cd burner wont burn cds

[whattakuntry]

i tried burning a cd and nothing happens.it worked fine before.now nothing.any suggestions? thanks!

[EzyStvy]

And the name of the burning software is____________________.

Does the software even load up? Feel free to provide as much info as possible.

[whattakuntry]

Sorry!Its Roxio software.Yes the software loadsup. gets to the playlist, i push burn.then burn setup appears, push ok.........and nothing.Could there be something wrong in the registry?

[RJ]

Probably the burner died. How old is it, and have you burned alot before ?
Also, what brand and model is it ?
Can it read CDs ?

RJ

[whattakuntry]

its only a couple of years old. i dont know the model IDE 5233?.Yes ive burned a lot on it before.yes it reads cds.It will burn with windows media player but it is soooooo slow.when i use the roxio cd and dvd creator 6 is when i have the prob.

[sirkism]

what kind of _burner_ do you use?

[whattakuntry]

"i dont know the model IDE 5233?" as stated above.

[glc]

If it's burning slow, you need to check the status of the IDE controllers in device manager, all channels need to be set to DMA.

[whattakuntry]

It burns slow when i use the windows media player.When i use the roxio software that the burner came with, it doesnt burn at all.I did as you suggested and changed to dma.When i tried to reboot "operating system not found" came up.I went into the bios and noticed that the cd writer was on dma mode 4.Switched back to default mode and the computer booted.??????????