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Thread ID: 24349	2002-09-09 04:32:00	Asus 4816A CRW - Won't Detect Blank Discs	chiefnz (545)	Press F1

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77851	2002-09-09 04:32:00	I have an Asus 4816A "High Speed" CD Recorder/Rewriter . The trouble is that when I insert a blank disc the drive doesn't pick it up . It was suggested that the Roxio drivers with XP were not the best so I updated them but that did not help . Some blank discs work and others don't and the ones that work . . . once they have been written to I can't read them in either one of my CD-Rom or Recorder drive . I am pretty sure it's a disc compatibility problem as I am able to read/write/erase CDRW discs just fine without any hassle . Does anyone know of a decent brand of disc that will possibly work in my drive, I've tried TDK, Ricoh even good ol' Warehouse Transonic CD-R's but still I've come up with nothing . Is there anything wrong with the drive? Any ideas are welcome? I need help . OS: Windows XP Pro CPU: Celeron 1 . 0Ghz RAM: 640MB Cd Recording Software: Nero 5 . 5 . 9 . 9, CloneCD 4 . 1 . 10 (the latest versions of both these programs)	chiefnz (545)
77852	2002-09-09 04:54:00	That raises the questions of how they detect a CDR and CDRW, and how they decide the burn rate . . . One would be led to assume there is an area that they do a small test write/read on . If this is the case, it suggests their is an irregularity with the drive, and the laser setting for CDRW is all that works? The dye used in CDRW disks is certainly different to CDR .	godfather (25)
77853	2002-09-09 05:10:00	Thanks for that.. sounds like I need to another drive, I would like to point out that I used to be able to write CD-R discs fine but now I'm having this problem. Guess I'll keep trying til something crops up	chiefnz (545)
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