OPTICAL DRIVE ERROR WHEN WRITING AUDIO CDs

[chriswylde]

Hi all. I have a bit of a wierd one. My CD/DVD writer appears to be playing up, it will not successfully create Audio CDs. Ive tried in Sonic Stage (2.0), Media Player, Nero, and the XP CD writing wizard, all to no avail.

It writes DVDs fine, and it writes data to CD-Rs, but not audio files!!!!???

The writer gets some way through the process (it varies, sometimes half way, sometines only one song...) and then returns an error saying it was unable to write a specific track. Ive tried lots of different albums and its always a different track so its not an issue about bad data or anything...

I have a VGN-A117S, with a SONY DVD RW DW-U55A (i have not yet installed the firmware upgrade available on the vaio website). Any thoughts or suggestions gratefully received as i really have no clue about this one!!!

Kind regards,

C.

[kee-lo_]

It's probably a media type fault.
Sony drives are very fussy, they only like high grade disks.

[jammold]

Thats the odd thing though mate, because on my VAIO it likes TDK media and is quite happy to write 703MB of data to the disc.

[kee-lo_]

Yeah it's just so fussy.
A lot of drives seem to be broke in Sony equipment these days, LOOK at the amount of complaints..... it's crazy.