Am starting to get alittle peeved with this current problem. Every time I try to burn a CD, it fails somewhere along the burning process and produces an error message suggesting I try a lower writing speed. This doesn't seem to help matters, and nearly 10 wasted cds down the line the problem isn't going away. Any ideas to solve this. I've thought about re-installing the cd driver, or the writing software ( NTI cd maker 2000 )to see if this helps. Any help would be appreciated.

Jon: Updating the CD driver will not help. The CD driver is just for reading. CD Burning applications have the CD Burning driver built into the burning application, or installed with the burning application. Many CD Burning software programs need ASPI to write to the CD correctly. I suggest you upgrade your ASPI layer driver. You can get it here: http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/support/driverdetail.html?sess=no&language=English+US&cat=/Product/ASPI-4.70&filekey=aspi_471a2.exe You may not like this, but if you can't get the problem corrected and you really want to get CD burning working on this system, I suggest you get a different operating system. Many people will confirm that Windows ME is the most problematic "true" operating system Microsoft ever made, downgrade to Windows 98 or upgrade to Windows 2000.

try burnning at a grately reduced speed

Hi Jon. You can try checking/unchecking DMA in your cd burner's setting...look in device manager. -good luck

I'm not sure if this makes much difference to the issue, but what I didn't make clear in my initial post was that that previously my CD writer was working absolutely as it should. Burning at top speed ( 16x ) with no previous failures. Now it fails every time even at lower writing speeds. I can't think of any reason for this.