Hi thanks for the reply! Acutally I updated the firmware to 1.07 after i started getting this problem. It didnt seem to help much...Recently I did get a new video card (Leadtek 6800). Also installed winfox 2 which is the software that came with it and rivatuner for overclocking the video card...I dont really see how this would effect the cd burner not being able to burn 32x speed but do you think this can be a issue?