I've been away doing some underwater documentary filming on the west coast of Scotland (sunny, cold with snow falling on the mountain tops - very scenic) so unable to attend to the more pressing problem of what's happened to my MJ's burning problems...
So...
Downloaded the (so-called) new version, (4.72) of the Adaptec ASPI driver and installed. Except that the unzipped file aspi_v472a2 appears to install an old version. Using the Aspi check that came with it, I get:
'ASPI is properly installed and fully operational'.
However, if I use what appears to be a separate, more current, version of Aspi check I get
'ASPI is not properly installed. One or more components have been replaced with older versions of the software.'
On another tack, JimH, in another thread, suggested that the Window settings for the drive may have changed from DMA to PIO. I'm not exactly sure if I understand this correctly but I checked the secondary IDE channel and this was indeed set to PIO. I've now changed this to DMA (the primary IDE is also set to [ultra] DMA).
...all to no avail. I still cannot burn without using the generic driver, when a little less than an hour before the upgrade to 8.0.388 I was happily churning out gapless recordings.
Is there a problem with the current version of the ASPI driver? Am I the only one with this problem? If this is so, why has it occurred at the same time on two separate and very different computers?
I also tried reinstalling MJ (without an uninstall)... no change.
Don't particularly want to install a new version of Windows, particularly as it was functioning correctly before.
Help!! Anyone??!!
I've now completely melted and formed a puddle on the floor