My acer aspire 3680 wont burn cds anymore from itunes or windows media player. it was working fine last week whats wrong?

Try Using Windows Media Player to burn you music

A couple of good free burning programs are CDBurnerXP and InfraRecorder. DVDStyler is a good program if you want to try authoring DVDs to play back in regular DVD players. These programs are all free to download and use, full-function, not shareware or demo versions.

Most Acers use an IPN2220 Wireless card. If yours does, you use XP and your router is using WPA or WPA2 (TKIP or AES) security then you'll need to update the driver by searching for it manually using the Custom button (Hardware) in Windows Update (instead of Express). This driver is not part of XP service pack 2 or 3. In my experience if you don't update to the newest common form of home wireless security (WPA2 AES) then the older formats seem to become unreliable in the way you describe

try nero if no try roxio if no den alcohol 120% if no replace burner

try to update the sound drivers everything will be fine i think some settings of system audio software are not set correctly but it will reset all settings this update thing pls follow the link to update

for VISTA
ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_3680/vista/Drivers/Realtek%20High%20Definition%20Audio%20Driver.zip

for XP

ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_3680/driver/Audio%20Driver%205.10.0.5273.zip

pls let me know if issue is resolved or not

and dorate me FIXYA if i have fixed ur problem

You may have what is called a combo drive...it can play and burn cds but can only play dvds, not burn them. Look at the face plate on the drive and see what is written on it. If it has the following:
Recordable Drive = CD Burner
DVD = DVD Player
RW & DVD = DVD Burner

If recordable drive and DVD is on the drive but no RW, chances are its a combo drive. Keep us posted.

why my windows media burn list isn't burning a cd

click on this link:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/

then click download :)

Hi moose,

Go to Start>Control Panel>System>Hardware tab>Device manager. Click the + by DVD/CD-rom drives, see if your CDrom is listed. If it is, right click on it, and select Uninstall.
Reboot, and WIndows should find it, and reload it. If it doesn't show up, good chance your CDrom is dead.

Good Luck

Let me guess...you tried to install Roxio or another burner, and then it did not work, so you uninstalled it, but now your dvd drive has disappeared. You have tried to update the drivers, but you get a message showing that you have the latest driver, but alas, no dvd drive.

Use the restore point created just prior to installing the burner software and you will be fine. I have fixed 5 Acer 3680 laptops in the last two weeks with this problem. If you want to use Roxio or another burner software, go to the Acer webpage and link from them. Peace and good luck.