Things to check, if a new burner won’t burn:
- Some motherboards require that an IDE burner be master, not slave. The symptom is that Windows will call it a CD-ROM only, not a burner.
- Motherboard chipset drivers need to be updated.
- The Windows XP built-in CD burning library, appears to lack the ability to wait for very fast burners (e.g. today, 52X), to spin down. So when a built-in burn attempt is made on such a burner, the whole machine is hung during the completion process, after the data is put out. You’ll need to use ImgBurn or something else more current than the XP builtin.