Exact Audio Copy won't detect my DVD writer

[curlyween]

Greetings,

I have installed EAC on my work PC (Intel P4 3GHz, with Intel chipset) which has a Pioneer 108 DVD burner and an LG CD/DVD combo drive.
EAC detects both drives without a problem and allows configuration of both.
I installed EAC at home (Athlon 64 3000+ with nForce4 chipset) and it won't detect my Pioneer 107 DVD burner at all (the only optical drive in the PC). Thus no config options, won't even detect that an audio CD is in the drive (all other software that uses the 107 works fine, btw).
Anyone else had this problem? I have checked out the FAQ on the EAC web site with no hints, except maybe having to install the ASAPI drivers.
I haven't installed any specific drivers on my work PC, and as I said, all other software at home works with the 107.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

curlyween

[Jim44]

Are you logged in as Administrator on the home machine? Buried in the FAQ is the mention of needing to be on an Admin account on XP.

"WinNT/2000/XP EAC is able to use a native interface in that OS. This is still buggy and only recommended when you don't want to install 3rd party software. Nevertheless, this will only work if you are logged in with admin rights. If you encounter problems, it is strongly recommended to download ASAPI and to change the interface to that."

It's been a while, but I believe I was able to use EAC with my Plextor drive, logged in as Admin (I do not have an ASPI driver loaded).

Hope that helps,
Jim

[curlyween]

Thanks for the reply Jim, but yes, I am Administrator at home. I will check out what drivers I have installed at home (I'm at work at the moment ) apart from the generic XP ones. If I can't get EAC running I'll just have to stick with Audiograbber (which has been great btw but prone to the occasional skip and pop etc. which is why I thought I'd give EAC a try.

Cheers

[jman98]

This may not help, but I had some weird problems with EAC under Windows XP and I had to install a copy of winaspi32.dll from a Nero directory into the directory where I installed EAC. You don't say what OS you have, but needing this file has become commonplace for XP users, even though if you read the EAC docs it says that you shouldn't need to do this at all. I see from your 2nd post that you are running XP at home, so give this a shot. If you don't have Nero, do a web search on it and you should be able to find a copy of this dll somewhere. What makes me mad about it is that I think there are some strong indications that people heavily involved in EAC know good and well that EAC probably won't work at all under Windows XP without this dll and they do nothing at all to tell you about it. I did a pretty intensive search on Google and I found a reference to needing this file to make EAC work under XP at some forum that was dedicated to talking about something other than EAC and the guy who mentioned it just mentioned it as an aside in his post.

[curlyween]

Thanks for your replies, guys.
I did a search on the EAC forums and as suggested there ended up copying the Nero aspi dll (wnaspi32.dll) into the EAC directory, and everything worked straight away. Funny how one file makes all the difference (I am running XP SP2 btw).
Thanks again and all the best for Christmas.

curlyween

[funny:)]

Thanks for your replies, guys.
I did a search on the EAC forums and as suggested there ended up copying the Nero aspi dll (wnaspi32.dll) into the EAC directory, and everything worked straight away. Funny how one file makes all the difference (I am running XP SP2 btw).
Thanks again and all the best for Christmas.

curlyween

thx.. so much..