Plextor CD-R PX-W5224A

[Wayne Orlicki]

I ordered and installed Karaoke Suite 4 last month, then ordered and installed a Plextor CD burner from MTU. I've been having a ball creating CDG tracks and successfully burned my first disc. It worked flawlessly the first time. Then I started on my second CDG project. Everything went fine until I was ready to burn the second disc with Microstudio. That's when I got the message that my CD burner was not ready; it "contains no disc or is not ready." It contained a disc, all right.

I tried another disc. No change. I then put an audio CD in the drive. The drive spun up and down a few times with the yellow drive indicator light on steady, then wound down and started flashing its green light. No indication came up on the screen that anything was in the drive. I clicked on My Computer, then the CD drive icon, and got no indication of any files (tracks) being read or that it was ready to play the CD.

I pulled up Microstudio and the Import Tracks screen. It read the CD tracks... initially. Later, after trying other data CDs and failing to read any files through Windows, I reinserted the audio CD. This time Microstudio could no longer read any tracks. I was also able to play a track through Microstudio's Play screen initially, but that failed on the second try.

I've been through the MTU forums, but all I find there is "Contact Plextor." Not easily done on a weekend. I also uninstalled Nero and rebooted. No change.

Any help on this?


Windows XP Home fully updated (critical updates)
CPU: P-4 1.6 GHz
256 Mb RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX200
DirectX 9.0b