I’m unable to write CD’s on my computer anymore. My old CD burner went out, so I bought a new one (Mad Dog 52X), and it was making my computer sieze up. It worked fine as a CDROM only drive, but when I have the CD buring software that came with it installed, my computer freezes. I tried both the software that came with it (Ahead Nero), and also the software I had before (Roxio’s EasyCD: I downloaded the latest update, which says it supports my drive), and both had very similar symptons. With the EasyCD, as long as it’s not in the system tray, it’s OK as a CDROM drive, but freezes when I’m trying to burn a CD. I’ve been uninstalling before reinstalling, so I only have one set of software installed at a time.
So I took the drive back, and they had a no-name availbable free after rebates (48X), so I got that one. I tried the EasyCD, and this one is freezing up too, whenever I try to burn a CD. So I’m thinking it’s not a drive problem, but it’s my computer. The old CDrom drive was having problems just as a CDROM drive, and it wasn’t freezing my computer, so I think it really is broken.
I checked the IRQ assignments, but didn’t see any obvious conflicts.
Does anyone have any idea what mught be going on? Maybe it’s just that my computer is getting old, but it does what I need it to otherwise.
I have an Emachine 333 MHz with the AMD K6 processor, about four years old, running Win98. It has 128 MBytes Ram. Device manager always says the drive is working properly.
Extra bonus info in case it’s relevent: I recently got a digital camera, and the Kodak photo transfer software was installed before the new CDrom drive. I’ve also been having problems with my USB Zip Drive, which the computer won’t assign a drive letter unless it’s plugged in when the computer boots up. It used to recognize the drive as soon as it was plugged into the USB port. When I plug it in after booting, it knows it’s there, since it shows up as a drive in Device Manager and the USB driver shows up in Device Manager, it just doesn’t get a drive letter. I tried the USB port in the back, but that port didn’t work any better.