[tjamnz]

My computer freezes up when I put in a blank CDR disk into the drive.

I can play music cd's, and read data cds fine from the drive. However .. Ill reiterate a bit. My computer just locks up when i insert a blank cdr. I have tried several brand new blank disks.

Has anyone every heard of this happening?

PC: Dell Inspiron B130. Ive tried to uninstall the driver, however, upon reboot the driver just automatically reinstalls itself.

OS: Windows 2000

Virus/ad-aware scan ok.

Sony CDRWDVD CRX850E

Thanks!

 

[pehbond]

have you tried using a different brand of disk. also have you look for any firmware updates for your drive or tried to update the driver

 

[tjamnz]

Yeah... I just tried a new brand of disk. no go. its so unusual. The drive can play dvd movies ok, play music cd's ok, i can view files and folders on other data cd's where i have picures and software exe backups etc.... but when i put in a blank disk... my whole computer just sort of locks up. Like for instance.. I cant close or open a browser window. I can't click on start (your getting the idea by now). However, immediately after i hit the eject button on the player and the drawer opens, everything works fine, and in fact whatever i clicked on before will closes/opens etc. hmm.

the cdrwdvd driver is the lastest from dell for this pc. there are no significant firmware or bios updates at this time either.

thanks for the idea though.

 

[pehbond]

have you tried right clicking on the drive and goto recording and enable recording on this drive? have you tried using hyjack this to make sure there is no spyware on your hdd?

 

[ujhenry]

You can also try to :
selecting the files to be written then
select "write these files to disk.

 

[MysticEyes]

PC: Dell Inspiron B130. Ive tried to uninstall the driver, however, upon reboot the driver just automatically reinstalls itself.

Did you just do the driver? In Device Manger right click on the Drive and unistall it, then re-boot.

 

[tjamnz]

Yeah.. ive tried that a few times. I think Im having problems becuase im running 2000 server on this notebook. anyways... my windows xp pro cd/dell driver cd is in the mail.

Im going to keep this post open until i get the new os installed... hopefully this week.