Win XP with CD burners

[VeryTired]

hi pple, i was wondering if you guyz can help me solve this problem.

First of, right now i have Win Xp on my computer and when i first used Win Xp with my burner (cyber drive 16x12x40), it read all of my media files on my cd fine. All of a sudden like after 2 months, every single time when i read a media file from a cd, the sound skips (making echo sounds). I have no idea why it is doing this. I don't have a audio cable behind the drive that is connected to the sound card...so i took my old burner HP 8000 series, and boom same problem but not as violent....So now i have no idea what to do... Can anyone help ?

Thanks

[JPMiller]

Stating obvious...but it must be done...
Check cleanliness of CDs
blow out drive to clean lens or use the cleaning cd with little brushes
reinstall drivers for soundcard
Uninstall soundcard and reinstall
dont use cds for listening to music...copy to hardrive and play from there...(sorry had to do it)

[VeryTired]

o okay, i have done that, but no luck at all. The funny thing is that i took my cyber drive burner, and i placed it in my old computer which has Win 98 on it (500mhz HP), then the media files worked fine So now i am wondering is it XP that is screwing up my burners or i need to configure something in bios to fix this... ??

[griobhta]

Can you check these cd's on another machine to see if it is a problem with the media?

g

[youngqd]

I find XP & Win2K lousy at reading CDs made under Win98.
I still have a Win98 box on my network to read older CDs.

[VeryTired]

yep i took the same exact same cd to read from my other comp to the Hp comp with Win 98 + cyber drive (i put it there), and then it worked fine...that is the strange thing....so now i wonder what is the problem exactly...it can't be the cd.....BIOS?

[youngqd]

It's the ASPI layer, the way Windows looks at it's CDs. W2k & XP gave up dragging all the W98 CDR & CDRW code along.

[VeryTired]

o okay, i guess now the only way for me to read media files is to use my normal CD-R drive, since you said its the ASPI.

O well, Thanks a lot guyz for your help

[griobhta]

If it all worked fine to start withXP and then all of a sudden stoped working then you can be almost sure that XP should work fine with those cd's. Have you burned any media files to sd using XP and do those have the same problem?

I would tend to be of the belief that you have installed something that has caused this mess up. Have you updated or installed some program such as one for cdburning or media player. Try using a different media player.

Also i would check and see what other things are running on your pc at the same time to see if it is just over load.

What spec is your machine?
Are you using the same media player all the time?
Have you changed anything on your pc around the time the problem occured?

g

ps you dont need to have a cable from the cd drive to the sound card as these days pc's can read audio digitaly from the drive without it being a resource problem

[VeryTired]

Well the thing is that, yes i have tried to burn media files from my computer and playing it back from my cyber drive burner. Still no good. I guess your right about the first part, where my medias DID work fine and the all of a sudden it doesn't...Man i do not want to format but that seems like the only choice i have. And usually i just have the normal stuff running in my background like anti-virus, volume control, MSN messenger. Thats about it.

My specs for my comp:

1.8a p4
512 ddr 333mhz
80g Wd 7200 rpm
cyberdrive burner (16x10x40)
Lg cd-drom (52x)
Asus S533 (mobo)
Xp sp1
(any more info ?)