Q: I have a Dell E310 Dimension Desktop running XP SP2 and my dvd and cd burner went out on it.. can somewhat still get them to play but not burn.. after a week of fighting drivers and codecs and roxio and sony and dell and microsoft.. I gave in and bought a external HP 1040e Light Scribe writer and burner.. with sigh... Nero software. It has been a nightmare. I have finally uninstalled all of the things that even remotely resemble another burner on my machine and now it won't install the software from Nero because I have no APF doohickeys.. I forget.. I have brain tissue that has to be the consistency of maltomeal by now.. and need some help please.
A: Ok, so, make sure there are no conflicts internally. (dvd 1 is set to master, drive 2 is set to slave, and both on the same ide channel, they don't like sharing with a hard drive very much) While you are in there, check all the connections to be sure they are in properly Install the full driver package from the cd that came with your drive. reboot if this is still not working... click start/control panel/ (in classic view) system/ hardware tab/ Device Manager button/ click IDE ATA/ ATAPI controllers, make sure you do NOT have DMA enabled, set it to PIO. reboot It may be a bit slower than dma, but more stable as it does not use all your cpu cycles. Found this out the hard way.. By the way, does any body want to buy 4 or 5 sets of silver colored plastic drink coasters?
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