I guess it was about 3 or 4 months ago that this started I just assumed that my Burner went bad No Big Deal. I went and got another then I had the same problem. Now to help understand I am a truck driver so I only WORK on my pc when I can thus the 3 or 4 months. So last week a friend and I were discussing pc issues and realized we had similar issues with our burners. Now depending on what burner I have installed at a given point KIND of depends on which problem I have. Now My Sony CRX215E5 Xp will pick up It is in My computer and device manager, but it will not pick up any format of media(IE music,data, game whatever). When I try to open the disk it shows up as a blank disk. I have uninstalled the driver, reinstalled it. Used the Microsoft regedit fix, I didn't find any filters upper or lower. I don't have any Flash Devices that I am aware and I do not have Ustorage.exe. Although I do have Nero OEM 6.6.0.18 Nerovision express and nero toolkit installed. I have seen several people with similar problems but their solutions haven't help out mine.

Also I have a compaq UWAVE MB with an 850 Mhz Amd Proc 384 mb RAM running 786K1 Bios version


I went to start/CP/Perf&Main/AdminTools/CompMgmt/SysTools/EventMgr/SYS
Then scrolled down til I found an error. This is what it says:


Type Date Time Source Category Event User Comp

Error 11/28/05 2:51:12 PM atapi None 9 N/A Home-Office


When you GO to the error properties this is what it says:

Event Prop (Tab)

Same info as above date time type source etc.

It gives a description: The device, \Device\Ide\IdePort1, did not respond within the timeout period.
For more Information, see Help and Support Center at
hxxp://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

The explanation says to make sure the CD or DVD is clean or makle sure that it doesn't need replacing

Bytes:
0000: 0f 00 50 00 01 00 a4 00 ..P...¤.
0008: 00 00 00 00 09 00 04 c0 .......À
0010: 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0028: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0030: 00 00 00 00 07 00 00 00 ........
0038: 40 00 00 0e 00 00 00 00 .......
0040: 00 20 0a 12 48 01 00 00 . ..H...
0048: 00 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 ........
0050: 58 99 dd f7 00 b2 ad 82 X™Ý÷.²­‚
0058: 00 00 00 00 20 d6 a1 82 .... Ö¡‚
0060: 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0068: 46 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 F.......
0070: 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

Word:
0000: 0050000f 00a40001 00000000 c0040009
0010: 00000100 00000000 00000000 00000000
0020: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0030: 00000000 00000007 0e000040 00000000
0040: 120a2000 00000148 00000000 00000004
0050: f7dd9958 82adb200 00000000 82a1d620
0060: 00000001 00000000 00000046 00000000
0070: 00000008 00000000Will it read them in safe mode?
Check the Sony website, there MAY be a firmware upgrade available.

Do you have an XP disc to boot from?
Try recovery console and type in the letter of the disc drive. D: for example.

Once at the root of this drive put a disc into the drive and type in DIR.
If it lists files then its a software issue. If not it's a hardware issue.

May need to remaster.