certainly start because the coasters have some files on them (e.g a collection of 98 JPGs managed to get the first 76 on to a CD-R before kakking itself). Do I need to remove ALL other buring sw (eg WMP, Real, the stuff that comes with XP (I have SP2 loaded)? Or have a I got a Sony lemon?