No joy. I tried disabling the Win XP built-in burning. No other CD burners installed.Then, in Media Center I selected an existing playlist, right-click, send to D: (the CD burner). Click on Burn CD in the action window. Queue shows up fine. Click "Burn" - half-drawn progress dialog, a few flickers of disk activity, then lockup. Mouse cursor not moving, no ctrl-alt-del, no disk activity.
Thinking that this might have something to do with new high-speed drive, restarted, then changed the maximum speed in MC10 to 24x. Went to same playlist, right-click, send to D:. Some flicker of disk activity, the message "Initializing writer" in the status bar, then complete lockup.
Media Center 10.0.16 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\
Microsoft Windows XP Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 2570 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 1014 MB, Free - 750 MB
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1276 / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1233 (xpsp2.030604-1804) / wnaspi32.dll: N/A
Ripping / Drive D: Copy mode:Normal CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: No / Calc replay gain: Yes / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: No / Play sound after ripping: No
Burning / Drive D: PLEXTOR DVDR PX-708A Addr: 1:0:0 Speed:24 MaxSpeed:40 BurnProof:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: No
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None