Sudden Problem With MicroStudio for no obvious reason...

[Harryoke]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

First thing I noticed is your Firmware for the 712 is way out of date. Plextor's latest for that drive is version 1.09, so you need to go to Plextor's web page and get the update.
Have you been doing the Microsoft Updates on this machine? If not you should update it for security and all the fixes they put out for XP. Be sure to go to their Update Page and do the "Custom" updates. Get all except the Hardware updates as these tend to be generic and usually wrong.
Do you have any other burning programs installed?
The next question is what have you installed or changed between when it worked and now?

Excellent logic...was thinking that myself, BUT, the machine rarely if ever goes on the net...so in theory, not changing anything, nothing should have stopped working. I could fire it up and do those updates. When I go to the Plextor site, what verbage am I looking for...driver update or something like that??

As to additions...I added CloneCD, and possibly AudioGrabber recently. Maybe I may have to try uninstalling them. That may be the only change I made at all...

[Harryoke]

Dale, I uninstalled CloneCD, tried and still did not work, so I upgraded the firmware to 1.09 on the Plextor, and it now appears to work. Thanks sir, you saved my butt tonight.

[ddouglass]

Clone CD would not cause it or at least mine doesn't. Some of the burner programs will either create a virtual drive or lock your drive for their exclusive use.
Sounds to me like you need to Upgrade your Microstudio as well. There has been a lot of improvement since 2.6xx.

[Harryoke]

Ya, I have 4.20 on the home PC, but my burner is kaput for now. Eventually I will probably abandon the PC I got from MTU and upgrade everything onto my next lappy once Windows 7 is released.

Thanks again Dale.

[madjim- with the Lord]

Originally Posted by Harryoke

Ya, I have 4.20 on the home PC, but my burner is kaput for now. Eventually I will probably abandon the PC I got from MTU and upgrade everything onto my next lappy once Windows 7 is released.

Thanks again Dale.

Hey Harry,
I see you are still kicking butt at Finn's every week. Regardless of whether you keep the MTU machine or get a new laptop, it would be smart to set it up with XP. Remember, if you decide to go with windows 7 you will be getting an operating sytem that is in it's infantcy. It seems Microsoft doesn't get a new operating sytem really stable until after a couple of service packs have been released. I think you will find that Admin and the long time Hoster users will agree with me on this point.

Keep On Rockin'

Jim