Dick Blumenthal Posted December 19, 2007 Report Share Posted December 19, 2007 I am having a similar problem with Ecdc 5.1.2600. I have a gateway computer, and the original version was an oem version that I upgraded to 5.1.2600. It ran with no problem until my hard disk crashed I replaced it with an larfer hard disk and reinstalled many of my programs including ECDE 5.1.2600. I am currently running windows xp with sp2 upgrade. All of the above programs run well. I also ahe windoes media player and real player on my machine. I recently tried to burn a cd and the program told me it could not find my CD Player( I don't have a DVD player). I had no trouble burning the CD using Windows media player, and real player, since they recognized the CD player/burner with out any problem When I go to control panel and look at drivers, Winows tells me the the player/burner is working properly. Finally I went to the Roxio site, and while the site directed me to an icon that said I could download an upgrade to this version. It would not let me download the upgrade. I use OPERA as my Browser, and have no trouble downloading other upgrades ot programs Dick Blumenthal rlb4 at columbia.edu (email address expanded to foil spam 'bots) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gi7omy Posted December 19, 2007 Report Share Posted December 19, 2007 You can't download updates to OEM versions I'm afraid Apart from that, although yyou may use Opera as a browser, are you sure that IE7 wasn't installed along with other 'critical' updates? It sneaks in the back door. Also WMP11 causes problems - if you have that, uninstall it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynn98109 Posted December 19, 2007 Report Share Posted December 19, 2007 First, I'd suggest you remove your email address if it isn't already too later - these boards are trawled by search engines like google, which in turn are searched by spammers "harvesting" email addresses for spamming purposes. Second, unless you have EXACTLY the same hardware setups, you have the same SYMPTOMS, which isn't necessarily the same problem. Third, for Brendon to be able to research your burner, he will need the burner id string - right-click 'MyComputer' > properties > hardware > device manager > click on the CD-ROM icon and quote the id string exactly, character for character, upper or lower case exactly, space for space. Lynn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Blumenthal Posted December 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 First, I'd suggest you remove your email address if it isn't already too later - these boards are trawled by search engines like google, which in turn are searched by spammers "harvesting" email addresses for spamming purposes. Second, unless you have EXACTLY the same hardware setups, you have the same SYMPTOMS, which isn't necessarily the same problem. Third, for Brendon to be able to research your burner, he will need the burner id string - right-click 'MyComputer' > properties > hardware > device manager > click on the CD-ROM icon and quote the id string exactly, character for character, upper or lower case exactly, space for space. Lynn Thanks so much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendon Posted December 20, 2007 Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 Dick, In your duplicate post on somebody else's thread you said The CD Rom identifer is HL-DT-ST_CD-RN_GCE_8160B Now that isn't a valid drive-ID. You seem to have a space or two replaced by underscores, and perhaps a hyphen replaced too, and none of LD's drives are CD-RN. Could you have another look and give me the correct ID, please? Regards, Brendon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdanteek Posted December 20, 2007 Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 First, I'd suggest you remove your email address if it isn't already too later - these boards are trawled by search engines like google, which in turn are searched by spammers "harvesting" email addresses for spamming purposes. Second, unless you have EXACTLY the same hardware setups, you have the same SYMPTOMS, which isn't necessarily the same problem. Third, for Brendon to be able to research your burner, he will need the burner id string - right-click 'MyComputer' > properties > hardware > device manager > click on the CD-ROM icon and quote the id string exactly, character for character, upper or lower case exactly, space for space. Lynn You could of used your god like power to disappear the email address, since the op hasn't been back to do it himself. That kind of work doesn't count as a + 1 tho..... It would of stopped the "harvesting" of his email addresses for spamming purposes, if that was what you were worried about. Another suggestion why not learn to do the burner research yourself, instead of offloading the work to Brendon.. cd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Blumenthal Posted December 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 The insider references that abound in this forum make me less than careful about how I descibed the CD-Rom's id It is HL-DT-CD-RW- GCE- 8160B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynn98109 Posted December 20, 2007 Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 <snip> Another suggestion why not learn to do the burner research yourself, instead of offloading the work to