Help! Blue screen of death caused by CDRW

Wayne

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Jul 8, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/8/00

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Hi all
Are there any CD writer gurus out there who can help me?
I've just installed a HP9100i. As part of the setup, Adaptec DirectCD was
installed. Everything was OK until last night, when I went to install
Nero 5...
I uninstalled DirectCD as required and installed Nero. I copied an audio CD
as a trial burn onto a CD-RW disc. The burn seemed to go well.
After that, everything hit the fan! I got the blue screen of death, followed
by the more ominous black screen of death. My system froze after rebooting.
Once I removed the CD-RW from the writer, it was OK again.
Today I did some reading and changed the "SCSI1Hlp.vxd" file name to
"SCSI1Hlp.old", as suggested on various sites. No change - still dies when
the CD-RW is inserted.
I tried uninstalling Nero as well, but no change. I even tried performing a
self-diagnosis on the writer, but the system froze half way through, just
after the tray opened and closed.
What else can I do??
Cheers
Wayne

SafT

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Jul 8, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/8/00

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Nero + Adaptec /= Working CDR/W
Last I heard, these two proggies were *entirely* incompatible.

Loose one of them, re install the other.
I believe, if you get a copy of it from the nero site, it warns you of
incompatibilities etc.

SafT

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voy1d

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You will also find that adaptec's `Direct CD' doesn't do a very good job..
I recommend EZ CD Creator. The three appz I use are Golderhawk CDR-WIN,
Adaptec EZ CD Creator and Nero (I have no problems with incompatibilities).
I have made only 3 coasters out of 1000 cds and that was cause i forget and
fired up q3. =\
But yeah, look around, direct cd sucks.

--
voy1d

Faith No More summed up life well,
"You Can't Always Get What You Want"
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guest5763

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Jul 8, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/8/00

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ah cd recording in windows, the most painful experience.

IRC, play mp3s, and read newsgroups/email while writing cds under Linux.

Patrick Dunford

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Jul 13, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/13/00

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>DirectCD is utter crap

Hello Roger. New alias?

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Pete

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Jul 13, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/13/00

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Patrick Dunford <no...@m.please> wrote in message
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> <<< Sat, 08 Jul 2000 19:26:15 +1200 nz.comp The Virus © >>>
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> snip
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> >DirectCD is utter crap
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> Hello Roger. New alias?
>
>

You've been away for a while. have you? "The Virus" is last weeks alias, now
he calls himself "the vulture". (If he's using V as the first letter the
"village idiot" can't be too far away)

the slimboyfat

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On Thu, 13 Jul 2000 21:39:37 +1200, "Pete" <fif...@hot-shot.com>
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LOL

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Jerry

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Jul 14, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/14/00

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Pete <fif...@hot-shot.com> wrote in message

> You've been away for a while. have you? "The Virus" is last weeks alias,
now
> he calls himself "the vulture". (If he's using V as the first letter the
> "village idiot" can't be too far away)

What a nasty piece of work you are. I should sue you for slander ... Um
wait, you weren't talking about me.

Jerry