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annabee53
Sep 20, 2006, 08:02 PM
The CD-RW drive is not working. It says that it cannot complete a burn or it says that it is done but there is nothing there or an incomplete burn. The drivers are up to date. Any ideas? The computer is about 3 years old and running Windows XP service pack 2. It is a Pentium 4, 2,4 gHZ and has 256 megs of ram.
ScottGem
Sep 21, 2006, 06:50 AM
What burner software are you using? What speed are you burning at? And I would not recommend running XP on less that 1G of RAM. Minimum, In my opinion, is 512.
jham_lindow
Sep 21, 2006, 03:53 PM
Ya, the data I have is inconclusive in that I need to know the company who made it, the driver version, and the model number.
Curlyben
Sep 22, 2006, 01:48 AM
To follow on from what Scott said;
Have you checked to make sure it's not a problem with the media ? (try a different brand of cd)
What data are you trying to burn ? (maybe an error with the data or encoding method)
When was the last time you did maintenance on this machine ? (not only on the Software, but also cleaning the CD drive with a lens cleaning disc)
That should give you a few things to work with.
Jham, again not really helpful in this situation.
Please read the questions. Thank you.
ScottGem
Sep 22, 2006, 06:41 AM
Ya, the data I have is inconclusive in that I need to know the company who made it, the driver version, and the model number.
I can understand needing the mfg. But what possible reason would you need driver and model number for this problem?