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ASPI layer messing up in Nero


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Sorry title should be "Aspi and not ATAPI" oops! Even I mess up sometimes :LOL:

Ok this has been discussed to death in the forums, I looked at some of the older threads and it doesn't seem to have help.

I switch the IDE cable betw my CD-ROM and CDRW drives since I don't have enough IDE channels which I think is why this problem started. I can't so much as burn a CD w/o taking up 100% of the CPU resources and getting a coaster.

Used Aspi check and it gave me a red window saying not properly installed. Fine so I've used the Aspi v4.70 from Adapted and installed it on the system. Rebooted. Got the "green everything okay Window". I start up Nero, get a coaster.

After that didn't work I went to the Nero side, got their wnaspi32.dll file and poped it in the directory. Burn another CD and get another coaster. Used the ASPI check file and got the "Red window" again.

WTF? What gives and how do I fix it?

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go online and look for an aspi destroyer or remover. i had to do the exact same thing. use the destroyer to remove all the files, reboot, then re-install the aspi layer.

should work fine

EDIT: look for a program called ForceAspi. it has an option to remove your old aspi layer. do that and then get the new version from adaptec. i think it's 4.71(2) now.

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Forceaspi deleted everything. Rebooted.

Then I went to Adapted got the lastest aspi driver and installed it. Got the green window in the aspi check utility. Rebooted and now I get the red window.

winapsi.dll and wowpost.exe (??) are still missing.

I'm tempted to just reinstall Windows right now so I can burn everything and nuke windows. I have a Ghosted image of the HDD takes 1/2 hour to restore.

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This is BS, I've just burned 5 coasters today. I'm wiping the drive and restoring from an Image file I'm not wasting anymore time on this. This is just a great example of MS not doing anything right. I should be able to swap the CD drives easily w/o having to worry about DLLs.

I'm done school in 2 weeks. Finishing a paper tonight. After Windows is gone for GOOD! And its not just because of the coasters.

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  DrunkenMaster said:
This is BS, I've just burned 5 coasters today. I'm wiping the drive and restoring from an Image file I'm not wasting anymore time on this. This is just a great example of MS not doing anything right. I should be able to swap the CD drives easily w/o having to worry about DLLs.

I'm done school in 2 weeks. Finishing a paper tonight. After Windows is gone for GOOD! And its not just because of the coasters.

That is a good idea ;)

But why would you swap the CD-RW and CD drive? Cant your CD-RW read CDs?

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  NeoMayhem said:
That is a good idea ;)

But why would you swap the CD-RW and CD drive? Cant your CD-RW read CDs?

Yeah, I know its a great idea. ;) If the Macs weren't so expensive ......

MY CD drive is faster reading the CD's than my RW although the CD is 40x and the RW is 32x they should be about the same but they're not. So when I reinstalled windows from the Ghost image it saves about 10 minutes and a bit more reloading programs and documents.

[ this is wayyy of topic but ] I have a new "theory" about my computer use. If the OS I'm using can't help me fix the problem in 1 hour or less, I'm hosing it. I don't know why noobs put up with calling tech support and spending days on the computer. They don't do the same w/ any other appliance. Computers should really be easy and practical. I'm actually trying to burn a Slackware CD and a Beos one since the ISOs are on my HDD. I can do all my wordprocessing and netsurfing and image viewing :devil: in either.

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