DL'd latest version and can't seem to get EAC to show tracks. Actually, to show there is even a cd in the drive, either of them (one is dvd-rom).

Thinking it might have been ASPI related, even though EAC is supposed to be ASPI-less now, I installed 4.7x from adaptec. No luck.

I even tried the wizard to see if it could set up EAC. Nothing.

Next, try .94(?), and this one doesn't pick up that a disc is in the drive either.

The computer is new and has not had either version installed until a few days ago. Most associations are set, as best as I can remember, the same as old machine. There are a few programs installed that came as a bundle with the box. One being 'RecordNow' from Veritas. I don't think it is being invasive and trying to bump EAC, or any other app, from using the drive. So I'm hesitant to uninstall it because I'd like to keep it around just to see what it does. Although a sys-restore point could be made for this if necessary.

Has anyone experienced something similar with EAC? I find it funny that it cannot see a disc in the drives. (It does show both drives model #'s correctly)

Do you have any previous EAC version settings (e.g.; 0.9 Beta 4) in the Windows registry, or in the EAC folder?

No. Install was fresh.

Seems like the only thing that cannot detect a cd in the drive is EAC. MC, WMP, dbpoweramp, fb2k, RecordNow all pick up there is a cd in there. None are associated with the drive or cds at this time.

Not sure about the new EAC, but before you had to tell EAC to use an external ASPI. The ASPI dll should be in the EAC folder or in the Windows System32 folder.

Double checked. ASPI dll's were not in EAC folder. Copied and pasted to that folder. Still not showing anything.

This is kind of frustrating. EAC never gave me any grief before.

hello.

for a while i have the same problem - and now it works. what have i done? well i read, that aspi 4.7 doesn't work well - use aspi 4.6, it's better. or try to find forceaspi or "aspi!". i installed aspi new, but it dont work, so i clean the registry and make a new installation of eac - and it work!

I had a similar problem with EAC and Liteon LTR-48246S. EAC couldn't even detect that the drive existed. At that time I was using Adaptec's ASPI 4.71a2.

I installed ForceASPI 1.7 (nothing more, I didn't remove previous ASPI, EAC and didn't touch the registry) and voilá, it works perfectly.

Edit:

Well, not perfectly. EAC has some weird issues with recent Liteon drives, but at least it recognizes it now

Yeah, Adaptec's ASPI 4.7x caused me problems too, like installing it, rebooting, and EAC still wouldn't run. The Adaptec ASPI Check program is absolutely useless if you install 4.7x because even if the installation is broken it will still display that everything is alright. ForceASPI which some may see as being obselete since it installs 4.60 (1021) still does the trick though by installing the ASPI driver correctly -- at least it does on Win98.

4.6 is obsolete, forceaspi is obsolete.

See this HA thread or this HA thread

ForceASPI 1.7 cured the problem. Thanks all for your help.

Now, I can finally see what this thing can do!

Edit - Additional:

Wow! Talk about a leap forward. What used to be a painfully slow endeavor (encoding) is now so fast it outruns the extraction. 2 instances of external compression windows just fly. Ain't technology great...er,when you get it to do what you want. (See above post by yours truly)

Again thanks.