driver problems

[Fab4]

Hey,

I have some problems with my 'Philips CDRW 1610A'.
Yesterday I formatted my C: but now I can't get my CDRW back to work.
reading CDs works fine but wrighting is the problem. Whenever I run a burning program (I've tried many), I can select everything I want to burn. But when I click the icon to stat burning the program crashes and I have to reboot. By the way I'm using Windows ME.
Any suggestion will be secieved with gratitude!

[confus-ed]

Welcome to WD forums Fab4 .. should I burst into 'yellow submarine' or 'Elanor Rigby' now ?

So when you reformated did you apply all the patches & such applicable for your motherboard ? - probably you didn't know you ought ! so if not, detail either your motherboard or the pc make & model & I/someone can try & find you the appropriate patches which I think may be your issue (I'm thinking chipset patches required).

[Fab4]

Patches for motherboards? This is the first time I heard of that.
anyway I fund the user's manual for my motherboard.
It is called "NB72-SC/SR Rev. A+"
It's a pentium4 - 256Mbyte RAM - ...
Is this anouf to know what patches I need or do you need more details?

[Fab4]

Woepsy, I just found a CD with mainboard utilitys.
"Intel INF Update Utility for Windows 98/2000/Me"

I have run it and reinstalled my burning program. But the burning program EasyCdCreator 5.0 (the original program from the CDRW) is still craching when I want to configure the burning options (wrighting speed - # copy's - ...)

Is it possible it is to late to do the intel update now?
If I format my pc again. When do I have to do the Intel update? right after the windows installation?

[confus-ed]

Woepsy, I just found a CD with mainboard utilitys.
"Intel INF Update Utility for Windows 98/2000/Me"..

..Is it possible it is to late to do the intel update now?
If I format my pc again. When do I have to do the Intel update? right after the windows installation?

That's the one .. so methinks if its still crashing, try removing your burning software, re-run the intel inf utility (just in case) & then try adding your software back again (no need for a format for this) - burning software adds its own proprietry driver to do the burning bit & if this isn't 'just so' then you get problems (btw any multiple burning software installed can also be an issue expecially with 'easy cd' as its anything but ! {not my favourite product!} - for now make sure you have only one such product installed - infact I'm tempted to recommend you go & get the free trial of Nero (@ahead software) just to test your set-up - as thats much better at giving meaningful error messages at least & imho is the best general burning package)..

[Fab4]

Hey, I just formatted my C again.
and run the Intel utility. (I haddend seen your post yet.)
But the problem remains.
Is it possile it makes a conflect withe my DSL modem 'Alcatel speed touch USB'? Because when I first ran easycdcreator I saw my dsl modem went from green to yellow (=initiallazing).
So I uninstalled my modem & easycdcreator and wanted to try with onely the cdcreator installed. But when I rebooted I got the message (still in DOS before windows started):

"
Windows could not update file %1 starting with %2
%1 %2
"

I'm guessing that can't be good Any idea what that could be?

when I then installed easycdcreator. It kept on craching. I unstalled it again in safe mode and installed my modem again.
And now im downloading Nero 6.6.0.3 . Its going slow. (8KByte/sec.)

[Fab4]

xmaspudding, I loaded the latest ASPI.
Then I ran ASPICHK and this was the result.

LOG0143: ************************************************** ***************
LOG0144: Starting ASPICHK installer on Sun Dec 12 23:31:42 2004
ASPICHK0438: OS = Windows 95 (4.90.3000)
UPGRADE1004: c:\windows\system\wnaspi32.dll dated 07/17/2002 15:03:58, 45056 bytes.
UPGRADE1062: c:\windows\system\wnaspi32.dll version 4.71.2.0
UPGRADE1004: c:\windows\system\winaspi.dll dated 06/08/2000 16:00:00, 3536 bytes.
UPGRADE1062: c:\windows\system\winaspi.dll version 1.0.0.65
UPGRADE1004: c:\windows\system\iosubsys\apix.vxd dated 07/17/2002 14:54:02, 23115 bytes.
UPGRADE1062: c:\windows\system\iosubsys\apix.vxd version 4.71.2.0
UPGRADE0965: File c:\windows\system\aspienum.vxd does not exist
UPGRADE0369: No existing file to compare, upgrade recommended
ASPICHK0522: Inconsistent version numbers among components
ASPICHK0592: ASPI installation has problems
LOG0218: Closing installer log on Sun Dec 12 23:31:42 2004
LOG0219: ************************************************** ***************

Remarque: I'm running ME not 95

[Fab4]

YES, with nero 6.6.0.3 I was able to burn a CD.
the first CD I tried failed but that is propably becaus I have been using the same over and over with the programs who didn't worked.
Then I tried with a new one and it sayed that the verification failed but it works anyway.

Thanx alot and keep on the good work!

[confus-ed]

YES, with nero 6.6.0.3 I was able to burn a CD.

Yay .. there told you easycd wasn't !