I bought a PC in summer and when it came it worked like a charm.  It's the old chestnut of dvd burning.

I burnt discs beautifully, but then it all went wrong.

It just won't behave.  I've wasted loads of discs trying to burn simple data.

I had no problems before, but then I started noticing it wouldn't work after I installed a game and my sister came round to get some stuff burnt.  

I used to get aborted by user error msgs.  But then when I tried to run the normal version of Power2Go it gave me an error message.  After twidling about with the thing, still no joy so I emailed the manufactuerer.

The CONSIDERED changing the DMA settings in primary (note I have three each of  primary/secondary and the other one).  I changed the one they told me to P10.  Then the other option was to uninstall all Primary IDE channels and then the uninstall the dvd rw.

Still nothing changed.

I tried again to INSTALL a patch for Power2Go and this time round at least, the program did not crash.  But when I try and burn it's coughs out the dvd with a failed error msg.

I don't know how many more discs I can waste.  I've EVEN got an external dvd RW as well and that won't work either.

I know the PC did some automatic UPDATES a while ago, but I don't know what its updated.  I did hear WinXP SP2 can cause errors but I don't have that installed.  At least I don't think I have since it does not appear on the control panel.

Does anyone ELSE have any ideas?

I would of understood just one dvd rw not working, but both???Old question been revamped........huh?