Brendon.. cd Brendon is the only one who can do registry work - which is what is needed. Lynn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendon Posted December 20, 2007 Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 The insider references that abound in this forum make me less than careful about how I descibed the CD-Rom's id It is HL-DT-CD-RW- GCE- 8160B Hi Dick, I'm not sure why someone else wants to act as my secretary or maître d' and tell you what I need, but here I am and I'll try to explain any tech terms I need to use. The ID will be HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8160B I think. Does that check with your ID as seen in Device Manager? Sorry to be so picky, but with computers one wrong character means 'no match'. Anyway, if the drive was working well with your OEM version 5.1.2600 before the crash, the Drive ID should be irrelevant and the drive should work fine with the same software afterwards. There are two questions to ask though. (1) You say you updated the OEM software to 5.1.2600 before the crash. Have you updated it again after you reinstalled, so it is exactly where it was before? If you had previously updated what you installed off the CD, you might need to do that again. (2) Did you have this Real Player installed before? Real Players have been known to cripple ECDC 5, so it might come down to the ORDER that you installed the software. I'd suggest you uninstall both the Real Player and ECDC 5, clean your system with the Roxizap uninstaller tool available here (click here), and then reinstall only Easy CD Creator, and see if that has fixed things. I'll watch for your reply. Regards, Brendon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Blumenthal Posted December 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 Your ordering of the Driver label is correct. I should say that when I upgraded the OEM version Of ECDC 4 I bought the version from Roxio and register it with them. When the hard disk failed, and I installed a larger hard disk, and reinsatalled Windows XP, the windows media player was installed at the same time, I aslo installed Real Player. All of this was prior to installing the 5.2600 versioin of ECDC. My major reason for wanting to use ECDC is because it lets me burn CD at a slower rate that either real player of media player. I am a hi-fi buff and I think the lowere burn rate leads to better fidelity. From what I gather, the newer cdr and or cdrw drive no longer enable you to burn at lower rates of speed. The price here in the US for an external Plextor CDR drive is around $25, which may be a solution tht would avoid navigating registry edits and all of the crazieness that can come from being reasonably savyy, but with a limited amount of confidence in negotiating computer issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Blumenthal Posted December 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 I followed your suggestion, and uninstalled ECDC with the uninstaller you directed me to, and also uninstalled real player. When I started to reinstall ECDC I was told that I had to uninstall it fisrt befire I could reinstall it, and As I was watching the various files being uninstalled on my screen, it seemed that that little program didn't do much. In the event, I reinstalled ECDC, and ran it with out real player on my computer and the result was the same it doesn't recopgnize the cdr driver( It is sort of Ironic) that the intallation program on the Roxio disk is recognized by the driver and proceed to install the program Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ogdens Posted December 20, 2007 Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 I followed your suggestion, and uninstalled ECDC with the uninstaller you directed me to, and also uninstalled real player. When I started to reinstall ECDC I was told that I had to uninstall it fisrt befire I could reinstall it, and As I was watching the various files being uninstalled on my screen, it seemed that that little program didn't do much. In the event, I reinstalled ECDC, and ran it with out real player on my computer and the result was the same it doesn't recopgnize the cdr driver( It is sort of Ironic) that the intallation program on the Roxio disk is recognized by the driver and proceed to install the program Read this by brendon ( http://forums.support.roxio.com/index.php?showtopic=32401) and make sure you follow them excactly, especially step #4. Also re-read post #2 on here, just in case you missed that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Blumenthal Posted December 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 In the end I installed Nero 6 and it works quite nicely, recognized the driver and burns at the drivers speed. For me My problems is solved. I want to thank those people who moderate this forum. You have been very helpful Sincertely Dick Blumenthal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendon Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 Thanks for the update, Dick. The Realplayer uses an Adaptec/Roxio burn engine, which conflicts with the almost identical burn engine in earlier Easy CD Creator, and kills it. Nero doesn't use an Adaptec/Roxio burn engine, so there are no conflicts between them. Regards, Brendon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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