can't burn in Win2k

[AlanHK]

I've been using various CD burning software under Win98 for my Sony CRX140e without any problems for years now. I recently installed Win2k SP4 on the same machine. Now nothing will burn successfully, sometimes I apparently get halfway through a burn and it fails; sometimes it just aborts immediately.

I've tried Nero 5.5. Fireburn, CloneCD.... none work
I used ForceASPI to install Adaptec's 4.60 ASPI. Still failed.

If I reboot to Win98, it all works the same as ever.

Any advice?

[SatStorm]

very strange bug. Never heard of... Does your Sony CRX140e has the latest firmware?

[AlanHK]

I'm pretty sure this is a Windows problem. But I did check Sony's site; there aren't any updates. I have firmware 1.0n as I got it. I found an update that is supposed to be 1.0s (with Japanese text) on Driverguide.com, but I'm suspicious of running things from that site, anyone can upload anything there and I see a lot of files that I know are bogus if not necessarily harmful.

If anyone is interested I'm attaching the output from Nero's Infotool if the forum will let me.

infotool.txt

[AlanHK]

Well, I'm still stuck.
I now have to reboot to Win98 to burn anything. That at least indicates it's a software problem.

How do I make Windows recognise my burner?
The device manager for Win98 says it's using the standard MS drivers. Seems identical to the Win2k setup.

Any clues gratefully accepted.

[Bjs]

Go to start , setting's , control panel , add/remove program's .

If sp3 for win2k is not listed , bingo .

Uninstall sp4 , visit link provided below to visit ms for sp3 pack , download and install and see what happen's .

If it work's , then install sp4 for win2k ... retry .

Last , firmware update for burner .

There is also a 30mb wrapup of the latest update's ... if ms dosent hand it over , do a web seach for the kb?????? , I found the english patch on and egyption site .

Strange behaviour from ms , it gave me the massive sp4 pack , but refused the final 30mb round up ... idiot's .

As for that Sony CRX140e unit , they do have that common fault as reported by other owner's on other forum's ... if it's older than 2 year's or done alot of work , it might be worth while to replace the the unit .

Liteon , lg , and sony latest unit's have no issue under win2k with sp4 ... I own more than 9 unit's .

Ps : check out

http://sony.storagesupport.com/cdrw/win2k.htm (seem's you should have had sp3 for win2k first) .

Also

http://sony.storagesupport.com/cdrw/index.htm (choose your model)

Finally

http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Firmware/SingleModel.aspx?DriveId=278 (firmware here)

Should get you up and running .

[AlanHK]

Go to start , setting's , control panel , add/remove program's .
If sp3 for win2k is not listed , bingo.
Uninstall sp4 , visit link provided below to visit ms for sp3 pack , download and install and see what happen's.
If it work's , then install sp4 for win2k ... retry.

Could you explain that? SP4 is supposed to include all previous SPs.
In fact, I installed Win2k using a slipstreamed CD, including SP4. I saw Sony's site only mentioned SP3, but I thought that was just because they weren't up to date. But I'm ready to try anything if there's a reason.

Last , firmware update for burner.

Is that just on general principle or are there known issues with firmware and Win2k? I have 1.0n; I discovered 1.0s on an NEC.jp site, so it's probably legit, though all the doc is in Japanese so it's a leap of faith to install it. But I'll go ahead.

There is also a 30mb wrapup of the latest update's ... if ms dosent hand it over , do a web seach for the kb?????? , I found the english patch on and egyption site .

Strange behaviour from ms , it gave me the massive sp4 pack , but refused the final 30mb round up ... idiot's .

They don't want to make it easy for people to stay with Win2k; they don't sell it any more.
-- But a very good place to sort this out is at http://www.msfn.org/, there are several groups there providing various ways to customise Windows, even an "unoffical SP5" that rolls up all the updates. See also http://www.autopatcher.com/.

As for that Sony CRX140e unit , they do have that common fault as reported by other owner's on other forum's ... if it's older than 2 year's or done alot of work , it might be worth while to replace the the unit

Could you be more specific about this "common fault"; I'm floundering around here because pretty much all I can say is "it doesn't work" and can't find a way to describe it to let me diagnose the problem.

Thanks a lot for taking an interest. I'll try the firmware first, possibly the SP rollback.
I also checked out new drives, a DVD burner is about half what I paid for the CDRW, and about 10x faster... but even if I upgrade, I still want to solve this.

[rkr1958]

It might be your ASPI drivers. I'd recommend giving ForceASPI a try. You can use that tool to check your ASPI drivers and update them. ForceASPI is listed in the tools section, https://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=ForceASPI_Drivers

[AlanHK]

It might be your ASPI drivers. I'd recommend giving ForceASPI a try. You can use that tool to check your ASPI drivers and update them. ForceASPI is listed in the tools section, https://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=ForceASPI_Drivers

I did that, as noted in my first post. Everything is at 4.6.

[Dubber]

I used to have the same drive and it worked perfectly on my old dual-boot PC with 98SE and W2K in either OS. I dunno what causes your trobles but I'd recommend reinstalling W2K clean if it's possible. My point is, it may take less time to reinstall rather than keep troubleshooting the problem.

[rkr1958]

It might be your ASPI drivers. I'd recommend giving ForceASPI a try. You can use that tool to check your ASPI drivers and update them. ForceASPI is listed in the tools section, https://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=ForceASPI_Drivers

I did that, as noted in my first post. Everything is at 4.6.

Ahh, so you did. I was wondering why no one had suggested this yet. I need to read more carefully next time. There's really no reason why your burns fail under W2K and worked in W98.

As Dubber suggested, your best bet might be a format and reinstall on W2K. Then I'd install my burning software and see if that works before installing anyother applications.

[AlanHK]

I got the CD burner working.
After checking out the price of a new CD burner, I saw that DVD burners were hardly much more. So I bought one today. I haven't connected it; but I did install the OEM Nero 6.6 that came with it. And now my old Sony burner works -- not just in Nero, but all the other burning apps.

I did a Nero Infotool report and compared it with the earlier one. I can't see which changes were critical. There are a dozen or so new drivers, most have cryptic names, but some at least I can tell are various sound or video codecs, so I don't know if any are hardware related.

So I'll just have to put it down to Nero voodoo.

[rkr1958]

Glad you got it working. Good job of troubleshooting.