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I just did a fresh install of MCE, and at first, the drive was working as it should. But earlier today, it failed the installation of my printer driver, and afterward would cause Windows to freeze regardless of which program disk that I tried to run on it. At first, it just froze and I had to do a hard shutdown, but the last several times that I tried it, it froze for a few seconds and then BSODed with 0xD1 stop error.

I rebooted into another OS and the drive works fine, so it seems that hardware is ruled out. I uninstalled the burner from the Device Manager and rebooted, but this didn]t help. Then I used the Recovery Console to run CHKDSK /R, but no joy. I thought about running a system restore, but I would have to go back to the original installation configuration and lose everything that I have done since. I'm considering doing a repair installation, but after thinking about it, I started thinking about the error. It was "IRQ not less or equal", which I believe has to do with memory allocation. I checked a guide online, but none of the MS KBs had any relationship to the drive. Can I check or reset something to prevent the IRQ conflict?

I hope that someone can advise me on this, because until I get this cleared up, I don't want to activate the OS, and until I do, I can't download any updates.

 

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I just sent an email to Pioneer about this, but I would sure love to get someone else's insight also. I found where that there is an updated firmware for the drive, but I really don't like flashing anything, unless I have to. Would firmware have any relationship to this problem?