HI "Mac".
Been there, done that many times before - allbeit not with car audio.
However, since you point out that your OLD burner worked and your NEW
burner does NOT work, $10 says that the firmware in your new burner is
no good.
I have run across this with both HP and LG cd burners before. Try and
burn an audio CD, and it wont play in a genuine non-computer "CD
player".
Presuming that you are using WinXP:
On your computer, right-clikc on "My Computer" and select "Properties"
Click on the "Hardware" tab
Click the "Device Manager" Button
There should be a linetitled "DVD/CD-ROM Drives".
Click on the "+" to expand it.
Right-click on your Pioeneer drive and select "Properties"
Click on the "Details" tab.
You will see a string appear. On my system the string is this:
"DE\CDROMHL-DT-ST_CD-RW_GCE8525B____________________1.05____________"
The "1.05" is the firmware revision of the firmware in my LG 8525B CD
burner.
Now that you know the revision of the firmware in your Pioneer burner,
go to the Pioneer web site and see if you can download a newer version
of firmware. If you cannot download one, then contact tech support
directly and tell them your model and firmware revision, and that you
are having inter-player compatibility problems.
Again $10 says that there is a firmware upgrade that will fix this.
HP actually deliberately, knoingly, and willfully shipped players
which they knew did not work properly to keep the cash-flow going
until they could make a patch available. This happened on a couple of
machines here at work years ago. When I contacted them, they admitted
that they had "found a problem", and provided me with a firmware
upgrade and installation instructions at "no charge".
I had this problem with and LG drive in the past, and another fellow
on the car audio newsgroup had the exact same problem. He was more
frustrated than you are, and whene did as I suggested and installed
thelatest firmware from the LG site, it started working properly!
WARNING: Updating the firmware of most CD drives is a risky and trick
business. Not sure about Pioneer, but the LG drives MUST be installed
on the PRIMARY IDE channel, and MUST be the "Master" drive. I STRONGLY
recommend that you make DOS boot disks, download the firmware upgrade,
and then remove all hard drives from the system. Boot to DOS, and THEN
flash your firmware. After this, reconnect your hard drive and boot
the system.
This is the voice of experience! Having done this for the first time,
the upgrade software that was provided by LG actually trashed my hard
drive partitions! Fortunately, being the anal sort that I am, I had
antoher drive with ghosted back-ups, so I only lost a days work as a
result.
Double check the hardware device manager to make sure the WinXP system
registers the updated firmware revision.
Then burn and finalize an audio CD-R. THEN try that in your car deck.
Again $10 says this will work if you have done all correctly.
Please let me know how it goes.
On 16 Apr 2007 14:37:30 GMT, Mac Cool <Mac.RemoveThis@2cool.com> wrote:
>I have a '99 Sebring jxi and it doesn't want to play audio cdr burned with
>my new Pioneer 111D burner; it will play audio cdrs burned with my old
>burner.
>
>I've tried computer groups, software groups and now here. No one seems to
>have heard of a similiar problem before. Any ideas, similiar experiences? >> Stay informed about: Trouble playing burned audio CDRs in Sebring 
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