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What are the power supplies rated at?
The system configuration is as listed?  No sound device
or any other peripheral devices other than listed.?
Any info about the system the drive was successfully used on?

My guess is either some device is pulling more amps than it's rating
indicates, or the power supply is not providing the correct voltage.

The CDRW does tend to pull more amps when writing to a CDRW disc than when
writing to a CD-R disc.

Since you are running Win95, and have EZ CD Creator, then perhaps trying
ASPI32.EXE from adaptec will give you an updated ASPI layer that may have an
impact on the drive's performance.

The FIC 503+ has a VIA chipset, usually the updated drivers have a positive
effect.  This board has been rumored to have a minimally rated voltage
regulator that may have some impact on your situation.

I am not familiar with the Amptron board to make a guess without the model
#.

This is a puzzler.

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"Tom Masterson" <tommast@az.com> wrote in message
news:9ki1is$ktf$1@news.creativelabs.com...
> Boy do I have a strange one. I cannot format or write to my disk, but the
> disk reads just fine. I've tried different media, just about any different
> setting on both the motherboard and Windows 98 I could think of, new
> busmaster drivers. Checked ASPI layers, tried TREE different burning
> softwares, and spent HOURS on the net checking forum, knowledge bases, and
> tech sites for a similar problem - NOTHING like it is mentioned! Yes, the
> drive is ok - had it checked at a local computer service place.
>
> My machines (yep tried it on BOTH) are home built with AMD K6/2 -
>
> Machine #1 (the one I WANT to use the drive with)
> FIC 503+ motherboard with K6/2 - 350
> 96 megs of ram
> Fujitzu 3.1gig harddrive
> Intense 3dVoodoo PCI video
> no modem
>
> Machine #2
> Amptron motherboard with K6/2 - 500
> 256megs ram
> 13 gig WD harddrive
> TNT AGP video
> US DRIVES 24X CD rom
>
> BOTH machines are running Windows 98 v4.10.98
> I've even tried a fresh, reformatted cleaninstall on Machine #1 of
Windows.
> NEW busmaster drivers
> Current BIOS
> Tried different cables
> Different bus - main and secondary
> Tried CD-RW as slave and master to BOTH CDrom and Harddrive and separate
> from each.
>
> FYI - same happened with another brand drive (I returned that drive to try
> Creative 8432) other drive was a NEC - NR-7500a
>
> Easy CD reports an "Illegal Request" when attempting format.
> Prassi abCD reports "Formatting error"
>
> YIKES!!! Now what????????????????????
>
> Thanks
>
> Tom
>
>