Windows crash to “blue screen of death” on multi-session CD/DVD

Hello,
I have problems with CD/DVD ROM.
Normally it was able to read any CD/DVD before when I had Windows XP Pro SP2
installed.
Now after I reinstalled the OS and decided to go with Windows XP Media
Center Edition, my optical drive can’t read any of multi-session CD or DVD,
thus crashing Windows to “Blue Screen of Death” every time I place in a
multi-session CD or DVD. Besides, even if it sometimes accepts a
multi-session CD or DVD, still it can display only the last session burned,
so I have to access other previous sessions via tools like IsoBuster. Other
than that it can read fine any burned CD or DVD.
I would like some help from any of you with the drivers or anything.
System specifications are:
Laptop: Acer TravelMate 290
Optical Drive: QSI CDRW/DVD SBW-242, DVD:8x, CD:24x/10x/24x
OS: Windows XP Pro SP2 Media Center Edition
Thanks a lot in advance!

"az0000000" <az00...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Not truly a Media Center question.

The ability to read multisession CDs that are not finalized is largely
dependant on the CD/DVD burner software you had installed at the time you
created the multisession CDs.

Windows Media center 2005 is based on Windows XP SP2 Professional. So if you
have MCE 2005, you have the same OS you had before, But if you went with
Vista Premium, then you have a completely different OS.

Windows XP should be able to read the disks.
Check in Device Manager for any yellow or red marks on the CD/DVD drive, if
you find any, remove the device (right click select uninstall) and reboot
the computer.

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Hi,
For many years I’ve been using Nero and other computers including the one
used to burn CDs can read multi-session CDs fine, only my laptop crashes upon
inserting that CD in to the drive. Would be nice to know how to completely
wipe out CD ROM’s drivers and install them clean...

Is is possible that the CD/DVD drive died?
Do you have another Drive to try?

I use Nero 7 Ultra Edition with no problems on MCE 2005 with Rollup2 and on
Windows XP SP2 Home.

I have seen CD drives that will not read disks that are not closed.
But if that drive has been reading the disks, I would strongly suspect the
Drive has gone belly up.

You can have Windows reload the CD driver by removing the CD drive in Device
Manager and then rebooting.

If you have Nero installed, you may then have to reinstall Nero.

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Hello again,
So I decided to come back with BSOD error info, so may be anyone can suggest
a solution based on it.
Thanks much.

2 example of BSOD error:

1:
[code]CDFS_FILE_SYSTEM

STOP 0x00000026 (0x000401F4, 0xB22F95E0, 0XB22F92DC, 0XF9A261DA)

DVD43.SYS - address F9A261DA base at F9A24000, datestamp 41AC1EAD[/code]

2:
[code]0X0000008E (0XC0000005, 0XF9A261DA, 0XBA7BD678, 0X00000000)

DVD43.SYS - address F9A261DA base at F9A24000, datestamp 41AC1EAD[/code]

Uninstall DVD43.sys or the program that installed it. Google for what
used it, find that on your system, and uninstall from there....

On 2007-12-05 11:00:02 -0600, az0000000

Done that and no BSOD so far, so thanks much for the advice!