Troubleshooting

The disc keeps being ejected.

Has the disc been placed on the disc tray correctly?

The drive does not operate correctly.

Is the disc compatible with the CRW8424E drive?

Is there dust on the disc tray or on the disc itself?

Does the computer have a sufficient power supply?

The CRW8424E has a power consumption of 11W (when reading and writing).

Does your computer have several different CD writing applications installed?

If you use more than one CD writing application simultaneously, the behavior of the drive can become unpredictable.

Is the CRW8424E drive connected to a high-speed device, such as a hard disk drive?

If you connect two devices with quite different speeds using the same cable, operation may become unstable.

The drive ejects or fails to read the disc, or the ON/DISC LED remains lit in orange after the disc has been loaded (meaning that the disc has not been recognized). (→P. 32)

Disconnect the IDE cable from the drive but leave the power cable connected, then load a disc.

There may be problems with the disc itself. If the drive fails to recognize a variety of discs including audio CDs, CD-ROMs and blank CD-R/RW discs (the ON/ DISC LED remains lit in orange after a disc inserted), you should contact your nearest Yamaha dealer.

Errors occur when backing up at 6X or faster speed from a separate CD-ROM drive to the CRW8424E drive.

One possible reason is that the CD-ROM drive is not suitable. Please use a high- speed CD-ROM drive. However, for various reasons, you may still encounter errors even if you are using a 32X or 42X speed CD-ROM drive. Therefore, before writing directly at 6X or faster speed, you should check that it is possible to do so by testing before writing.

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