Hi guys
Try to burn cds with my cd writer through media player 9.0. When it gets to the point of writing the disc it crashes and restarts the whole system, is this down to my drive or software, Its driving me mad

Try different burning software and check the difference.

XP has a built-in CD burner. No need to use WMP. You could also upgrade your WMP to WMP 11.

HI guys real help needed before I go mad
Put a new writer in my tower today as i thought the other one was broken but getting same things going on with htis one, keeps restarting my system for no reason, its coming up tith a stop error. Windows help telling me a device driver on my computer is forcing windows to have to recover all the time. ANY IDEAS WELCOMED PLEASE HELP ME

The verbatim error messages would help us help.

If you have not already turn off the auto restart function.

How to turn off Auto Reboot in XP

Right click on My Computer

Select Properties

Select the Advanced Tab->Startup & Recovery section

Select the Settings button

uncheck "Automatically restart" Apply".

This will give you a blue screen withthe error message rather than rebooting the computer.


Also:

Check your Event Viewer via Administrative Tools.

Open the System as well as Application tabs and look for red X errors that coincide with your problem. Details here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427




Also if your blue screen is showing a memory dump do the following:



Go to start | search (type in) .dmp
Note the location of your .dmp files.
If no .dmp files check for minidump.
Remember this location and the path that leads to it.

Then:

1) Download and install the

Debugging Tools from Microsoft

All you need do is download and install this. Make no attempt to start or run it.

2) Download and install this

debugwiz

This is a DOS based batch file that will command the above Microsoft Tools.

3) Open the Wiz & Browse to, or paste in the path to, your .dmp file.

4) After the Wiz creates a Text document attach it back to this thread.


If you are looking for links on how to interpret this data for yourself try here first:

http://www.wd-3.com/archive/registercontext.htm