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

[JohnD]

Thank you Bryan:
I will post that to you on Friday. My problem is I'm at work out of town and my PC is at home.. But I will certainly do that asap. I appreciate your help. On a privace point? Could I maybe send that list to you in a PM ? if not, I will post here to assist in resolving this frustrating delema. Thanks again.

[JohnD]

Bryan as requested.. I hope I don't get hacked having to post this publically.
Adobe
Alcohol 100%
FileZilla
Games
iISystem Wiper
McAfee
Spybot
Startup
WinPatrol
Int. Explorer
MSN Explorer
Outlook Express
Remote Assistance
Windows Media Player
Windows Messenger
CDRWin 5
Microsoft Office Tools, Access, Excel,
Frontpage, Outlook, Powerpoint, Word
Faxtools
Creative—SoundBlaster
MTU
Olympus Camedia master
Steinberg Clean 4.01
Wavelab Lite
Label Editor
Sygate Personal Firewall
WinMx
vanBasco’s karaoke player
Java 2
Lavasoft AdWare SE
Adobe Reader 7
MusicMatch
LimeWire
SureThing
Adobe Photoshop3
Audacity
MSN messenger 7.5
iPod
iTunes
Quicktime
LP Recorder
LP Ripper
ABBYY FineReaner tools
Abbyy FineReader 5.0 Sprint

[MTUSUPPORT]

These are the files that I see that could cause a problem if they load on startup:

Alcohol 100%
Olympus Camedia master -possible not sure some other printer and camera software has caused this in the past, by using the ASPI drivers.

MusicMatch
iPod
iTunes
Quicktime

These 4 could also possibly cause this, if they load on startup. All you need to do is disable the programs from running on Startup. Now if you have the computer up and running, and then go run one of these programs, and then go to Microstudio and try to burn a disc, you will get the error again.

[JohnD]

Bryan-- I want to thank you (and Doug Cox) for your patience and perserverance... Your post above, listed the culprit.. Alcohol 100%.. and that was the trouble.. as soon as I turned that program off.. I burned a perfect disc.. I never even use that program (my son installed it when he built my PC). So I uninstalled it.. and have had no further troubles.. my PX716A works like a charm.. again THANK YOU!!!!

[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

[gary brooks]

Well i've tried everything, and looked for help on plextor and everything there tells me that the drive is bad. I just can't understand why it reads all 52x but not the 48x. The import works on all the 52x, but not the 48x, even the ones i know it has worked on in the past. It'll play the 52x in wmp, but not the 48x.

[George]

Have you tried downloading any firmware for that burner from Plextor? Probably won't help, but sure can't hurt to see.

George

[JohnD]

Have you added any new programs to your PC recently? As you can see from my troubles (above), for whatever reason, some programs interfere with the burner's drives....???
If so, follow Bryan's suggestion to me.. and turn it or them off one by one until you see a difference.

[gary brooks]

yea i've downloaded updates, firmware and also turned all programs off, but none have been added since it last worked right

[gary brooks]

besides any programs or firmware not installed should make it not work at all i would think ......it'll work fine on 52x except for the write part...won't write at all

[ddouglass]

Gary, I think that Dell is right that the drive is bad. Have you ever had a floppy disk that the drive it was written on could read but no other floppy drive could read it? This is caused by misalignment of the drive head.

In a cd drive instead of a magnet head you have a laser and an photo-diode. the laser emits the light of course and the photo-diode reads the light reflected off the disk. The speed of the read function (48x, 52x, etc) determines the timing for the laser/photo-diode operation. If this timing is off due to a failure or change in component values then the drive may read at some speeds but not at others. I know this sounds complicated but this type of problem does point to a hardware problem and not a software one.

[gary brooks]

Now that makes sense to me. Misalignment has to be the problem. I never knew exactly how a cd worked. Well i'm confident enuff now to just order me another drive, probably just as cheap as having this one repaired. Thanks so much guys, I really appreciate your help.

[ddouglass]

I have a plextor 760 that works great. Don't know if any of the 716's are still available but they work great too.