hi ppl.

two problems here and poss a few questions - sorry

1 - on attempting to make a cd with nero, burning about 300mb of word files, it stops, the recorder buffer level drops, kicks out the cd and shows the error message 'power on,reset or bus device reset occured' and it has also show a message when trying again, 'end of user area on this track'.

any ideas people?


2 - i installed Max Payne (game), but as soon as you go to begin the game, it kicks you out back to windows.
The same happened on Vice city too.

?


a few stupid qustions...

whats a:
ethernet controller,
multimedia controller,
ans SM bus controller.

they are all under the heading of other device


thanks in advance for any help


tony

 

ethernet controller is a network card
mutli media controller is either your graphics card or an additional tv type capture card
Sm i'm guessing you have a smart media card reader connected.

click start -> control panel -> system -> device manager -> hardware tab and see if and thing has exclamation mark on it click item try to update drivers

Si

 

i have not got a network card nor a media device reader so im baffled by that

ive just installed my graphics card so ill have a fiddle with that

ive also got 'gameport for soundblaster showing' ?

im confuzzled

thanks very much tho m8

 

Is this under Windows 98?
Sounds like Windows has been installed but all the drivers have not been added later. SM Bus could be the chipset driver, needs to be installed first after Windows has been reinstalled.
Is it an i810/815 motherboard (Pentium 3 or Celeron)?

 

1. what speed are you burning your cdr? maybe drop down to 4x or even 2x just to be safe. and when the cdr is burning, dont use your PC.

2. probably drivers are not properly installed. check in device manager. update the drivers either by downloading them from the internet or from the floppy/cdrom that comes with the peripherals.

 

o/s is XP home, its taken about 4/5 attemps to get it installed

motherboard is a soltek sl 75frn2, if that helps

 

I'd be inclined to first check you've got the latest copy of nero. Second that your burner drivers and/or firmware are up to date. Finally i'd check the configuration of your burner. Is it running off the same IDE cable as the Hard Drive? Do you have another cdrom drive? If you've only got one Hard Drive and One Burner I'd make sure that they're on seperate IDE Bus's both set to master.

This is a known fault with Max Payne as it wasn't designed to work with Windows XP and isn't supported under this OS. Mine works fine but I have heard of others not working. A suggestion I read recently on the net is to uninstall the game and resintall it. Sometimes this fixes it. I think there might be a patch out too.
Not sure about Vice City - this should be fine in XP.

I'm assuming your seeing yellow question marks next to these devices in the device manager? If thats the case their not installed correctly - hence the yellow question mark. Looking at some of your other problems I'd be inclined to check that your Mother Board drivers and BIOS are up to date too.

To get rid of those yellow question marks either install the correct drivers for them or disable them.


Hope any of this helps

Marc

 

On nero I would be tempted to go to file, preferances,cache and see if there is less free disk space allocated then the capacity of the image trying to burn - ie less than 700 Mb. Nero is also fairly memory intensive but its best leaving it on Automatic configuration (Underbuffer tag)- provided you have more than 64Mb of memory in your pc.

Richard

 

hi guys

well after re-installing XP yet again, found the drivers for the board, installed, re activated windows again.....

its all working :-)


Thanks to everyone that helped me sort this thing out.


Max Payne still wishes to not work and kicks me back to windows, yet Vice city is running. (dont look bad either)


Now, yes, not everthing is good, ive still got 'game port for creative' show a !

ive re-installed the drivers, but that did not do it?

so again, any chance of some help please.


many, many thanks

tony

 

Max Payne help HERE

I shouldn't worry about the Creative thingy. If it is just a yellow question mark in device manager and your PC appears to be working ok then i wouldn't worry about it.


Marc

 

Duno if you sorted the CD bruning thing? But if youve got a cut down version of nero, u might find that it will bomb out on long file names....

this has known too work but just use it for back up..

Zip all the content of the folder full of files,

burn the zip ;-) if it all goes on, u'll find it was a file being funny or a strange file name causing u greif.

some things are simple...i'm one of those things! hehe