I have been using the latest build of ImgBurn since it was released without problems but recently I have encountered a problem when there is an error during burning.
A couple of time ImgBurn has reported device not ready on my drives. I tell it to stop burning and not to bother closing the disc but ImgBurn doesn't return control, the disc keeps spinning and the drive door is locked. Also at this point the mouse moves in fits and starts and during shutdown audio is badly broken up - presumably a process related to the problem is hogging CPU time but I can't see anything in the Task Manager. There are no event log entries relating to this.
The only solution is a reboot but I have found that at this point the drives disappear from my BIOS completely and are not present when Windows loads!
The only way to get the drives back is to switch the computer off, unplug it and leave it until capacitors have had time to discharge and then start it up again. The drives reappear and then work fine.
I have repeated this a number of times burning discs with ImgBurn but even though I occasionally get a similar error sometimes with Nero it doesn't lock up the drives and returns control correctly.
Anyone any idea what is going on?
My setup is:
ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe Mobo
AthlonXP 64 X2 4600 processor
2Gb DDR Crucial RAM
Dual GeForce 7300 graphics cards in SLI mode
Creative Audigy 2ZS Platinum
Hauppauge TV PCI card
2 x 160Gb WD Caviar PATA drives (Master and Slave on IDE 0)
2 x Pioneer DVR-111 DVD-R DL drives (Master and Slave on IDE 1)
1 x 320Gb WD Caviar SATA-II drive
Various USB devices (scanner, printer, 3 external Seagate hard drives, multicard reader, keyboard)
Thanks for any help.