IS MY CDWRITER BROKEN?? HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[awsheat]

My cd writer (Teac 4x) has been acting up lately

Symptoms... I burned 3 coasters in a row. these were pure data burns just trying to burn a divx file.

Nero will burn the cd's fine and when finished i can see the file but it wont open.. it just simply bogs down my pc until i end task.

I know its nothing to do with the divx files themselves or windows software i have eliminated that.

EZCD wont even burn cd's it just freezes when I try to burn.

I tried uninstalling/reinstalling Nero, same problem.

The cdrw reads data fine.

This cdrw has worked fine for over a year, I've burned approximately 200 cd's with it

There is an updated firmware for it but apparently I cant flash it in a win2k environment but I dont feel this is the problem since it has worked fine thus far.

I did enable DMA on both IDE buses( in win2k dont have a dma enable for the cdroms just the ide buses)

any ideas????

edit: also a couple times i tried to uninstall/ reinstall the drive i got BSOD's (memory dumps) which i've NEVER gotten in win2k

thanks in advance for any responses

 

[Adul]

try a cd lens cleaner first.

 

[awsheat]

bump

thanks for the reply.. i have a cd cleaner i will try it when i get home

any other suggestions?

also this problem might be ocurring becuase i bought some oversized blank cd's that are 850mb vs 700mb???

I bought them cuz they were cheap but my burner wont allow me to burn them past 720mb anyway.. hmm

help

 

[mindiris]

Had that problem in the past.

CD cleaner was the cure for one drive, but an RMA did the job for the other

 

[MiExStacY]

have you recently just changed to diffrent type of cdr media?

try using iso buster to see if the files are burned onto the cd and try to extract them.