Plextor 716A supported by Microstudio 2.610 or Hoster 3.006 and higher

[gary brooks]

My unit won't play or import store bought cdg's or any recorded 48x cdr's. I've had my 716A for a year now and it worked great untill about 2 weeks ago. It will no longer burn projects either. I'm thinking the drive is going bad. I upgraded MTU to version 2.613 but nothing seems to help. I can play from my hard drive files, which were imported by the 716A , and it will play from 52x cdr's that have been recorded from other sources. I get error messages that are not listed in MTU help. error messages include: 04h 00h 02h 03h 02h 80h, 04h 00h 02h 02h 57h 00h. Does anyone have any idea what these errors mean? Any help would be appreciated.

[ddouglass]

Gary, you will have a better response if you will post this in a new thread rather than adding to one that has already been solved. From what you are saying it sounds like the drive is going out. Have you tried using it with any other program? Will windows media player play the audio of the CDG disks that won't import?

[bobcox- with the Lord]

I have three plextor 716 drives two i got from MTU.
they all work great and will copy or burn with microstudio and a few other programs i have.
You should go to plextor,com and upgrade firmware for your drive this may help.
also as stated above go to start, run, msconfig, startup. disable all.
then try microstudio and see if it will copy to a CDR not a CD-RW. Bob

hope this helps