VS9 No longer Recognizes Sony DVD-Burner

manders12851 · Post by **manders12851** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 7:17 pm

I am experiencing a perplexing problem, related somewhat to problems I see others on this board have experienced, but with a twist. (System: WinXP - Dell Dimension 8250 2.4 Ghtz - 1 Gb memory - 60 mbyte hard drive, etc.)

Problem: Video Studio 9 no longer recognizes my Sony DMU-800A DVD/CD burner. Sound familiar? The twist is that I've recently installed a version of Pinnacle Studio 9 (My apologies Ulead, but I want to use both Ulead and Pinnacle for my video editing!).

I've researched numerous posts regarding the packet writing issue; removed Roxio CD Creator and the NERO 6 which came with the Sony DVD burner; removed and reinstalled the device drivers, removed Pinnalce; removed and reinstalled Video Studio 9.

All the device drivers for the Sony DVD burner are Micorsoft, except one, asapiw2k.sys, which is authored by Pinnacle! I've renamed this file and uninstalled the device. WinXP recognizes the device upon re-boot and claims it installs the correct drivers, but the device is not enabled in the device manager. I had hoped that renaming the file would force WinXP to load the WinXP default driver.

I've checked the Sony and Microsoft websites for new drivers. They state that the drivers are included with Service Pack 2 which I have loaded. The burner works when I have the Nero software installed, but is not recognized by the Ulead softare. I've done a Google search on ASAPIw2k.sys and it appears others are having similar problems with this file.

I suspect that either Pinnacle has overwritten or deleted the original Ulead or Microsoft driver for this device.

Does anyone have any fixes for me? Does anyone know if Ulead has similar device drivers, the names of these file(s) and where they're located so I can replace ASAPIW2k.sys with a similar driver?

My sincere thanks to anyone who may be able to help!

maddrummer3301 · Post by **maddrummer3301** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 3:32 am

manders12851 · Post by **manders12851** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 3:26 pm

MD,

Thanks for the advice, but I've been working on this problem for at least a month, so the last known configuration that worked was probably 6 weeks ago. I've tried to roll back the device driver, but I receive the following message, "no driver files have been backed up for this device."

Does anyone have any more suggestions?

Thanks,

MBA

Post by **Ron P.** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 3:52 pm

The only other thing I can think of is Re-installing the DVD player/burner. Do you have any discs that came with either your system or the burner?

This would require opening your system, unplugging the burner from the IDE cable. Then rebooting, so Windows can see that it is gone. Then plug it back in, Windows should see a new device, and begin to install it. If you have the WinXP discs, and/or a disc that would be specific to the burner is needed to do this.

Last night I also done a Google search on that file. I did find one place where it can be downloaded again, in case the file is corrupt.

http://www.dynamiclink.nl/htmfiles/rfra ... _a/102.htm
http://www.windll.com/sys-a_000.php

Some others about that file I found:

http://www.file.net/process/asapiw2k.sys.html

http://www.cdr-zone.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4719

http://www.cdrinfo.com/forum/tm.asp?m=1 ... =1&#130528

That seems like one nasty little file....

Ron P.

maddrummer3301 · Post by **maddrummer3301** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 5:04 pm

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 10:04 pm

And for anyone readin this who uses Nero 7 and can't find Nero BurnRights in Control Panel, it is in the Nero Smart Start panel under Nero Toolkit.

maddrummer3301 · Post by **maddrummer3301** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 10:24 pm