One night I was using EAC and ripping CDs, and then the next morning when I tried to use EAC again, it just opened up and never tried to read any CD drive. It still does not try to read anything. My CDs work in the computer when I play them in anything else, but EAC does not want to read them to rip them. It was working fine for quite a long time, and then the next morning it suddenly stopped.

I went and checked EAC again today, and I even went to the Configuration Wizard to try to have it read the DVD drives again. I have two DVD drives (One is a DVD-RW drive.) and when I went to the Configuration Wizard, where it normally lists your CD drives you have, all it has is one checkbox (with no text next to it, and neither of my drives are listed, just a checked checkbox with no text next to it that doesn't do anything.

Why did EAC suddenly stop reading? I have been ripping CDs for quite a while before this and it suddenly stopped. I tried deleting the "UpperFilters" and "LowerFilters" as Microsoft suggested for my PC, but now they have not come back and all it's done is now made iTunes say that the registry settings used by the iTunes drivers it uses to import and burn CDs and DVDs are missing, that it can happen as a result of installing other CD burning software, and to reinstall iTunes. I have been using it to rip many CDs lately, but I can still get it to play CDs besides using EAC. Why did EAC give out on me? How can I fix this?

If on Interface tab of EAC Options you have "Installed external ASPI interface" enabled, switch it to "Native Win32 interface for Win NT/2000/XP". If it's the other way around, copy WNASPI32.DLL from Nero folder to EAC folder and set it to use "Installed external ASPI interface" (if you don't have Nero you can download that DLL from its website, and remember to restart EAC).

It works. Wow. It was that easy? I don't know why it was changed in between the time I turned my computer off to go to sleep and the morning...but this fixed it. Thank you so much! =)