No, there's nothing wrong with the drive or the media. Works fine in everything else. CDA is the only thing giving me a problem.

The only thing I can think of is that maybe it has something to do with a service being turned off that used to be on (I recently turned off some services, but I'm not sure which ones, of course). I tried turning on some ofthe ones that I know I turned off, but no luck. I also installed 5.2d (I was on 5.2c), but that didn't make any difference.

Does anyone know of any services that must be active for CDA to work properly?

Not off-hand. But if you remember what services you turned off, you could try turning them back on, one-by-one....


geoff

When you say it takes 10 minutes for the drive to become ready to burn, what exactly do you mean? 10 minutes from when you tell CDA to burn the disc until it starts the burn process? What options do you have checked in CDA? Do you have it set to verify the disc before burning? Do you have CDA set to pre-render a file so you don't get buffer underrun? How many processes do you have running in Windows when trying to do a burn? Are you possible cramped on ram space and the Windoze page file is being severely worked? How's your hard drive space? Have you defragged your hard drive lately? It could be the system is having a hard time of it when trying to create the pre-render file due to lack of contiguous hard drive space. A lot of questions, but things to check out.

Jack